Meerkat Demo

Epic Games - UE Feature Samples - Dec 8, 2020

Weta Digital has been investigating real-time technology and its impact on linear content development with an initial focus on fur and feathers to see what level of detail can be achieved.

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    4.26 - 4.27, 5.0 - 5.4
As real-time technology becomes an increasingly important part of the filmmaking process from previs to final pixels, Weta Digital is exploring just how far they can push movie-quality hair, fur, and feathers for linear storytelling in real-time. The result is ‘Meerkat’, a short film rendered entirely in Unreal Engine. The effort was to strive for the highest quality possible while maintaining as fast a speed as possible in Unreal Engine. With the right graphics card, the Meerkat short will run at real-time.


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