Bron Digital launches Gossamer game on Fortnite Creative
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Bron Digital is making an animated film called Gossamer, and it is unveiling a related game dubbed Gossamer: Secrets of the Heap on Fortnite today.
The Fortnite game is a playable experience meant to explore the 3D animated world of Gossamer in a way that will help fans understand the lore of the upcoming animated film, said Jason Chen, executive vice president of Bron Digital, in an interview with GamesBeat.
The playable Gossamer experience was built with the newly-released Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN). And the Gossamer-inspired digital assets are now available for creators in the alpha version of Epic Games’ Fab marketplace.
Los Angeles-based Bron Digital is a virtual production company that has built its core content around Epic Games Unreal Engine, and it has been the recipient of an Epic Games Megagrant in the past. Three years ago, at the beginning of Bron, the company decided to use the Unreal Engine to make its animated films, as Epic Games was making a big push into digital creation beyond games, said Chen.
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The expansion of Gossamer’s intellectual property into Fortnite marks Bron Digital as the first entertainment studio to build an animation project in Unreal Engine and use UEFN to publish an interactive experience in Fortnite, while offering the IP’s assets to other creators who are building digital worlds in the Fortnite ecosystem.
The Gossamer animated film, based on the book of the same name by Lois Lowry, is
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