Epic Games and Weta Digital have released an incredible real-time animated short, created in Unreal Engine using the new Hair & Fur Rendering and Simulation tool. This tech video showcases what modern-day GPUs are capable of when pushed to their limits.
Weta Digital used an NVIDIA GeForce RTX3090 in order to render this animated short in real-time. Now keep in mind that this animated short only features two animals and a simple environment. So yeah, don’t expect this kind of visuals in next-gen games anytime soon. Still, it’s really impressive witnessing this kind of real-time graphics.
Epic Games plans to add this new Hair & Fur Rendering and Simulation tool in Unreal Engine 4.26.
Enjoy!
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Good video bad quality.
Meh
“Now keep in mind that this animated short only features two animals and a simple environment.”
Ergo,
With the upcoming 5090RTX, he should be able to render 4 animals and a more complex environment .
Impressive detail, furr can really bring a gpu down on its knees and make it beg for mercy. Its a reason furmark have been used as stress test of gpu overclocks for ages and new techniques to handle that are most welcome
The fur/environment was pretty impressive.
It’s always the bad animations that give this away. Also notice the fantastic life-like lighting adjustments.
Wheras in a videogame, there’s always this edgy senior art designer who tries to replicate a movie using contrast 100, brightness 10.
The fur is impressive but curiously the EGG stands out as really, really artificial. The lighting seems totally canned, like they used a gradient, not even probes.
Animation movie quality in real-time..NICE!
lol thts harsh!
Its nice, but yeah I agree, its not “mind blowing”!