Lightwell founder Jim Mann will be attending ATF in Singapore this year.

At the Unreal Fest held in Seattle, last week, Epic games revealed the next release of their all-conquering game engine, Unreal Engine 5.5. Alongside a cluster of impressive looking updates and new features was a new lighting approach they’ve called MegaLights. Rather than a new set of lights, MegaLights provides a new lighting method within the engine, and promises to increase GPU scene render times. If it truly works as demonstrated, this will be huge for the virtual sets and any other industry requiring realtime scenes. I decided to test it.

“We located the studio almost in a sort of found hundred-year-old iron structure. Which has had some coats of paint, but there’s areas where it’s chipped, there’s areas where it’s stained. It’s been around, it’s been in Paris for a hundred years,”

Whenever a large project goes on air, there is often a rush of trade articles discussing various aspects of the project. One of the first to appear covering the Paris Olympics studio, was from SVG