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Unreal Engine 5.5 is now availableThis release brings major enhancements to animation authoring, rendering, virtual production, mobile game development, and developer iteration toolsets—and much, much more.
Introducing PLAVE: the animated Korean boy band powered by Unreal EnginePLAVE are a K-Pop band with a twist—the bandmembers are digital humans and their performances are rendered entirely in Unreal Engine. Discover how VLAST combines motion capture, real-time rendering, and UE’s animation tools to wow PLAVE’s fans.
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 UE learning content: Blueprint, motion design, and more
Make the most of your holiday season downtime with this month’s batch of free Unreal Engine learning content, covering Blueprint, motion design, real-time lighting, and much more.
Moment Factory redefines live concerts with real-time visuals for Phish at Sphere
Discover how adopting a video game approach made it possible to deliver immersive visuals that could follow Phish’s virtuoso musical improv in real time for four musically and visually unique shows at Sphere.
Fungi-inspired art with real-time lighting illuminates Burning ManExplore how a team of Columbian women represented their country with artwork at the Burning Man festival for the first time—and why Unreal Engine and Twinmotion were key in designing the fungi-themed installation.
Apply for a speaker slot at Unreal Fest Orlando 2025Want to present a session at Unreal Fest Orlando 2025? Call for Proposals is now open. If you have a project built using Epic tools to showcase, or technical insights you think the community would benefit from, we want to hear from you.
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.
Spring Creator Sale 2024: Up to 70% off over 25,000 productsSpring has sprung, and that means it’s time for the Spring Creator Sale 2024. Get up to 70% off thousands of products from the Unreal Engine Marketplace, ArtStation, and Sketchfab until April 18.
Join Epic Games and our partners at NAB 2024Over 30 companies are showing off Unreal Engine-driven tech and services at NAB 2024. Here's a quick rundown of who’s coming and where to find them, so you know where to go. Check it out.
Welcome to the new Unreal Engine websiteIt’s a new design, and a lot more. Learn about the changes we’ve made to put our community’s needs at the center of our web experience.
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.
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.
Epic MegaGrants: 2023 recapAs Epic MegaGrants enters its fifth year, the community continues to be as innovative as ever. Here, we take a look back at the last 12 months’ highlights—which included opening up the program to UEFN alongside Unreal Engine—and share some projects that stood out.
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.
Unreal Fest 2023 livestream recordings now available!That's a wrap! This year's Unreal Fest was bigger and better than ever, featuring 200 new sessions over three packed days. We'll be making recordings of all the sessions available in the coming weeks and months; meanwhile, you can view the 40 we livestreamed here.
Unreal Engine 5.3 is now available!This release brings numerous wide-ranging improvements, together with some exciting new Experimental features, as we continue to expand UE5’s functionality and potential for game developers and creators across industries. Find out what’s new.
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.
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.
Unreal Engine 5.2 brings native support for Apple Silicon and other developments for macOSStarting with Unreal Engine 5.2, the Unreal Editor for macOS is built and distributed as a universal binary, providing native support for past-generation Intel-based and current-generation Apple Silicon-based Macs in a single package. This tech blog will explain what that means for you.