Unity is the little game engine that could revolutionize animated movies – The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/30/15899446/unity-cinemachine-unite-europe-2017-animation

Use game engine for animation? It looks feasible soon. The new Cinemachine component that’s coming to Unity’s 2017.1 release  promises to allow that: directorial and cinematography powers.

Unity’s Asset Store is full of free 3D models and environments — including the hugely impressive Adam character.

Unity is adding a timeline view: Your entire game or animation can sit on multiple layered timelines with triggered or timed events.

Cinemachine automates a ton of camera parameters to give you a more realistic and atmospheric presentation. There is also cinema-quality post-processing live inside a game engine.

The appeal of Unity as an animation engine is in its combination of high-quality graphics with instant playback and review