Journey 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.
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.
Recently, Epic Games and filmmakers’ collective Bullitt assembled a team to test out the latest in-camera VFX toolset, part of the extensive suite of virtual production tools in Unreal Engine 4.27. To put each of the tools new through their paces, they created a short test piece to mimic a production workflow.
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.
Before releasing Unreal Engine 5 Early Access to developers, we created a high-quality sample project, Valley of the Ancient, to test it out. To really push the limits, it included a 50-million-polygon character, courtesy of Aaron Sims Creative, which was animated entirely in engine.