How Neill Blomkamp and Unity are shaping the future of filmmaking with Adam: The Mirror

Last year, the company behind the Unity game engine released Adam, a proof-of-concept short film designed to show off its cinematic creation tools. It doesn’t have much of a story: it’s just a robot escaping a prison. But Unity Technologies earned enough of a response to justify developing the story into something bigger, and its representatives turned to Neill Blomkamp’s Oats Studios.Blomkamp, the writer-director of Elysium and District 9, launched Oats earlier this year as an