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Unity Originals

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Enemies

Showcasing the power of Unity

Unity Originals are in-house productions created by Unity’s Demo Team to push our engine to its limits. These projects highlight major milestones in Unity’s evolution.

Productions

Explore our portfolio of Unity Originals: flagship projects created by Unity’s Demo Team.

Packages

Check out a selection of releases published over the years and dive into the details of how our projects come together.

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Enemies | HDRP

Explore and experiment with the complete Enemies project package, featuring the latest advancements in our digital-human journey.

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Strand-Based Hair | Experimental Package

Try our integrated solution for authoring, importing, simulating, and rendering strand-based hair in Unity.

Resources

Explore tutorials, videos, and behind-the-scenes content covering learnings from our production processes and tips to help you achieve similar results.

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Get started with Hair Simulation

Dive into the advanced hair simulation features the Unity Originals team developed for the Enemies demo.

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Inside Unity’s new flagship demo, Enemies | GDC 2022

Take a deep dive into the tech behind Enemies and learn how the Unity Originals team brought its groundbreaking photorealistic character to life.

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Real-time VFX workflows in The Heretic | Unite 2019

Learn about the production process behind key visual effects in The Heretic and how the team employed Unity’s VFX Graph.

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Making of The Heretic: Digital human character Gawain

Read about the process of creating The Heretic’s protagonist, from concept art to transforming 4D scans of a human actor into a realistic digital performance.

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HDRP lighting features in The Heretic

See how the cinematic world of The Heretic was lit entirely using Unity’s expanded real-time lighting capabilities.

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The technology behind The Heretic

Explore the biggest challenges encountered during the production of The Heretic, plus key VFX techniques and the process of animating and rendering a digital human.

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Book of the Dead: Photogrammetry assets, trees, VFX

Take an in-depth look at how the Unity Originals team used photogrammetry techniques to create Book of the Dead’s lifelike trees and a wealth of related visual effects.

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Book of the Dead: Quixel, wind, scene building, and more

Explore the Unity Originals partnership with Quixel and learn how Book of the Dead’s wind system, environmental design, and content optimization processes came together.

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Book of the Dead: Character and hero assets

Discover the process of turning 2D concepts into Book of the Dead’s richly detailed 3D characters, props, and other assets.

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The Making of Adam: Unite 2016

Dive into the production processes for the Adam demo’s graphics, animation, and visual effects.

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Making a scene that looks like the Adam demo: Unite 2016

Take a step-by-step look at how to set up a project, light a scene, configure shadows, and use cinematic post effects to emulate the Adam demo.

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Working with physically based shading: A practical approach

Try out the downloadable Viking Village package and let this blog post guide you through assembling and illuminating a scene.

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Making of The Butterfly Effect

Take a behind-the-scenes look at how Unity collaborated with Passion Pictures and Nvidia to create the short real-time rendered film The Butterfly Effect.

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Our team

Focusing primarily on graphics, Unity’s Demo Team is dedicated to exploring and extending what’s possible with Unity, pushing the limits of real-time technology, developing new workflows, and experimenting with innovative approaches. The team creates a portfolio of flagship productions called Unity Originals, as well as various smaller experimental and feature-oriented demos.

The team consists of experienced game professionals led by Creative Director Veselin Efremov, who writes and directs the projects and is responsible for their final look.

Adrian Lazar — Staff Technical Artist

Aleksander Karshikoff — Senior Manager, Content Production

Angela Diaz — Senior Content Producer

Christian Kardach — Staff Technical Animator

Hugo García Torres — Senior Animator

Lasse Jon Fuglsang Pedersen — Staff Software Engineer

Mikel Barron Bilbao — Staff Technical Artist

Mikko Alaluusua — Staff Software Engineer

Petter Flood — Artist

Plamen “Paco” Tamnev — Staff 3D Artist

Rob Cupisz — Staff Software Engineer

Silvia Rasheva — Director, Content Production

Torbjörn Laedre — Principal Software Engineer

Veselin Efremov — Principal Creative Director

Xuan Prada — Senior Manager, Artistry

Other demos

Delve into a selection of other demos and sample projects that Unity’s Demo Team has worked on.

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Fantasy Kingdom

Fantasy Kingdom

2023 — Fantasy Kingdom is a stylized environment created to showcase major improvements in rendering, lighting, scaling, and overall performance in Unity 6.

Neon

2017 — The Neon environment demo uses only Asset Store models and was created with Unity 2017.1, the Post-Processing Stack v1, and Volumetric Lighting packages.