Using real-time animation to make a feature-length film

September 14, 2022

Heart of a Tower is the working title of Yourland – a children’s animation film and Cartoon Movie 2021 selection with a storyline that explores a young boy’s accidental journey into a fantasy world – and then his return to the real one. In a sneak peek into this elegant work-in-progress, Jan Hameeuw (Executive VFX producer) and Miguel Guerrero (Lead Layout artist) talk about how a combination of sophisticated environments and a modest budget led the team to approach this complicated production using Unity’s real-time animation capabilities.

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