Animation
Get over 500 free animations with the Game Animation Sample ProjectExplore everything you need to get up and running with Motion Matching in this sample project, including hundreds of free AAA-quality animations to kickstart your projects or pre-productions.
Unreal Engine 5.4 is now availableThis release is packed with new features and improvements that will benefit game developers and creators across industries, including the toolsets we’ve been using internally to build and ship Fortnite Chapter 5, Rocket Racing, Fortnite Festival, and LEGO Fortnite.
March Unreal Engine Marketplace sale: get 50% off over 2,000 productsFrom knights to a haunted mansion, winter forest to fog, March’s Unreal Engine Marketplace sale is set to empower your creations. Act now to get the month’s best selection of content at half price.
We are updating Unreal Engine, Twinmotion, and RealityCapture pricing in late AprilWe are introducing a new seat-based Unreal Subscription when we release Unreal Engine 5.4. This new pricing of $1,850 per seat will apply to companies generating over $1 million USD in annual gross revenue who are not creating games.
February Marketplace sale: get 50% off over 2,000 productsRetro cafes, rustic interiors, low-poly towns, customizable NPC characters…February’s Marketplace sale has something for everyone. Act now to get this month’s selection of goodies at half price.
January Marketplace sale: over 2,000 products—now 50% offThis month’s sale features a huge range of great products, from environments and props to characters and Blueprints and beyond. There’s even a virtual TV studio. Take a look at some of our favorites and find yourself a New Year’s bargain today.
Unreal Challenge: Furious Elegance—winners announcedOur latest Unreal Challenge invited the community to demonstrate their animation skills in Unreal Engine and UEFN. We received so many beautifully inspired entries that choosing the winners was really difficult. Here are the ones we finally plumped on.
Create more realistic animation in less time with Pose Driver Connect Your ankle bone’s connected to your knee bone—but is your scapula connected to your clavicle? If not, you might be interested in our new toolset that means you can author secondary animation in Maya and recreate it one-for-one in Unreal Engine.
Unreal Engine 5.3 brings new potential for media and entertainment projectsBuilding on innovations made in the earlier releases, the recent release of Unreal Engine 5.3 sees further advances to the virtual production toolset—as well as refinements to the broader feature sets—and prepares for the next generation of ICVFX stages.
Behind the scenes on Blue Dot: MetaHuman Animator brings stunning fidelity to cinematicsThe 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.
Award-winning short film The Voice in the Hollow takes real-time animation to dark placesThe Voice in the Hollow reimagines the Cain and Abel story as a fantastical African-inspired movie short created by a small team of professionals, blending real-time 3D, 2D elements, and motion capture.
Epic Games at SIGGRAPH 2023SIGGRAPH 2023 is coming up! Register for the event and join us for sessions that explore how tools like Unreal Engine, Quixel Megascans, and Twinmotion are changing the game for film, TV, and animation.
RealityScan is now available for Android devices!We’re pleased to announce that RealityScan is now available for Android as well as iOS devices, putting this powerful, free-to-download photogrammetry application into the hands of almost anyone with a modern smartphone or tablet.
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.
Announcing a new animation-themed Unreal Challenge—with a special UEFN category!It’s time for another Unreal Challenge, and this one’s got us really excited. This round, we’re inviting you to use either Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) to show us your best moves and animate your way to some great prizes.
Epic Bootcamp 2023: Animation applications open now for European and Middle Eastern artistsAnnouncing Epic Bootcamp 2023: Animation—a free course that’ll teach you the fundamentals of real-time animation in four weeks. Classes run from July 17 through August 11, 2023, so if you want in, sign up today.
Meet MAVE: the virtual K-pop stars created with Unreal Engine and MetaHumanFind out how Metaverse Entertainment used MetaHuman and Unreal Engine to create a natural, believable, and charming virtual K-pop band, and in the process, produced IP content in various forms.
Explore the Virtual Production Visualization GuideWant to learn visualization in Unreal Engine? Explore the new Virtual Production Visualization Guide—a step-by-step look at how to master this innovative filmmaking process that encompasses previs, pitchvis, techvis, stuntvis, and postvis.
Virtual production reaches new levels across the entire M&E industryJust a couple of years ago, virtual production was—for the most part—only for those intrepid filmmakers and creators living right on the bleeding edge. Today, it’s taking the industry by storm. This month, we’re sharing a host of new content, resources, and events. Join us!
Sign up now for Unreal Fellowship: AnimationApplications for Unreal Fellowship: Animation are now open. Continue your path to real-time animation success with other like-minded, experienced professionals in this engaging virtual course.
Epic Bootcamp 2023: Animation applications open now for Latin American artistsAnnouncing Epic Bootcamp 2023: Animation—a free course that’ll teach you the fundamentals of real-time animation in four weeks. Classes start on May 22, 2023, so if you want in, sign up today.