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by ROFISH 997 days ago
Unity has been on a buying spree including traditional TV/Movie CGI firms for some insane reason†. They're just plain _bad_ at spending money.

(† Yes, I know the growth potential from real-time to rendered. I still think it's a terrible investment.)
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neurostimulant 997 days ago
Is unity used for movie's CGI? I can only think of one example of shows made with unity (it's bad): https://myanimelist.net/anime/38853/Ex-Arm
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kevinmchugh 997 days ago
Unreal has enjoyed a ton of success for tv/movie production lately, being used in "the Volume", I have to guess they're trying to keep up.
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Daegalus 996 days ago
I think the Lion King movie was made in Unity
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berkut 996 days ago
No it wasn't...

Unity used some of their tech in 2022 to create a demo with some lions in it.

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Daegalus 996 days ago
Incorrect: https://www.engadget.com/2019-07-29-lion-king-remake-vfx-mpc...

The film was shot almost entirely in Unity, then the final render used some extra stuff and other tools. But the scenes, shots, etc were done in Unity. A quick google shows you this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WupuXjvO9uA Making of videos on Youtube, you see the Unity editor in many places while they film in VR

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neurostimulant 996 days ago
That article I seems to imply Unity only used to generate "camerawork" data (camera positions and movements), and the actual rendering is done on other system using that camerawork data. IIRC on 2019 (Lion King release year) Unity didn't even have ray tracing support yet, so I think the final render might not use Unity at all, but Unity editor itself used extensively during production.

In contrast, Unreal Engine rendered scenes seems to be used in actual footages on some recent shows. Was Unity acquisitions of CGI firms meant to pursue this direction, or boost Unity editor usage during firm production like in Lion King?

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Daegalus 996 days ago
You are correct, they used it for production, building the scenes, getting camera data. I then assume they exported the scenes and camera data to whatever they used for the final render. So Unity was used for 70-80% of the work.

It is possible but I don't know. Just was trying to point out that it's more than just some demo that it was used for.

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