UnrealŽ Engine 3 To Include FaceFX™
Epic Games to provide Unreal Engine 3 licensees
industry-leading facial animation software
Raleigh, North Carolina - October 18th, 2005 -
Epic Games, world leading developers of cutting-edge computer and video
games and the pioneer of the award-winning UnrealŽ Engine, and OC3
Entertainment, a leading provider of facial animation technology, announced
today that OC3 Entertainment’s FaceFX™ product has been licensed for use in
Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3. The agreement means that the FaceFX
technology will be available to all Unreal Engine 3 licensees. Epic Games
will use the FaceFX product in their upcoming titles Gears of War and
Unreal Tournament 2007 to create emotive characters and
cinematic-quality dialogue sequences.
“OC3 Entertainment is thrilled to continue working with
Epic Games and further solidify our partnership,” said Jamie Redmond,
Co-founder and Technical Director of OC3 Entertainment. “Unreal Engine 3
with an integrated version of FaceFX makes for a very powerful
next-generation facial animation solution with enormous potential and we are
very excited to see what the talented teams using Unreal Engine 3 can
produce.”
“Facial animation is of paramount importance to Epic
Games and our licensees for the next generation,” said Mark Rein, Vice
President and Co-founder of Epic Games. “FaceFX is truly in a league of its
own. We are thrilled to be using it in our own development, and we are
confident that Unreal Engine licensees will greatly benefit from our
relationship with OC3 Entertainment.”
For More Information Contact:
Nicola Kirby
Little Brown Dog for Epic Games
+44 (0) 1372 818 776
kirby@littlebrowndoggy.com
Doug Perkowski
OC3 Entertainment, Inc.
(919) 460-4564
info@oc3ent.com
About FaceFX
FaceFX is an advanced facial animation solution unique in its ability to
liberate artists from the complexities of creating realistic dialogue and
emotive characters. The nuances of facial movement can be stored as
interactions between morph targets, bone poses, and material properties
using the ground-breaking Face Graph™ technology. FaceFX can be used
to animate characters by hand or generate lip-synchronization and speech
gesture data automatically from audio dialogue. FaceFX uses industry
leading VoiceInŽ speech recognition technology from Fonix to perfectly
synchronize the audio to the mouth movements.
About OC3 Entertainment
OC3 Entertainment (www.oc3ent.com)
is a private company dedicated to powering the gaming industry with
realistic talking characters. The company develops FaceFX, a middleware
solution for game developers.
About Unreal Engine 3
The award-winning Unreal Engine is known for cutting-edge graphics and a
best-of-breed toolset. Unreal Engine 3 is expected to maintain those
features while adding massive world support, multi-processor support,
next-generation console optimizations, and one of the most mature tool
pipelines in the industry. Unreal Engine 3’s new toolset is designed
specifically to accelerate developers' productivity for ultra-complex,
next-generation content. Additional information on Unreal Engine can be
obtained at
www.unrealtechnology.com.
About Epic Games
Epic Games Inc., based in Raleigh, NC and established in 1991, is a
developer of cutting-edge computer and video games. The company is best
known as the creator of hit PC 3D action games Unreal and Unreal Tournament,
both award-winning blockbuster hits having each sold more than one million
copies. Epic is also responsible for the Unreal Engine, which is the
underlying technology for a wide range of games including, 2002 Console Game
of the Year winner, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell ™ from Ubi Soft; PC Gamer’s
2000 Game of the Year, Deus Ex from Ion Storm/Eidos;
America's Army: Special Forces , from
the United States Army, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (PC) from
Electronic Arts. Additional information can be obtained through Epic's Web
site at
www.epicgames.com.
Unreal is a registered trademark of
Epic Games Inc. FaceFX is a trademark of OC3 Entertainment Inc. VoiceIn is a
registered trademark of Fonix. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective companies.
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