From the news this week : Unity 2021.2a19 was released with an update of the pipeline for working with assets, the Perimeter sources were uploaded to the GitHub, Blender 2.93 LTS was released, AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution will appear in the first games on June 22, “joint sets” appeared on Steam, progress on GDScript Godot is on its way to 4.0, with Howler 2022, KeyShot 10.2 and the new Arm Mobile Studio for Unity released.
Of interest: a study of how Nanite works from the inside, tips for optimizing work with Substance, an animated bridge in Unreal Engine purely in a shader, interesting examples of VFX from recent films.
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Creation of mythical creatures and VFX smoke with fire
Members of the REALTIME team told 80lv about creating mythical creatures for TV series and discussed the process of creating realistic visual effects of smoke and fire.
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On the creation of VFX in "Army of the Dead" by Zach Snyder
A combination of ground and aerial LIDAR and drone imagery was used.