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Credit to Author: Leif Johnson| Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 16:01:46 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n Unity is chiefly known as a game engine, but its makers want to make sure the world knows its versatility with real-time rendering extends far beyond that. To that end, it’s enlisted the help director of Neill Blomkamp, best known for the acclaimed (and visually stunning) 2009 science fiction film District 9<\/i>.<\/p>\n The result is two short dystopian science fiction films called Adam: The Mirror<\/i> and Adam: The Prophet<\/i>, both directed by Blomkamp. His newly founded Oats Studios\u2014which makes short films<\/a> for YouTube and Steam in order to gauge interest for feature film on the same subjects\u2014created them entirely with Unity 7.0.<\/p>\n Both movies are sequels for Unity’s own Adam: Chapter 1<\/i><\/a>, a 10-minute short film that Unity’s demo team created last year to show off the engine’s impressive strengths<\/a> with computer-generated images and real-time rendering. Its visual beauty earned it a 2016 Webby Award<\/a> in the Branded Animation category. With Blomkamp’s participation, though, the engine now has some Hollywood cred.<\/p>\n You can watch the trailer for both films above, which follows the story of a robot who’s confronted with the person he once was in a past life. Adam: The Mirror<\/i> will be released in full sometime tonight, while Adam: The Prophet<\/i> will follow sometime next month. <\/p>\n Unity, for its part, hopes the project will allow Unity to escape the “stigma” of being a game engine.<\/p>\n “It’s a real time engine and there’s no right way to use Unity,” said Isabelle Riva, Unity’s head of “Made with Unity” program, in an interview with Polygon<\/i><\/a>. “I think because it’s so extensible and people can do different things with it, it becomes known as a generalist program.”<\/p>\n