Epic Games Acquires Cubic Motion, Facial Animation Tech Expert Company

How important is facial animation in a video game? If you've ever played Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, you will definitely answer very important. Without facial animation the good one, game as famous Mass Effect: Andromeda can be unpleasant too.

One big player in the industry video game who are well aware of the importance facial animation is Epic Games. Recently, Epic announced that they have acquired a company called Cubic Motion. Founded in 2009, Cubic Motion specializes in facial animation.

Technology facial animation what they created has been used in a number of blockbuster games type God of War and Marvel's Spider-Man. The Cubic Motion team also contributed to demonstration real-time presented by the Unreal Engine and Ninja Theory teams (developer Hellblade) on event GDC 2016.

In the demonstration, we can see how Cubic Motion's design technology allows the facial movements of an actress to be translated directly into animation in game. In 2018, Epic also had a chance to showcase technology live motion capture that the Unreal Engine offers, and that wouldn't be possible without Cubic Motion's involvement.

Besides Cubic Motion, the other party who contributed greatly to the demonstration was 3Lateral, which lends technology facial rigging made. Interestingly, 3Lateral already acquired by Epic at the beginning of last year, and now it's Cubic Motion's turn to join the Unreal Engine team.

Ahli facial rigging and expert facial animation meet, this means the Unreal Engine will be even more superior in presenting a very realistic digital human. So what does that mean for us as general consumers? Well, get ready to meet even more memorable characters in game-game developed using the Unreal Engine in the future.

Sumber: GamesIndustry.biz and Epic Games.