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• Unity Awards 2019: Voting is open December 6, 2019
  Each year, we celebrate the fantastic games, tools, and experiences you have created using Unity. This year is no different! The Unity Awards are back, and we couldn’t be more excited to share the finalists with you. This is your opportunity to weigh in on your favorite projects across games, virtual reality (VR), film, industry […]
  Community Team
• Get to the point: PiXYZ 2019.2 December 5, 2019
  The 2019.2 releases of PiXYZ STUDIO and PiXYZ PLUGIN are now available for current subscribers and new customers and bring some important refinements as well as fundamentally new capabilities. As a result of these improvements, PiXYZ is now suited for a wider range of use cases and provides support for workflows that start with point […]
  Edward Martin
• Democratizing the Secure Software Development Life Cycle December 4, 2019
  Unity is sharing an open version of its internal Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SSDLC) so that others can benefit from our work. Even better, we’re inviting everyone to contribute to improving them so that we can refine standards for best practices together. Unity’s security team documented its SSDLC for developers who work at Unity […]
  Brandon
• Unity opens new possibilities for the anime industry December 3, 2019
  Japanese animation studio Craftar took to the stage at Unite Tokyo 2019 to talk about the new possibilities that Unity brings to the Japanese animation industry.  Few Japanese studios have explored the potential of Unity as a production tool for anime because they don’t know if its real-time improvements to their workflow can deliver the […]
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• MarZ: Making a RTS with the Asset Store December 2, 2019
  Indie devs doorfortyfour used the Asset Store’s Script Inspector, Amplify Shader Editor, and Volumetric Fog and Mist heavily to streamline production and fill in skill gaps for their game MarZ: Tactical Base Defense. Read more about how this two-person team made use of these assets to create the game. MarZ: Tactical Base Defense is a […]
  Tenzin W
• Accelerating ML Research: Meet us at NeurIPS 2019 November 29, 2019
  In a few short weeks, Unity will be heading to NeurIPS in Vancouver (December 8–14). We’re sponsoring the main conference and the Women in Machine Learning (WiML) Workshop, as well as co-organizing the NeurIPS 2019 Workshop on Learning Transferable Skills. Learning transferable skills enable intelligent systems to generalize to new domains and tasks easily. This […]
  Marwan Mattar
• Creating a third-person zombie shooter with DOTS November 27, 2019
  We’re rebuilding the core of Unity with our Data-Oriented Tech Stack, and many game studios are already seeing massive performance wins when using the Entity Component System (ECS), the C# Job System, and the Burst Compiler. At Unite Copenhagen, we had a chance to sit down with Far North Entertainment and go deep into how […]
  Kristyna Hougaard
• Achieving theater-quality anime with Unity November 26, 2019
  Japanese animation studio Graphinica, Inc., creators of innovative TV and cinema animation productions, set out to discover whether it’s possible to produce theater-quality anime using real-time rendering. We collaborated with the studio to develop a proof of concept, then shared the results at Unite Tokyo. Graphinica, Inc. has been producing 2D and 3D animation projects […]
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• Black Friday is back! November 25, 2019
  This week, save 50% on 400 of this year’s most popular assets to take your Unity project to the next level. Looking to build wild landscapes from scratch? Want to create cinema-quality lighting effects? Need an Editor extension to save time on coding? This week, we’re offering big discounts throughout the Unity Asset Store on […]
  Tenzin W
• How immersive experiences inspire empathy and real-world behavior change November 22, 2019
  Fly into an exclusive game that combines ornithology, AR Foundation, and a fair amount of feathers. Krikey is a location-based augmented reality (AR) gaming app where you can explore your neighborhood to unlock AR ecosystems and discover new bird species. The content below is courtesy of Krikey. The power of immersion with mobile augmented reality […]
  Braelyn Johnson