NEWS
Broadcast & Live Events Sizzle Reel 2022 | Unreal Engine
Virtual sets, CG avatars, unforgettable sports graphics—broadcast & live events companies are blazing a trail, creating magic moments for audiences with real-time technology. Have a look at notable projects in our new Sizzle Reel, especially if you are working with live XR, virtual concerts, or LED volumes.
The Broadcast and Live Events Field Guide: a resource for real-time production teams
If you’d like to learn more about real-time technology for Broadcast & Live Events, check out our new field guide. Industry experts have weighed in on how you can start building it into your productions and make a few magic moments people won’t forget.
Unreal Challenge: Creep It Real
There is still time to get creepy–we’re at the halfway point with our latest Unreal Challenge: Creep It Real. Check out the event page for full details on how you can compete to win cash, software, swag, and other treats!
FOX Sports kicks off the NFL season with a groundbreaking multicam virtual production studio
It’s the start of a new NFL season. FOX Sports’ pregame show has been an integral part of game day for almost three decades, with previews, analysis, and panel discussions that have won four Emmy Awards.
This year, the show’s impressive broadcast coverage had something different going on behind the scenes. For the first time, FOX NFL Sunday was produced in their brand-new LED virtual production facility powered by Unreal Engine. Featuring groundbreaking multicam capabilities, the facility had taken more than six months and 30,000 combined staff hours to complete.
Go behind the scenes and learn more about how they have utilized this technology to bring fans supercharged content.
Into the Innerverse: Inside Bastille’s first virtual concert
Find out how the WPP agency helped Bastille build an interactive VR performance with virtual production and Unreal Engine that takes fans directly into Give Me The Future’s philosophical world.
Solo Game Developer Danny Park talks about the development process and inspiration behind Rōnin Trail, an upcoming open-world voxel game where you set out on a journey to Edo, the City of Opportunity, traveling through the countryside in the hopes to find your purpose as a wandering nobody. He discusses the challenges of being a solo developer, the game’s mechanics, and combat systems and shares thoughts on setting up voxel environments in Unreal Engine.
A new star system has been discovered–The Minerva Galaxy! The challenger’s mission, should they choose to accept, will be to create their own planet with a unique discovery settlement.
Challengers will have until December 2nd to submit their contribution to the Minerva Galaxy as either concept art or animation– and together will create a user generated galaxy!
From a free Kit, to basic training, including an out-of-this-world Getting Started with UE5 tutorial, judges from top film, game, and animation studios - this is challenge is sure to make a big-bang!
COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHTS
The Remnants || Unreal Engine 5 short film
Five years after a global disaster and the planet is slowly dying, as are the hopes of the remaining few. One of the survivors is looking for a place to call home, not knowing when he last ate, or when he will again. Stumbling through the dark he stumbles across something, a light, a spark of hope, but will that hope be returned? Check out this one-man production project by VFX Artist Stan Petruk.
This gorgeous exploration farming sim set in an aging post town in the heart of the Japanese countryside is your perfect plot of land to build your homestead, and raise crops and livestock all while finding a balance between old and modernizing farming experiences.
3D Artist Yinuo Chen’s used an ArtStation Challenge to revisit their fond memories of environment design, using the Realm of the Dragon’s Rise concept art by Yuyun.
In the environment’s development, they were able to try out new systems and workflows, including complex world-position-offset animations.