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Unity ArtEngine

ArtEngine is Unity’s material authoring tool. Harnessing the power of assisted creation, the tool helps creators accelerate production pipelines.

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ArtEngine and Insomniac Games at the GDC Showcase 2021

“Games have become a place to immerse ourselves in worlds and a way to be a part of a community when we’re sheltering at home.” – Nathaniel Bell, Principal Technical Artist, Insomniac Games, at Unity’s GDC Showcase keynote

From scanning to remastering to rapid prototyping, ArtEngine and its command-line interface is helping Insomniac Games accelerate production.

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Simplify detailed material creation

AI-assisted artistry automates and accelerates photoconversion to physically based rendered (PBR) materials, including up-resing, deblur, seam removal, unwarping, color matching, and much more. AI-powered tools let your artists focus on value-adding parts of the creative workflow.

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Output materials directly into a Unity project, and continue modifying in ArtEngine – your changes will update live and automatically in a Unity scene. Batch processing also allows users to quickly convert entire materials libraries into asset packages for any Unity render pipeline.

Shareable, single-click solutions for material authoring

ArtEngine’s selection of built-in templates helps artists create just about any project. These templates represent a range of common material processing workflows and are an efficient way to kick-start or speed up your workflow.

“Insomniac was the first studio to try Upres 2.0... After using it, we see it as the best remastering tool on the market. If a studio is going to be remastering an old title, I highly recommend using Upres 2.0.”

Nathaniel Bell, Principal Technical Artist, Insomniac Games

“The speed at which we’re able to create textures from photos using ArtEngine is amazing.”

Pascal Achermann, Cofounder and Technical Director, VRFX

“We needed to add variation and saw no other tool on the market to edit textures in the way ArtEngine did. Most importantly, we needed speed and accuracy. We knew ArtEngine could help us get to market much quicker than anticipated.”

Maik Rohland, Texture Artist, NVIDIA vMaterials

“ArtEngine is a huge time saver!”

Gui Rambelli, Sr. 3D Artist, The New York Times

“Mutation Structure is ArtEngine’s magic. It was a huge game-changer for us that allowed us to focus more on the artistic side of scanning, rather than fight with software or algorithms."

Piotr Bieryt, 3D Artist, Forte Digital

Enhance

Breathe new life into your old or lower-quality materials. Improve the quality of your assets while extending their value and lifespan.

Upres

Update and recycle old or depreciated content to make it new again. Take low-res images and use the neural networks of ArtEngine to increase the native resolution of the image – without losing quality.

JPEG Compression Removal

Sometimes original source files get lost. Now, you can easily remove the telltale signs of JPEG artifacting using artificial intelligence to recreate the missing images at their original image quality.

Expand

Make more with what you already have. Bring the richness and variety of the real world into the digital realm to enlarge your creative vision.

Seam Removal

Erase seams from materials across all PBR maps at once to quickly clean up materials and remove unwanted sections.

Mutation

Bring greater variety and life to the environments you create, and quadruple your texture libraries by allowing AI to imagine seemingly endless possibilities based on just one input.

Transmute

Change the nature or characteristic of an asset by tailoring it to a specific purpose. Insufficient and flawed assets can become fit-for-purpose and easy to work with.

Color Transfer

Take the color information from one image and transfer it onto the structure of another picture for rapid look-dev iteration cycles.

Pattern Unwarp

Automatically detect a pattern and unwarp it to align any regular texture pattern in the image space, and automatically reduce the pain of warping textures like wrinkles and stretching.