Epic and Google have a secret $800 million Unreal Engine and services deal

A judge is questioning whether Epic Games and Google are settling their long-running antitrust fight partly because of a ...

Why Gore Verbinski thinks Unreal Engine is to blame for bad movie CGI

There’s also an aesthetic critique running through his comments. Verbinski argues that Unreal Engine brings with it a ...

Epic responds to director Gore Verbinski's claims that Unreal Engine is making movie CGI worse: 'aesthetic and craft comes from artists, not software'

"It’s inaccurate for anyone in the industry to claim that one tool is to blame," said Patrick Tubach, VFX supervisor at Epic ...
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Unreal Engine Makes Films Look Too Much Like Games, Pirates Of The Caribbean Director Says

As Verbinski explained, Unreal Engine 5's approach to light and its application in scenes doesn't work with films aiming for a photorealistic presentation. The filmmaker says that this tends to create ...

"I should know," says VFX supervisor who worked on Gore Verbinski's trilogy.

Fortnite maker Epic Games has hit back at a claim by Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski that the company's ...
Digital Production

CardCutter turns texture into Nanite meshes

CardCutter Blender addon converts mask textures into Nanite-ready meshes for Unreal Engine foliage and decal workflows.
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Ark Survival Ascended's Unreal Engine 5.7 upgrade is a "magic bullet" for performance and opens the door for new platforms

For Studio Wildcard's co-founder and development director, Jeremy Stieglitz, there's a "golden trio" of elements that need to come together to lure fans from its ageing but adored Ark Survival Evolved ...
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VIDEO: Man finds exotic python in SUV engine in Tennessee

What a Tennessee man thought was car trouble turned out to be a secret passenger under his hood — a long, yellow python.But this type of snake isn't native to the U.S. Several days ago, Jesse Hodge ...