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VFX Futures Podcast: Facial capture, CG and cut scenes on Codemasters’ ‘F1 2021’

How do cut scenes in games get made? For the story mode ‘Braking Point’ cinematics in Codemasters’ F1 2021, our team took motion captured performances and delivered final shots with Unreal Engine, the first time we’d employed the game engine like this. It was also the first time we used DI4D’s new digital double animation pipeline, PURE4D, for facial capture.

To get a handle on how this worked for the cut scenes, befores & afters’ Ian Failes chatted with our CG director Ian Jones and DI4D co-founder Dug Green in his latest VFX Futures podcast.

Subnautica: Below Zero Trailer lands Special Merit at the AEAF Awards

Our work on the Subnautica: Below Zero launch trailer has been awarded Special Merit at the Australian Effects and Animation Awards (AEAF). The trailer also recently picked up Best Effects / Animation at the Vega Digital Awards.

It’s the third cinematic trailer created for the much loved open world survival action-adventure game. Set two years after the original game, and in the arctic region of Planet 4546B, the game marks a new chapter in the Subnautica Universe – a story that the REALTIME team was delighted to help bring to the screen.

Many congratulations to our team, the AEAF jury and everyone at Unknown Worlds Entertainment.

AEAF Finalists

We are delighted to announce that we are finalists in the 2021 AEAF animation and visual effects awards.

Our full-CG animated trailer for Subnautica: Below Zero has been shortlisted for the Games Trailer award, while our VFX work in The Watch and A Discovery of Witches are now competing in the TV Series category.

HUGE congrats to our team, who worked so hard on all these projects!

REALTIME team up with Ukie to #RaiseTheGame on diversity

The #RaiseTheGame pledge, an initiative from UKIE, is a collaborative and high-impact commitment to improve equality, diversity and inclusion in the games industry — creating cultures where everyone belongs, voices are heard and ideas can thrive.

We are proud to announce that we are supporting the #Raisethegame initiative by pledging to create change within our own organisation.

Companies signing up to the pledge work towards:

creating a diverse workforce by recruiting as fairly and as widely as possible
shaping inclusive and welcoming places to work, by educating and inspiring people to take more personal responsibility for fostering and promoting diversity and inclusion
Reflecting greater diversity within games at every level from game design and development through to marketing and community engagement.

REALTIME joins developers, publishers and other companies associated to the video games industry who have also signed-up to the pledge, including Xbox, Mediatonic, Rare and EA.

Says Tony Prosser, Managing Director of REALTIME, “We wholeheartedly support the principle of equal opportunities and nurturing a diverse and inclusive environment within our business. Signing up to Ukie’s #Raisethegame pledge is a hugely exciting step for REALTIME; diversity in our workforce ensures diversity, innovation and resilience in our work, which is a vital to our company culture.”