District 9 director Neill Blomkamp makes two sci-fi film shorts with Unity

Neill Blomkamp, the Academy Award-nominated director of District 9, has taken a film created with the Unity Technologies game engine and made a couple of new short films based upon it. The project means that Unity can be used to democratize film making, just as it is used to democratize game development.

Blomkamp said in an interview with GamesBeat that he was impressed with Adam, a short film that Unity built as an internally produced showcase demo last year. The film shows an Android coming to life and realizing that it was a human trapped in a robot’s body. The film was meant to show off the power of the Unity engine when it comes to making high-quality 3D graphics.