Lorne Lanning On Real-Time CG & Machinima 11
ILL Robinson writes "Just finished reading a great interview with Oddworld president, Lorne Lanning, over on VFX World. In the interview, Lorne speaks of the latest in real-time 3D technologies and Machinima, and how it relates to not only game graphics, but also how it will impact filmmaking in general. He also speaks about Epic Game's latest engine, Unreal3, and how powerful and impressive the latest Epic Games engine is."
Re:it's like reviewing half-life2 before release (Score:3, Interesting)
Yea, those screenshots are impressive. So what if they won't run on consumer grade stuff yet? Give it a year or two and we'll be looking back at Doom3 and wondering what was so impressive.
Thriller (Score:3, Interesting)
A machinima version of Michael Jackson's Thriller using Second Life's custom animation feature can be found here [ulrikasheim.org]. The graphics are as good as UT and Second Life provides in-world tools to create sets, costumes, and props. Custom animations can then be uploaded to animate characters. It's a machinimist's dream!
If you are a machinimist and would like to sign up [secondlife.com] for a free trial of Second Life, enter "Ulrika Zugzwang", the film's creator, in the "Resident Referral" box and join the in-world film-production crew.
Unreal Engine 3 Video (Score:1, Interesting)
Here is an awesome 7 minute video that shows scenes from Unreal Engine 3 and explains some of the technologoy behind it.
http://e3.gamespot.com.cn/movie/unreal30demo_e320
I think it's interesting to note though that what really makes Unreal Engine 3 powerful is the tools. The truth is that even the open source OGRE [ogre3d.org] engine supports all of the graphics features of Unreal Engine 3:
What OGRE doesn't have though is a complete set of powerful tools, and so artists have no chance of creating high quality content. But OGRE would have no trouble at all rendering all of the scenes in that video.