Animation
Inside the ‘Unreal Tournament’ episode of Secret Level with Blur Studio
Find out how Blur Studio created a real-time animation pipeline from scratch for the ‘Unreal Tournament’ episode of the Amazon Prime series Secret Level, and generated movie-quality results complete with MetaHumans and special effects.Free Unreal Engine courses: animating MetaHumans, god rays, PCG tools, and more
Check out this month’s free Unreal Engine learning content and learn skills in everything from MetaHuman animation and procedural content generation to VR game development and visual effects.Unreal highlights in the media and entertainment industry this year
This year saw some truly standout Unreal Engine-powered media and entertainment projects. Check out the highlights of 2024 as we look back on Dune: Part Two, Fallout, and much more.Free learning content: Explore 3D scanning with Quixel, switching to UE & more
Hone your existing Unreal Engine skills and learn new ones in this month’s batch of free online learning content, covering 3D scanning with the experts at Quixel, animation, procedural content generation, and much more.
Free Unreal Engine courses and learning content for film and TVThis month’s free learning content takes you into the exciting world of Unreal Engine for film and TV. Explore courses on virtual production, animation, art direction, and more.
Dive into these brand new Unreal Engine courses and tutorialsLooking to hone your Unreal Engine skills? This month’s learning content will teach you everything from animating in engine to optimizing skeletal meshes for top performance. Check it out.
Behind the scenes on Blue Dot: MetaHuman Animator brings stunning fidelity to cinematics
The film shows how MetaHuman Animator unlocks the ability for teams to create cinematics of stunning fidelity and resonance by using a creative on-set process typical of traditional filmmaking to direct and capture a performance.Delivering high-quality facial animation in minutes, MetaHuman Animator is now available!
Capture a facial performance for your digital human using just an iPhone and a PC and turn it into facial animation for your MetaHuman in minutes. Fast, easy, and cost-effective, MetaHuman Animator unlocks facial performance capture for all creators.New MetaHuman Animator feature set to bring easy high-fidelity performance capture to MetaHumansDo you love the visual fidelity of MetaHumans but find it hard to make their facial animation equally believable? A new MetaHuman feature set will soon change all that. And you may already have the hardware you need in your pocket.
From The Lion King to fairyland: inside the beautiful world of Brave CreaturesJourney into a short that feels destined for bigger things, as we learn how an Academy Award-winner tapped Epic Ecosystem standards like UE5, Megascans, MetaHumans, and the Path Tracer to pull you into a fairy world on the brink of war.
Unreal Fest 2022: Sessions for creators across all industriesThis year’s Unreal Fest featured tracks dedicated to games, media & entertainment, architecture, automotive, and simulation. But some sessions refused to be pigeonholed, having broad appeal for creators across all industries. Check out the highlights of our Cross-Industry track here.
Six-week cinematics: watch the Unreal Fellowship 2022 sizzle reelUnreal Fellowship students are always full of ideas and this group was no different. See some of our favorite clips from their final projects, covering everything from anime angels to interdimensional meetings. See if you can spot the MetaHumans!
Words, camera, action: Creating an AI music video with Unreal Engine 5From generating scripts to painting portraits, artificial intelligence is swiftly unlocking our creative potential. Learn how the Sagans team used AI and Unreal Engine to create an entire Akira-inspired music video inside.
Real-time character animation training roundup: free resourcesCheck out our 3D animation resources! Since our last post, we’ve added a ton of new animation tutorials, guides, and samples. Dive into the new Animation Field Guide, explore the Slay sample project, and brush up on your animation techniques with our latest online courses.
Now available: video guide on using the MetaHuman facial rig
In this presentation, Cubic Motion’s Adam Walton takes you through using all of the controls in the facial rig included with MetaHumans in Unreal Engine.