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June 3, 2026

Join us at Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2026

We’re heading to the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this June with a selection of sessions and workshops that will explore the latest developments in real-time animation. Find out what’s on and when.

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June 2, 2026

Fab June Flash Sale is now on!

Get up to 70% off thousands of assets in the Fab June Flash Sale! You’ve got until 5 PM ET on June 5 to snag yourself a deal. Take a look at some of our sale highlights here.

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Features for film & television

Visualize, animate, edit, or power your entire production. Build stunning photoreal sets, or create uniquely stylized worlds.

From first concept to finished experience, Unreal Engine’s tried-and-trusted feature set gives you the ability to make faster decisions, collaborate in context, and realize your story’s fullest potential.

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Real-time updates for film-quality assets

With UE5’s real-time environment, you can make changes on the fly and see the results immediately—without compromising on quality. Features like Lumen dynamic global illumination and Nanite virtualized geometry mean there’s no need to wait for light maps to bake, or to throw away the tiny details that make close-ups credible.

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Dedicated virtual production tools

Developed in concert with trailblazing directors and studios, UE5’s extensive virtual production toolset brings new opportunities for creative collaboration to every stage of the filmmaking process—from location scouting and previs, through on-set production and in-camera VFX, to postvis and final pixels.

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Multi-User Editing

Cinematic editing, rigging, and animation tools

Define and modify lighting, camera blocking, characters, and set dressing on a per-shot basis in the Sequencer multitrack editor. Rig and animate directly in engine with the Skeletal Mesh animation system and Control Rig, or stream animation data from external sources like mocap or Maya with Live Link. Plus, with support for industry standards like Alembic, USD, and FBX, UE5 slots into your existing pipeline.

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Film & TV success stories

Magnopus brings Amazon’s Fallout series to life with virtual production powered by Unreal Engine

Go behind the scenes on blockbuster TV series Fallout to discover how a combination of in-camera VFX in Unreal Engine and shooting on 35mm film helped Magnopus bring this dystopian world to life.

Magnopus/Kilter Films/Amazon MGM Studios

Award-winning short film The Voice in the Hollow takes real-time animation to dark places

Blending real-time 3D, 2D elements, and motion capture, The Voice in the Hollow reimagines the Cain and Abel story as a fantastical...

Half mt studios

How Sony Pictures Imageworks created a real-time thriller for Netflix’s Love, Death + Robots

What would you do if you came face to face with Cthulhu? For the heroes in one of the goriest shorts of Love, Death + Robots yet, the answer is simple: Anything to survive.

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Screenshot from The Matrix: Resurrection

DNEG creates The Matrix Resurrections’ dojo scene with Unreal Engine

In one of the most memorable sequences from The Matrix, Morpheus teaches Neo a valuable lesson about his hidden abilities in a Japanese-style dojo.

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Independent Filmmaking

Epic Online Learning · 6 years ago

Learn how to use Unreal Engine for virtual production and post-production, bringing together all the pieces of your workflow into a unified environment to create a short film.

Movie Render Queue Essentials

Epic Online Learning · 5 years ago

In this course, you’ll learn how to use Movie Render Queue to speed up the rendering process and achieve the highest quality renders possible.

In-Engine Animation for Virtual Production

Epic Online Learning · 5 years ago

In this course, you’ll learn the process of animating characters for virtual production in Unreal Engine from end to end—without the need to jump in and out of DCC applications.

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