Tag: Epic Games
Epic Games Acquires Quixel, Opens Megascans Library for UE Use
Kicking off Unreal Academy London, Epic Games announced the acquisition of Quixel, creator of the world’s largest photogrammetry asset library and bundled toolset, with...
Unreal Engine Marketplace Giving Away $4M of ‘Infinity Blade’ Assets
Epic Games has announced a year-long extension of featured free content via the Unreal Engine Marketplace, providing assets, tools and plugins to accelerate the...
Tech Reviews: November 2019
Wacom’s Cintiq 22
Wacom keeps makin’ things, and I just keep lovin’ ’em. The latest Cintiq 22 is the “prosumer” version of the Cintiq Pro...
Alienbrain 2019 Arrives with UE Integration, Subscription Pricing
Alienbrain Ltd. (U.K.) has announced the release of Alienbrain 2019, the latest iteration of its popular version control software for artists and designers. Alienbrain...
Gamescom Opening Night Sets Hideo Kojima, 15+ Publishers for Live Streamed Showcase
Gamescom, the world’s largest event for video and computer games, and producer Geoff Keighley (The Game Awards) announced the first details of gamescom: Opening...
Epic Games Unveils the Future of Production with Unreal Engine 4.23
Epic Games is at the SIGGRAPH 2019 conference in Los Angeles this week to reveal Unreal Engine features that are changing the art of...
SIGGRAPH: Vicon Shogun Delivers Real-Time, Full-Body Tracking to the Fingertips
Vicon has announced the upcoming release of Shōgun 1.3, the latest addition to its industry-leading performance-capture platform for entertainment, including games and VFX. Shōgun...
Top 10 Tech Tools @ SIGGRAPH
Centered around the theme of “Thrive,” the 46th edition of SIGGRAPH is right around the corner, featuring the latest innovations in computer graphics and...
Epic Games Bestows $1.2M MegaGrant on Blender Foundation
Epic Games (Fortnite, Unreal Engine), as part of its $100 million Epic MegaGrants program, is awarding the Blender Foundation $1.2 million in cash to...
SIGGRAPH ’19 Tackles Facial Animation, AI, Game Ethics & Real-Time Production
SIGGRAPH 2019 has detailed its Real-Time Live! and Games programming for the upcoming conference in L.A. (July 28-Aug. 1), which will shine a light...
SIGGRAPH 2019 Dives Deep with Biggest Ever Immersive Program
The SIGGRAPH 2019 Immersive Pavilion and VR Theater are set to roll into L.A. this summer with the conference’s largest selection of immersive programming...
FMX Adds Bobby Chiu, Jakob Schuh, Hal Hickel to Informative Tracks
The FMX Conference in Stuttgart (April 30-May 3) will be investigating the content creation process in sessions on turning indie concepts into international IP,...
Stuttgart: ITFS Ventures in VR, ‘Spies in Disguise’ at FMX
New technologies for the creative industry will be under the spotlight at the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS; www.itfs.de/en), which will introduce...
LIMA Unveils 2019 International Licensing Awards Nominees
The Licensing Industry Merchandisers’ Association has announced its 154 nominees for the 2019 International Licensing Awards. LIMA’s nominees were selected from a panel of...
FMX 2019: ‘Aquaman,’ ‘Fantastic Beasts 2,’ ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Join Lineup
The 2019 FMX Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Immersive Media (April 30 - May 3, Stuttgart) is quickly approaching, but there are still...
GDC: Epic Games Announces $100M MegaGrants Initiative
During the “State of Unreal” GDC opening session Wednesday, Epic Games launched Epic MegaGrants, committing $100,000,000 to assist game developers, media and entertainment creators,...
Autodesk’s Shotgun Supercharges Pipelines with Jira & After Effects Integration
Shotgun will be at GDC (March 18-22, San Francisco) to announce two new integrations for the game development community: Jira Bridge and Adobe After...
Unity Awarded Its First Tech Emmy for Animation Software
Cutting-edge tech solutions creator Unity has been awarded its first Technology & Engineering Emmy Award, for 3D Engine Software for the Production of Animation,...
Event Preview: VIEW Conference 2018
The weather is starting to turn, and that means that the fall market & festival season is nearly upon us! One of the highlights...
News Bytes: Final ‘Digimon Adventure’ Flick, ‘Transformers’ Movie Event Expands, postPerspective Impact Awards, & More
’Frozen 2’ Adds Oscar-Nominated ‘Hidden Figures’ Writer Allison Schroeder
Co-director Jennifer Lee will continue to be lead writer for the sequel, as well as tackling...
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