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    Behind the scenes on The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience

    Blurring the lines between the worlds of film and games, The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience offers a glimpse at what the future of interactive entertainment could look like. Watch these videos to dive into the making of the reality-bending tech demo. 
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    Shock and Ork: How M2 brought a Warhammer: Kill Team battle to life

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    Shock and Ork: How M2 brought a Warhammer: Kill Team battle to life

    Cinematic trailers are typically reserved for video games. Animation studio M2’s latest project, however, broke all the rules. Discover how the team created an action-packed cinematic for Warhammer’s ‘Kill Team’ tabletop fantasy game.
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    Visualizing thoughts with real-time animation: exploring ‘Yumi’s Cells’

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    Visualizing thoughts with real-time animation: exploring ‘Yumi’s Cells’

    Discover how South Korean animation studio LOCUS leveraged the power of real-time technology for Yumi’s Cells, a new TV drama that takes us inside a lead character's brain with 3D animations.
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    Enter the Rocket League Hype Chamber: a new sample for broadcast and live events

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    Enter the Rocket League Hype Chamber: a new sample for broadcast and live events

    When Psyonix needed a way to handle the increasing complexity of Rocket League Championship Series broadcasts, it switched to a real-time approach for motion graphics and animations. Now, you can get your hands on the broadcast package it created in a new Unreal Engine sample project.
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    Dinosaurs battle robots in real-time rendered Armored Saurus

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    Dinosaurs battle robots in real-time rendered Armored Saurus

    Studio EON’s Armored Saurus is a real-time rendered animated TV series that sees giant mecha suit-wearing dinosaurs duke it out with alien robots. Find out how the EON team combined high-fidelity CG with live-action footage of actors to create the hit show. 
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    MetaHumans star in Treehouse Digital’s animated short horror film The Well

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    MetaHumans star in Treehouse Digital’s animated short horror film The Well

    When six friends spent their childhoods playing in a treehouse together, little did they know that they’d later set up their own company and become filmmakers. Rendered entirely in Unreal Engine, with characters generated with MetaHuman Creator, The Well is their first foray into fully CG animated production.
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    Gamitronics cuts the cost of animation production by 65%

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    Gamitronics cuts the cost of animation production by 65%

    When Sony YAY! was looking to create an animated spin-off series for India’s most popular sitcom, Gamitronics’ experimentation with fast real-time workflows caught the TV channel’s eye. Find out how Unreal Engine helped reduce feedback cycles and slash costs. 
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    Yuki 7 switches to a real-time pipeline for 2D/3D hybrid animation

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    Yuki 7 switches to a real-time pipeline for 2D/3D hybrid animation

    Award-winning artist and CEO Kevin Dart explains how Chromosphere switched from a time-consuming traditional pipeline to an Unreal Engine workflow for animated micro-series Yuki 7, unlocking real-time collaboration, fast iterations, and automated VFX—all while retaining the show’s signature 2D look. 
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    DNEG Animation explores a real-time pipeline with Mr. Spam Gets a New Hat

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    DNEG Animation explores a real-time pipeline with Mr. Spam Gets a New Hat

    Author and illustrator William Joyce has long been known for his whimsical stories. When DNEG Animation set out to bring Joyce’s animated tale to the screen as a short film, they put Unreal Engine through its paces in a real-time pipeline.
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    YouTube show Xanadu carves out a corner of the Metaverse with performance-driven CG

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    YouTube show Xanadu carves out a corner of the Metaverse with performance-driven CG

    What’s blue and lives in Xanadu? Cory Strassburger’s alter ego, Blu! Blu is busy building his empire in the Metaverse and documenting the process on YouTube, thanks to Unreal Engine, MetaHuman Creator, some amazing performance capture tech, and Cory’s very, very vivid imagination.
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    Mixed reality puts the purrr-fect twist on Carolina Panthers games

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    Mixed reality puts the purrr-fect twist on Carolina Panthers games

    When the Carolina Panthers were looking for a new way to wow fans, they enlisted the help of The Famous Group to create a mixed reality spectacle. Find out how Unreal Engine was used to kick off the start of the NFL season with a roar. 
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    BRON Digital’s Fables finds new levels of creativity with real-time animation 

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    BRON Digital’s Fables finds new levels of creativity with real-time animation 

    When BRON Digital set out to produce animated series Fables, they set up Unreal Engine as the production hub for their globe-spanning team. A versatile CG set, easy-to-use tools, and fast turnaround on ideas are just a few of the ways Unreal Engine led to a speedy, iterative, and creative workflow for episodic animation.
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    THE EYE: CALANTHEK explores real-time filmmaking in Unreal Engine 5 Early Access

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    THE EYE: CALANTHEK explores real-time filmmaking in Unreal Engine 5 Early Access

    Created in just six weeks with Unreal Engine 5 Early Access, MetaHuman Creator, and a small team of artists, THE EYE: CALANTHEK is an enigmatic and suspenseful short film by Aaron Sims Creative. The alien character from the film is now available for free download.
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    Universal Monsters are back: How Plastic Wax made a Monsters-themed Fortnite mini-series

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    Universal Monsters are back: How Plastic Wax made a Monsters-themed Fortnite mini-series

    Could Van Helsing win a battle against Dracula and The Bride of Frankenstein? Find out in this behind-the-scenes look at We Will Be Monsters, an original animated mini-series, presented by Universal Pictures and Fortnite with the help of MetaHuman Creator and Unreal Engine.
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    Mold3D Studio to share Slay animated content sample project with Unreal Engine community

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    Mold3D Studio to share Slay animated content sample project with Unreal Engine community

    In a bid to inspire and educate artists, Mold3D Studio is sharing its decades of experience in the industry by creating a sample project for animated content. With a distinctive style that’s a hybrid of anime and realism, Slay is rendered entirely in Unreal Engine.
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    Engine House tames animated short Wylder with real-time workflows

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    Engine House tames animated short Wylder with real-time workflows

    Creating an animated short film in less than three months with a very small team while working from home is no mean feat. But that’s exactly what one Cornish studio has achieved. Adapted from wordless children’s book Wylder, the film is rendered entirely as final pixels in Unreal Engine.
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    From machinima mayhem to avant-garde animation, real-time rules at Rooster Teeth