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Filmmaking in Unreal Engine — how Hanny created her arthouse cinematic

CG Spectrum

Hanny shares her visually stunning final project with us, a short cinematic called Naima , detailing how she created her scenes in Unreal Engine, where she drew her inspiration from, and how the technical and creative support of her industry expert mentors allowed her to bring her vision to fruition. So, I signed up! Lighting the scene.

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Q&A: Real-Time Ray Tracing in a Cinematic Scene

Nvidia

Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame. Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame overnight—a painstaking process. Path tracing and ray tracing are both rendering techniques, but they have key differences.

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The Art of 2.5D: How It’s Redefining Game Design 

iXie gaming

continues to evolve, leveraging AI, modern rendering techniques, and cutting-edge game engines to push the boundaries of game design. allows for stylized, hand-painted visuals, blending nostalgia with modern rendering techniques. locks the perspective, allowing developers to craft cinematic, carefully framed environments.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Low level rendering access.

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Does it take much work/money to edit cutscenes once finished? Like, you develop a cutscene but then you decide to change details like background, music, clothes, facial expressions of the characters or even add to the scene a character who originally wasn’t supposed to be there. How often does this happen?

Ask a Game Dev

Once upon a time, back when all cutscenes were pre-rendered FMV, it was tremendously expensive to make changes because making any small change required re-rendering the entire video which was enormously expensive. Today, for an in-game cinematic, a lot of the things are done in real time so we can swap things out as needed.

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Scaling Art Production for Live-Service Games: Challenges, Innovations, and Future-Ready Pipelines 

iXie gaming

Slow rendering and iteration cycles, delaying content updates. AWS Game Development for cloud-rendering scalability. Real-Time Rendering Advances Next-gen rendering technologies streamline production and improve fidelity: (i). Unity HDRP supports cinematic-quality visuals at scale. Common issues include: (i).

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Godot gets a brand new animation editor (with cinematic support)

Mircosoft Game Dev

With the new trend of cinematic tools and timelines coming recently to the big engines, this workflow (which was already possible) was cleaned up and made much easier and visual. This workflow is very smooth, and previews of the audio are rendered in a thread to not obstruct your work, just like in a real DAW!