Journey of Illusion
GAME ENGINES
Why the likes of Unity and Unreal Engine are becoming an increasingly common part of production pipelines
Gameengine technology was utilised in The Jungle Book
MPC worked with Unity to create scenes for The Lion King
The use of tools such as Unreal Engine is no longer restricted to just video games
In recent years, filmmaking has more fully embraced what can be offered by game engine technology to create environments and characters. Two notable feature films that showcased the methodology and storytelling opportunity were The Jungle Book and The Lion King. MPC in London were key to both projects, and in a conversation with 3D World at the time of The Lion King’s release, VFX supervisor Elliot Newman commented: “The camera and focus-pulling, all of those moves were recorded from the virtual camera. We built master scenes; we’d stage this, Jon [Favreau, director] would put VR goggles on and they animated master scenes, then working out the shots would be done from pre-animation in Maya and exported into Unity.”