Epic Games buys Cubic Motion for facial mapping technology

Epic’s latest acquisition, Cubic Motion of Manchester, England, consolidates the work the two companies have been doing in virtual production. Game engines have been adapted for virtual production probably since at least 2013 or so. Tinkerers in film production were quietly playing with game engines as a tool for interactive capture with the advantage of realtime rendering so that filmmakers could see what they were doing. With the release of Jungle Book in 2016, the world could see what was being done with virtual production. The Jungle Book team worked with Unity on that production. In addition, filmmaker Neil Blomkamp