Unity is the little game engine that could revolutionize animated movies

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This week, I attended the Unite Europe conference in Amsterdam, where more than 1,400 current and aspiring game developers gathered to see the latest tools and innovations from Unity, the company responsible for one of the most popular and widely used game engines. But my big takeaway from the event was less about gaming than about moviemaking: the new Cinemachine component that’s coming to Unity’s 2017.1 release feels a little bit revolutionary. It grants amazing directorial and cinematography powers to even neophyte users like me, and it goes to the heart of Unity’s stated mission of democratizing development. It’s like the stuff Epic Games talked about with the Unreal Engine back in 2015 made real today.

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