Soyuzmultfilm to release a full-length cartoon on the Unreal Engine

In Russia, they intend to create the first domestic full-length cartoon using the Unreal Engine game engine. This was reported by the TASS news agency with reference to the chairman of the board of the film studio “Soyuzmultfilm” Yuliana Slashcheva.

The picture will be called “The Formula of Water”, the actions in it take place in the future on a planet almost completely filled with the ocean. The cartoon tells the story of an 18-year-old girl named Dana, who decides to challenge a crime boss who has seized control over the main value of the post-apocalyptic world – fresh water. It is expected that the “Formula of Water” will be shown to viewers in 2023.

Speaking at the training for the finalists of the All-Russian competition “Big Change”, Yuliana Slashcheva said that now in Russia, a full-length animated film using traditional technology is being created in at least 4 years. Using the Unreal Engine, this time-consuming process can be cut in half. Thus, the Soyuzmultfilm studio intends not only to speed up the process of creating cartoons, but also to increase the production of animation. By the way, domestic animators already had experience with the game engine. The company has already released the animated series Secrets of the Honey Valley on the Unreal Engine (in the title picture).

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