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Creating the John Wick-inspired mocap for SPINE - and why Unreal Engine 5 isn't always best

Creating animation for video games has become reliant on motion capture, bit SPINE developer Nekki has gone further than most, having created its own app, called Cascadeur. This adds to a workflow ...
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Making it in Unreal: how Giant Squid has recreated Abzû's fluid movement in The Pathless

Giant Squid has a way of making its characters glide. Even if you're playing with the world's chunkiest controller or fattest thumbs, Abzû's underwater diver smooths any clumsy input into beautiful, ...
Inverse

New iOS app for Unreal Engine gives avatars the ability to mimic your facial expressions

Thanks, Apple — If you've ever used Apple's Memojis then you've seen how the iPhone is already capable of mapping facial expressions onto cartoon avatars. The iPhone's TruthDepth camera technology is ...
Ars Technica

Epic looks outside of gaming for new uses of Unreal Engine

SAN FRANCISCO—At a GDC keynote presentation Wednesday, Epic Games' Tim Sweeney showed off plenty of Unreal Engine-powered games and highlighted how developers would soon be able to build those games ...
Engadget

Fox Sports’ new virtual studio runs on Unreal Engine

It's no secret that Epic Games has enabled a number of gaming studios to create more-realistic visuals with its Unreal game engine. Since its debut in 1998, powering the first-person shooter Unreal, ...
Ars Technica

Mario recreated in Unreal Engine 4: Games have an uncanny valley, too.

Aryok Pinera, an intrepid 3D artist who goes by the handle Aryoksini, has recreated Mario in Unreal Engine 4... and it's actually not half bad! Before you get too excited, you can't actually download ...