Beyond Games: Previs, Production & Real-World Applications

Join Fish Flight Entertainment for a discussion exploring how Unreal Engine is being used beyond traditional game development as a real-time creative and production tool across film, television, virtual production, and live experiences. The session brings together perspectives of studio-scale output and technical Unreal practice, offering insight into how real-time tools are reshaping workflows, collaboration, and creative decision-making across multiple industries.About the Event
The evening will open with an introduction to Fish Flight Entertainment, led by Craig McEwen. Craig will provide context on Fish Flight’s work with Unreal Engine over the past nine years across film, episodic television, cinematics, and real-time pipelines. He will also share his perspective on the studio’s Vancouver roots and expansion into Winnipeg, and why the local creative and technical community is an important part of Fish Flight’s next phase.

Following a short reel, Craig will walk through how Unreal is used in practice at Fish Flight, particularly through previs, techvis, stunt planning, and virtual production and why real-time workflows have become central to modern storytelling and production.

The conversation will then shift to process and execution with Kentyn Prybylski, who will speak to his technical approach to building optimized, production-ready Unreal environments and cinematics. Kentyn will discuss workflow considerations, performance, and how Unreal continues to evolve across games, animation, and virtual production.
The session will also touch on extended uses of Unreal Engine outside of games and entertainment, including events, architecture, installations, and experiential design, followed by an open Q&A and community discussion.

Supplementary visuals and examples will be shown throughout, but the session is designed as a presentation and conversation, rather than a hands-on workshop.Speakers

Craig McEwen
Creative Strategist and Worldbuilder at Fish Flight Entertainment, working at the intersection of storytelling, immersive media, and real-time production. Craig’s background spans film, games, and live experiences, with a focus on building scalable, emotionally resonant creative systems using Unreal Engine.

Kentyn Prybylski

An Unreal Engine artist with a background in game development and professional experience across games, animation, and virtual production. Kentyn specializes in technical Unreal workflows, including optimized environments, lighting, cinematics, procedural systems, Blueprints, and virtual camera pipelines.

Agenda

5:30 PM: Doors Open

Doors Open

6:00 PM: Networking

Networking

6:30 PM: Presentation

Presentation

7:30 PM: Networking

Networking

8:00 PM: Doors Close

Doors Close

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Hosted By

David Russell, Unreal Community Leader

All things 3D, yes that's me. I professionally Scan, Print, Animate, Produce and Direct VR, do MOCAP and as much has possible do it all in Unreal!

Here is a link to the first VR Project, "Sky Stories" that I had the opportunity to Produce and Direct Some time ago:

https://vimeo.com/234392771?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=46817418

Jonathan Le, Community Organizer

My is Jonathan Phu Son Lê, and I work for New Media Manitoba, where I lead educational projects related to virtual production at our Unreal Authorized Training Centre StudioLab xR.

Complete your event RSVP here: https://communities.unrealengine.com/events/details/epic-games-winnipeg-presents-beyond-games-previs-production-amp-real-world-applications/.