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#Epic Games

Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine

Nvidia’s Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine, Designed To Simplify Animating Avatars, Enters Early Access

Developers can now access the suite of cloud-native AI microservices that make it easier to build and deploy avatars at scale.

By Jamie Lang | 4 weeks ago

Fortnite Fortnite

Epic Games Agrees To Pay $520 Million Settlement For Violating Child Gamers’ Privacy, Misleading Microtransactions

Epic is accused of violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and engaging in manipulative market practices.

By Jamie Lang | 1 month ago

Epic Games Launches Unreal Engine 5.1 With New And Refined Features For Animation And VFX Work

According to the team at Epic Games, with UE 5.1 “we’re honing in on the artist, and how the artist can use this tool.”

By Jamie Lang | 3 months ago

Mush-Mush & the Mushables

Explore Real-Time Animation Practices In Epic’s Free Ebook ‘The Animation Field Guide’

The Animation Field Guide is a detailed how-to manual in the techniques of creating animation in real-time using Unreal Engine.

By Jamie Lang | 7 months ago

Fortnite

Sony, Lego Investment Group Make $2B Investment In Epic Games’ Metaverse Plans

The three companies will work together to “create new social entertainment exploring the connection between digital and physical worlds.”

By Jamie Lang | 10 months ago

Epic Games, Spire

Epic Games Leads $20 Million Funding Round For Spire Animation Studios

Spire will use Epic’s Unreal Engine to produce animated features and expand into the metaverse.

By Alex Dudok de Wit | 1 year ago

Super Giant Robot Brothers!

Netflix And Reel FX Tease ‘Super Giant Robot Brothers!’, An Animated Series Made With Unreal Engine

“Brave” director Mark Andrews is directing the new series.

By Alex Dudok de Wit | 1 year ago

Chase and Catch

Epic Has Awarded Grants To Almost 400 Projects This Year

The $100M fund promotes use of Unreal Engine, which is increasingly core to animation production and the development of the metaverse.

By Alex Dudok de Wit | 1 year ago

Fortnite

Epic Pulls Chinese Version Of ‘Fortnite,’ Offers No Explanation

The move comes amid growing regulation of gaming in China.

By Alex Dudok de Wit | 1 year ago

The Eye

‘Fortnite’ Is Hosting A Halloween-Themed Animation Festival This Week

This is the game’s third animation festival of the year.

By Alex Dudok de Wit | 1 year ago

Chromosphere Yuki

Real-Time Rendering For Animation: What’s The Catch?

What’s the big deal with real-time rendering? Sure, you can shorten production time by cutting out long waits for rendering, but there’s a whole lot more to it than that.

By Cartoon Brew Connect | 1 year ago

Malloe

Apply To This Free Unreal Engine Course From Epic Games And Escape Studios

The course, which starts on July 26, is open to those with at least two years’ industry experience in Europe.

By Cartoon Brew Connect | 2 years ago

Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow

See First Images From Spain’s ‘Inspector Sun And The Curse Of The Black Widow’

The family film, which is set in a world where humans and insects co-exist, riffs on classic detective stories.

By Alex Dudok de Wit | 2 years ago

Fortnite

Epic Games Secures $1B in Funding, Including $200M More From Sony

The company says it is now worth $28.7 billion.

By Alex Dudok de Wit | 2 years ago

Metahumans

Epic Unveils Metahuman Tool For Creating Highly Realistic Virtual Beings

The tool promises “to take real-time digital human creation from weeks or months to less than an hour.”

By Alex Dudok de Wit | 2 years ago

"Gilgamesh"

‘Fortnite’ Creator Epic Games Awards Its First Film Grant To Animated Feature ‘Gilgamesh’

The feature will be made with Unreal, Epic’s widely used real-time engine.

By Alex Dudok de Wit | 2 years ago

Epic's Virtual Production Primer

Epic Games Launches Free Online Course In Basics Of Virtual Production

Want to learn a useful new skill: try virtual production.

By Alex Dudok de Wit | 2 years ago

Epic Games Has Created The Ultimate Guide To Virtual Production

The Virtual Production Field Guide provides an overview of “one of the biggest technology disruptors of the visual medium.”

By Alex Dudok de Wit | 4 years ago

SIGGRAPH 2019 Offers Biggest Offering of Immersive Content Ever

Among the offerings is the world premiere of Disney’s second vr project, “A Kite’s Tail.”

By Alex Dudok de Wit | 4 years ago

Digital Actors: Are They Ready For Their CG Close-ups?

With “Alita: Battle Angel” poised for release, we take a look at the state of play in photorealistic cg humans.

By Ian Failes | 4 years ago

A Virtual Production Explainer: What It Is, And What It Could Mean For Your Project

Cartoon Brew makes sense of the virtual production phenomenon, and provides resources that filmmakers can use to start experimenting with virtual production techniques.

By Ian Failes | 4 years ago

How The Mill Is Embracing Real-time For Character Animation

The Mill is developing new ways of creating relatable and appealing character animation in real-time.

By Ian Failes | 5 years ago

How One Animator Is Making His Own CG Series With Unreal Engine

Peter Monga shares the lessons he’s learned creating “Morgan Lives in a Rocket House” on his own with the Unreal game engine.

By Ian Failes | 5 years ago

Upcoming Animated Series ‘Zafari’ Is Being Rendered Completely With The Unreal Game Engine

“Zafari'”director David Dozoretz on how his animated tv series is using real-time rendering – and the new possibilities that tv creators have with real-time rendered CG series.

By Ian Failes | 5 years ago

How Real-time Rendering Is Changing VFX And Animation Production

Real-time tools are giving animation and vfx creators more flexibility in generating cg worlds and characters.

By Ian Failes | 5 years ago

SIGGRAPH 2017 Preview: Real-Time Projects in Animation, VR, and Gaming

A run-down of the Real-Time Live SIGGRAPH projects, including a focus on an interactive 3d watercolor stylization tool.

By Ian Failes | 6 years ago

Inside Peter Jackson’s New Augmented Reality Studio

We go behind the scenes of Wingnut AR’s tabletop augmented reality experience made with Apple’s new ARKit.

By Ian Failes | 6 years ago

Unreal Encourages Filmmakers To Use Its Game Engine

Unreal’s game development toolset is now free for filmmakers and artists.

By Darryn King | 8 years ago

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