If you go back and watch Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, you'll notice one thing right away: The CGI looks ...

"It’s inaccurate for anyone in the industry to claim that one tool is to blame," said Patrick Tubach, VFX supervisor at Epic ...

During its State of Unreal address at GDC 2023, Epic announced a wide-ranging suite of features for Unreal Engine 5.2. But perhaps the most important feature coming in the updated engine doesn’t ...

Director Gore Verbinski believes that CGI effects in movies have gotten worse in recent years because of Unreal Engine.

Unreal Engine 5 has been catching heat for performance issues on lower-end hardware, but Epic CEO Tim Sweeney isn’t having it. According to him, the engine’s not the bottleneck—developers are. And if ...

Gore Verbinski believes it's one of the main reasons why CGI shots are sometimes looking worse than they did in the late 2000s.

When Crytek released Crysis, it was widely claimed that the zenith of computer game graphics had been reached. Not because of limits on hardware performance in rendering the world, but because the ...

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