The Unreal Engine team has released an in-depth breakdown of The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience, a photorealistic technical demo released by the team in December 2021. In this breakdown, the team behind the project explained how they managed to build a huge, bustling, and explorable open-world city, talked about using MetaHuman Creator and procedural city generation systems for game development and filmmaking, spoke about the future and what technological advancements mean for creators, and more..
"For audiences around the world, the visual effects on the film were nothing short of jaw-dropping. Huge numbers of CG assets were synthesized in the world of a computer, including digital humans, digital fire, digital clouds, and digital environments, says the team. "To demonstrate how it’s now possible to create the photorealistic simulated worlds depicted in the original Matrix films, Epic assembled a team of experts to help create The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience, a technical demo that blurs the boundaries between cinematic and game."
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