Unreal Engine VFX Master Classes Coming to Los Angeles
Free course Jan. 20 at Gnomon School of VFX will cover building and optimizing CG worlds for real-time performance.
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Technology Sneak Peek: Python in Unreal Engine
At Autodesk University, Unreal Engine is providing a glimpse of what to expect from Datasmith, as the company tackles the challenges of importing CAD data into Unreal Engine.
Vicon Helps Framestore Create Crowds for ‘Blade Runner 2049’
Live mocap link from London to Montreal employing Vicon’s Shōgun and Epic’s Unreal Engine helps artists produce a digital crowd in less than 24 hours.
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The Industry’s Best and Brightest All Set to Share Their VIEW
The 18th VIEW Conference in Turin, Italy gets ready to present its biggest program ever of top animation, VFX, VR and game industry experts.
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Unreal Engine Powers The Chainsmokers’ Paris.VR Experience
Viewers see the song differently each time they experience it through the VR app, which debuted earlier this year at Sony Music’s Lost in Music event.
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Epic Games Releases Real-Time Compositing Tool Composure
New compositing tool inside Unreal Engine 4.17 enables users to composite real world images or video footage with CG imagery in real time.
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Couldn’t Make It to SIGGRAPH? Watch the Epic Games User Group Presentation Online
Epic Games showcases advancements in virtual, augmented and mixed reality as well as the impact of the Cloud, AI and machine learning on production pipelines, at is first-ever User Group meetup at SIGGRAPH 2017.
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Allegorithmic Unveils Substance Painter 2017.2 and More at Substance Days Hollywood 2017
Allegorithmic unveils Live Link from Substance Painter to Unity, Substance Automation Toolkit, Substance Source in Unity, Substance Source in Unreal Engine 4, and more at the second annual Substance Days Hollywood held July 27-29 at Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Games & Animation.
HP Rockets to Mars with VR Experience
HP teams with partners on ‘HP Mars Home Planet,’ a global co-creation project to imagine life on Mars, as part of their newly announced VR strategy focusing on enabling brands to reimagine how they innovate and engage customers.
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SIGGRAPH 2017 Concludes Strong in Los Angeles
SIGGRAPH 2017 Computer Animation Festival award winners “Song of a Toad,” “John Lewis Buster the Boxer” and “Garden Party” were presented their statues amid a conference that covered important advances and collaborations in animation, visual effects, AR/VR and robotics.
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Epic Games Demonstrates New Unreal Workflow at SIGGRAPH 2017
Datasmith, which will be available as a private beta in August (unrealengine.com/beta), is designed to help artists and designers simplify the process of importing data into Unreal Engine from over 20 CAD/DCC sources, including Autodesk 3ds Max.
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‘Fortnite’ Trailer Rewrites Traditional CG Workflows with Unreal Engine
Detailed look at the making of the three-minute ‘Fortnite’ trailer assembled, lit, color corrected and rendered in Unreal Engine will be presented at the Unreal Engine User Group meeting during SIGGRAPH 2017.
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Foundry Launches Modo 11.1 with Host of New and Enhanced Features
Innovative features in latest instalment of the Modo 11 series include a client-server bridge to Unreal Engine 4 and more.
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Chris Edwards in Beijing - Part 2: Virtual Visionary
THE THIRD FLOOR founder continues to champion virtual production and lead the charge into virtual reality.
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Epic Games, The Mill & Chevrolet Unveil Real-time Film at GDC 2017
The Unreal Engine, virtual production technology, and an iconic brand come together in ‘The Human Race,’ a real-time short film and AR presentation.
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Graphine’s Granite SDK 4.0 Now Available
Latest version boasts faster workflows for large development teams and a second streaming system to handle all texture content efficiently.
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Epic Unveils Free ‘Robo Recall’ VR Game for Oculus Touch
“Spiritual successor” to ‘Bullet Train,’ the critically-acclaimed Virtual Reality demo revealed at Oculus Connect 2 coming in early 2017 free for all Oculus Rift owners.
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Epic Games Awards $100,000 in New Round of Unreal Dev Grants
Six recipients awarded a total of $100,000 in the latest round of $5 million program created to aid outstanding developers with no-strings-attached funding for their projects created in and around Unreal Engine 4.
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NVIDIA Releases Mod Editor for VR Funhouse in Epic Games Launcher
NVIDIA releases the full source code for VR Funhouse along with a brand-new mod editor called the VR Funhouse Mod Kit now available through the Epic Games launcher.
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Unreal Engine 4.13 Now Available
Release includes several new rendering features, Alembic support for importing vertex animations, dynamic shadow optimization for mobile, and improvements to the VR Editor; non-linear cinematic editor Sequencer also receives major upgrades.
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IKinema Banishes ‘Invisible Man Syndrome’ for VR Animation Gameplay
New extension for IKinema RunTime simplifies VR workflow, enabling developers to easily merge motion capture with Virtual Reality.
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Unreal Engine 4 Powers Real-Time Cinematography at SIGGRAPH 2016
Groundbreaking real-time cinematography demonstration from Epic Games receives the SIGGRAPH award for Best Real-Time Graphics and Interactivity at Real Time Live!
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WATCH: Epic Games' Kim Libreri and Ray Davis Talk VR with Unreal Engine at FMX 2015
Kim Libreri, CTO, and Ray Davis, Unreal Engine GM, from Epic Games, talk about opportunities for Unreal Engine in VR.
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Epic Games Unveils ‘Bullet Train’ at Oculus Connect 2
The latest Virtual Reality experience from Epic Games delivers world-scale VR gunfight experience with gameplay that weaves in and out of bullet time.
Faceware Live Gets Unreal
The new Faceware Live plugin brings instant, real-time facial animation to Unreal Engine users.
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