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Unreal Engine VFX backlash explained, as Epic Games addresses filmmaker criticism

Epic Games says artists matter more than tools.
GameSpot

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 ...

As Amazon embraces Unreal Engine for Fallout, one legendary director says it's filmmaking's "greatest slip backwards"

Unreal Engine has infiltrated the world of film over the past few years, including Amazon's Fallout, but Gore Verbinski isn't ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

Pirates director Gore Verbinski is iffy on Unreal Engine in movies: "I think it doesn’t work from a strictly photo-real standpoint"

The director of Pirates of the Caribbean and Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die has spoken at length about the presence of a ...
Pocket Gamer.Biz

Unreal Engine 5 is making inroads in cross-platform mobile games

Unreal Engine was recently awarded Best Game Engine at the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards. Everything the developer needs - out of the box. Mobile tools battle-tested in Fortnite Battle Royale.

Director Gore Verbinski says Unreal Engine is 'the greatest slip backwards' for movie CGI

Do visual effects look worse than they used to? The director of Pirates of the Caribbean says Unreal is the culprit.
TweakTown

Epic's Tim Sweeney is teasing Unreal Engine 6, and it's much more than a game engine

Sweeney says that the current plan for the next version of Unreal Engine is to combine the developer tools and platform that game studios and teams are using today with Fortnite's easy-to-use Unreal ...
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Why Gore Verbinski thinks Unreal Engine is to blame for bad movie CGI

The Pirates of the Caribbean director isn't a fan.
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This Unreal Engine 5 game turns cosy horror into something unsettlingly real

Fractured Blooms is a life-sim where everyday routines start to feel wrong.
Pocket Gamer.Biz

Unreal Engine royalty fee reducing to 3.5% for games landing on Epic Games Store on launch day

Epic Games is lowering its royalty fee to 3.5% for games made in Unreal Engine starting January 1st, 2025. However, those games must be released on launch day on the Epic Games Store. The discounted ...