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Exploring the new animation features of Unreal Engine 5 Early Access

June 25, 2021
Over the past several weeks, we’ve been hosting a series of in-depth presentations relating to the key features of Unreal Engine 5 Early Access on our official livestream, Inside Unreal. Most recently, we’ve recapped UE5’s world building features after having previously explored both Nanite and Lumen.
 

On this week's livestream, Epic’s Technical Product Manager Jeremiah Grant, Senior Animation Programmer Kiaran Ritchie, and Lead Programmer Aaron Cox were joined by Product Specialist Victor Brodin and Senior Technical Product Designer Chance Ivey to discuss UE5's new animation features. 

As you’ll discover in the livestream recap above, Full-Body IK (FBIK) provides you with the tools to create reactive, dynamic characters, and Motion Warping is a new Experimental feature which allows you to manipulate root motion animations to adapt them to the world with fewer custom assets.

In case you missed them, we invite you to check out the recent livestreams for a deeper understanding of Unreal Engine 5 Early Access. We also invite you to jump into the forums for further discussion and join us on our Twitch or YouTube channels for future episodes in this livestream series as we cover additional key features including MegaAssemblies, MetaSounds, and more.

Here's the full UE5 Early Access livestream schedule:

05/27 - Welcome To Unreal Engine 5 Early Access
06/03 - Nanite
06/10 - Lumen
06/17 - New World Building Features
06/24 - Motion Warping and Full-Body IK
07/01 - SUMMER BREAK
07/08 - SUMMER BREAK
07/15 - MegaAssemblies
07/22 - MetaSounds and Quartz
07/29 - Game Feature Plugins

    Get Unreal Engine 5 Early Access

    If you’re an existing Unreal Engine user, you can get UE5 Early Access and the Valley of the Ancient sample project from the Epic Games Launcher. If you’re new to Unreal Engine, we suggest getting to know UE 4.26 as a first step.
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