Unity Technologies, creator of the world’s most popular creation engine, has announced Academy Award-nominated directorNeill Blomkamp(District 9) is directing the next installments in theADAMfranchise:ADAM: The MirrorandADAM: The Prophet. These new stories build upon the mythology introduced in the firstADAM, Unity’s Webby Award-winning short film created with the game engine and rendered in real time. The Unity engine offers up the perfect tool for Blomkamp and his OATS Studios banner, which has been churning outlive-action shorts with incredible CG enhancements.
Created and produced by Blomkamp’s OATS Studios using the latest version of Unity 2017, these new short films showcase the power of working within an integrated real-time environment - empowering the team to build, texture, animate, light, and render all in Unity to deliver high-quality graphics at a fraction of the cost and time of a normal film production cycle.ADAM: The Mirrorwill premiere during the live stream of the Unite Austin 2017 Keynote, which begins at 7pm Eastern /4pmPacifictonight, and will be available on the OATS YouTube channel shortly after.ADAM: The Prophetwill follow before the end of 2017.
Check out the teaser below:
The trailer for the next chapter in the ADAM story is here! Created in real-time by Oats Studios using Unity, the journey of our amnesiac hero continues.
“Ever since I started making films I’ve dreamed of a virtual sandbox that would let me build, shoot and edit photorealistic worlds all in one place. Today that dream came true thanks to the power of Unity 2017,” said Blomkamp. “The fact that we could achieve near photorealistic visuals at half of average time of our production cycles is astounding. The future is here and I can’t wait to see what our fans think.”
The originalADAMwas released in 2016 as a short film to demonstrate technical innovations on Unity. It won a Webby Award and was screened at several film festivals including the Annecy Film Festival and the Nashville Film Festival.ADAM: The Mirrorpicks up after the end of the events ofADAMwhere the cyborg hero discovers a clue about what and who he is.ADAM: The Prophetgives viewers their first glimpse of one of the villains in theADAMuniverse.
OATS was founded as an indie film studio that experiments with the latest filmmaking technologies, and Unity 2017 is the first time it has worked in a real-time creation engine. Harnessing the power of real-time rendering, OATS used Unity 2017 to help them create photorealistic graphics and lifelike digital humans. This was achieved through a combination of Unity’s advanced high-end graphics power, new materials utilizing the Custom Render Texture feature, advanced photogrammetry techniques, Alembic-streamed animations for facial and cloth movement, and Unity’s Timeline feature.
Key innovations will be highlighted in the coming months via a series of behind the scenes videos and articles on the Unity website. Innovations in these short films include:
Unity 2017 is the start of a new cycle that evolves the world’s most popular game engine into an ever-expanding creation engine for gaming and real-time entertainment. Unity 2017.2 launches today and features several new features and innovations that give artists the power to do more.
Unity exists to democratize development, solve hard problems and enable success – three core values that are the driving forces of Unity’s adoption by millions of creators. Unity powers more than 50% of all new mobile games and 2/3rds of all VR/AR experiences. Interactive content made with Unity reaches nearly 3 billion devices worldwide.
