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So proud to see this Emmy-nominated. Good luck team - fingers crossed!🤞

What if you could see music? For the Daft Punk Experience in Fortnite, we didn't just use music to inspire the visuals. We used math to visualise the music. For one scene in Contact, the chord progression was transcribed, the notes converted into frequencies and encoded into the visuals, so as you flew through space, you were literally seeing the music in front of you. In this Unreal Fest Chicago talk, our Audiovisual Designer & Creative Director Addison Herr breaks down how he used the connection between music and math to shape the experience. 🎵➗ Watch it here: https://lnkd.in/eQYf2df7 #Niagara #Sequencer #UnrealEngine

Meet Dean, who keeps our IT ops running smoothly in the UK! From high school LAN parties in Durban, South Africa, to fast-tracking his IT diploma and certifications, Dean’s passion for tech has always driven his career. Having managed IT support across everything from print presses and national newspapers to architectural firms, Dean immigrated to the UK during the pandemic and joined Magnopus as a Junior Administrator – now he leads our UK team! In our latest spotlight, Dean shares why he views setbacks as long-term opportunities for growth, his philosophy on never wasting a chance to learn, and how he’s somehow managed to clock 16,000+ hours in ARK and break his legs more times than he actually has them! 🦵🎮 Read the full Q&A here: https://lnkd.in/e3HFzQ9S  

Super proud to have been part of this journey - congrats to the team for making magic happen! 🌈 👠👏 🦁 😊

Meet Melanie, a Product Manager at Magnopus 👋 They say the best product managers know how to wear many hats, and for Melanie, navigating fast-paced projects requires three essential skills: critical thinking, a positive attitude, and a love for continuous learning. Instead of backing down from challenges, she treats every hurdle as a valuable lesson to help her team move forward. Outside of managing complex projects, she channels her focus into running, cycling, studying French, and a deep appreciation for the world around her. Check out the full Q&A to learn more about Melanie, including why she’s an expert at spotting constellations in the night sky! ✨ https://lnkd.in/exFdjUXY

Bringing a musical legacy as iconic as Daft Punk's into a massive multiplayer platform like Fortnite comes with an incredible set of creative and performance challenges. 🎮✨ If you're at Unreal Fest today, join our awesome Audiovisual Designer & Creative Director, Addison Herr, for a technical session on "Making the Daft Punk Experience: VFX and Stage Design in Fortnite." Addison will be pulling back the curtain on how we pushed Unreal Engine's features to build the activation's two most complex environments: Alive 2007 and Contact. 🗓️ Today, June 17 🕓 4:30 PM–5:20 PM CT 📍 Room E350 #UnrealFest2026 #GameDev #TechArtist #StageDesign #RealTimeVFX

How do you bring the real world into a virtual space without making things incredibly complicated? When you pull massive global datasets (like Google Earth) into a 3D environment, traditional "globe-first" rendering usually breaks your coordinate systems. In our latest technical deep dive, specialist web engineer James Edgeworth explains how we solved this for OKO by turning the problem upside down, literally. 🙃 By shifting to a "scene-first" approach, we moved the globe to sit beneath our scene, rather than forcing everything to adapt to the globe. The result? We unlocked 1:1 real-world scaling across Web, Unity, and Unreal Engine without breaking existing multiplayer workflows. It also opens up some interesting future possibilities. Because the globe is now just another asset in the space, developers can easily mash up multiple real-world locations side-by-side – like dropping the Eiffel Tower right next to Big Ben with minimal code. Read the full engineering breakdown here 👇 https://lnkd.in/e5S8xXFC

Meet Gabe Blake! As a Producer at Magnopus, he’s learned that keeping a complex project on track takes a lot more than just staring at budgets and timelines. It takes a team that truly believes in what they're building. When asked about how he keeps people motivated when things get tough, Gabe put it perfectly: "In my experience, the teams that persevere and maintain their grit typically do so because they share a belief in a vision that is exciting, important, and worthy of pursuit. It’s why at Magnopus we’re constantly aiming for the stars." Instead of managing through rigid metrics, Gabe focuses on building trust, removing roadblocks, and making sure everyone understands the bigger picture – creating an environment where people feel supported enough to do their best work. Read the full Q&A to learn more about Gabe’s journey and his philosophy on leadership: https://lnkd.in/ejQE3j2Z

When traditional rendering taps out at two million Gaussian splats, what do you do? If you're our Director of Technology, Sam Birley, you build a custom instanced renderer in Unreal. In this latest article, Sam documents his journey behind building arguably the fastest Gaussian splat renderer for #Unreal available today. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at the R&D process: from the missteps to a packing strategy that saves 55% memory on each splat! 💫 If you want to render an unbounded number of splats and build highly accurate digital environments in OKO – our spatial intelligence platform – learn from Sam's trials and triumphs. 👀 https://lnkd.in/ezmjsctY #Gaussiansplats