There's been NZGDC, Unreal Fest Gold Coast and New Orleans, lot's to catch up on and possibly our last meetup this side of Xmas! We will have a few shorter presentations this time, starting at 6:15pm on Thursday, 19/10, same venue, Vic Uni on Vivian Street and then our Mixer at Southern Cross.

Eliot Blenkarne, Associate and Senior Visualizer at Warren and Mahoney Architects will cover the use of Unreal Engine in the AEC space. Eliot will showcase how his team have utilized UE to assist clients in the exploration of their design process, as well as how it is folded into established visualization workflows for short films and finally some insights into the challenges and potential growth for Unreal in architecture.

Dan Elliot, Senior Technical Artist at Epic Games, will go over his recent talks on volumetric clouds and the Niagara FX system. This is a great opportunity to hear about the Niagara updates after UE5 and Dan's journey with Unreal for a good part of the last decade.

Kevin Romond, Director at Miramar Creative Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, will revisit his presentation at Unreal Fest Gold Coast, ‘Lessons in Building a High-Quality Performance Capture Pipeline’. Kevin developed a performance capture pipeline at the MCC and tested it by making TikTok videos. It will be great to hear more about his workflows and the latest news from the performance capture stage at MCC.