Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski blames Unreal Engine for bad modern CGI; Epic Games fires back, defending the tool used in virtual production.

As Verbinski explained, Unreal Engine 5's approach to light and its application in scenes doesn't work with films aiming for a photorealistic presentation. The filmmaker says that this tends to create ...

Gore Verbinski believes it's one of the main reasons why CGI shots are sometimes looking worse than they did in the late 2000s.

Fortnite maker Epic Games has hit back at a claim by Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski that the company's ...

Gore Verbinski, the director of the original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, blames video games (or, rather, the Unreal ...

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It should be noted that the Visual Effects branch Executive Committee determined the shortlist. Academy members will be invited to view excerpts and interviews with the artists from each of the ...

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The VES Handbook of Visual Effects, Fourth Edition, includes contributions from 95 visual effects experts and will be published on December 18, 2025 from Routledge. With the Fourth Edition, the VES ...