Cartoon Brew

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

The highly anticipated release of Unreal Engine (UE) 5.1 is here, and with it come some pretty spectacular changes for those working in animation and vfx. UE 5’s impact on animation proved undeniable.
Cartoon Brew

Praxinos Is Looking For Beta Testers For Its Unreal Engine Animation Software, Odyssey

Two years ago, Cartoon Brew interviewed Praxinos, a French company with the ambitious project of making a 2d animation software with Unreal Engine. In this update interview, co-founders Elodie Moog ...
TweakTown

Unreal Engine 5.7 preview now out with production-ready Procedural Content Generation Framework

Epic Games says that one of the big features inside of Unreal Engine 5.7 is Procedural Content Generation Framework (PCG) in ...
AppleInsider

Unreal Engine releases an app that uses Face ID to capture 3D facial animations

Unreal Engine's new Live Link Face app brings big-budget movie-style effects to the iPhone, with Face ID able to animate 3D characters in real time or capture face tracking data for later use. #UE4 ...
Game Rant

Hellblade 2 Shows Off Incredible Facial Animations Using Unreal Engine 5

A new video released by Ninja Theory as part of Epic’s State of Unreal keynote at GDC 2023 shows that the developer hasn’t been resting on its laurels despite the infrequent updates on Hellblade 2's ...
Game Rant

Unreal Engine Devs Can Capture Real-Time Facial Animations with a Phone App

With the next generation of console gaming on the horizon, there can be no doubt that game developers are finding new ways to push technology to its limit. Epic Games is no stranger to this concept ...
GamesRadar+

Epic's Unreal Engine iOS app can capture high-quality facial animations in real-time

Epic Games has released a new app for iOS that can be used to capture and stream high-quality facial animations in real-time from your iPhone directly onto characters in Unreal Engine. The Live Link ...
Pocket Gamer.biz

Cascadeur receives $50,000 Epic MegaGrant to develop dedicated Unreal Engine Live Link plugin

D animation software Cascadeur has received an Epic MegaGrant of $50,000 to support the development of a dedicated Unreal ...
Carscoops

Volvo To Use Photorealistic Animations In Its Infotainment Systems Starting With New XC90

Volvo announced that it will become the first European automaker to use the Unreal Engine to develop its Human Machine Interface (HMI). The technology will first be available on the all-electric XC90 ...
IGN

Everything Announced at State of Unreal: Fortnite's Unreal Editor Revealed and More

At GDC 2023, Epic Games held a State of Unreal event, where the company unveiled the latest updates for Unreal Engine. We got a fresh look at some new tools coming soon to creators, as well as how ...
Forbes

Epic’s iOS App Captures Facial Animations In Real-Time For Unreal Engine

The company behind Unreal Engine and popular battle royale game Fortnite, has created a new motion capture app for iOS called Live Link Face. The new app, by Epic Games, is designed to let developers ...