Please join us for the Unreal Engine & Friends meetup - the Realtime Animation Edition focused on Using Unreal in Realtime Animation workflows. Hear from Speakers from Jali Research as well as some recently knighted fellows from the 2023 Unreal Engine Animation Fellowship.

Please note the return to our newer location: Blood Brothers Brewing at 165 Geary Ave!

Event will start at 6:30PM at the back of the newly renovated main room of the Blood Brothers brewery.

Doors: 6:30PM

7:00 PM: Intros & 2023 Unreal Engine Animation Fellowship Showcase

Hear from recently knighted fellows of the Unreal 2023 Animation fellowship including a short viewing of the final realtime animation projects and insights from the 3 week intensive fellowship program.

7:30PM: Pif Edwards and Elzanne Venter Jali for Unreal Engine Sneak Peek & Realtime 3D Animation Pipelines

JALI Research is a Toronto-based software company, specializing in creating advanced 3D facial animation, lip-sync, and pipeline tools for video game developers across the globe. Join Co-Founder and CTO, Pif Edwards, and Lead Software Engineer, Elzanne Venter for an early look at JALI’s new plugins for UE5, which is scheduled for release in March 2023, and explore how to generate and direct high-impact audio-driven facial animation and rich dialogue directly in UE5 and Sequencer.

For people interesting in demoing their work on a laptop or VR headset please email us at ben.unsworth@lumeto.com to let us know if you have any setup requirements and plan to arrive early around 6:15 for setup.

Space is limited so please RSVP.