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December 18, 2025

December’s Epic learning content: animation, world creation, and more

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MetaHuman

MetaHuman Animator

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The Witcher 4 UE5 Tech Demo

Tutorials

Holiday season is upon us, and we’ve got plenty for you to unwrap. That’s right—it’s the gift of free Epic learning content!

Check out a sleigh-load of tutorials, online courses, and how-to guides that cover advanced animation, world creation, Hollywood-level cinematics, and much more.

New Epic Games tutorials

Your First Hour in Unreal Engine 5.7

In this newly updated course, Luke Anderton of Tinkr Academy takes you through the process of building your very first game in Unreal Engine 5.7, providing all the essential knowledge you’ll need to start building video games in UE. The course is aimed at complete beginners—even if you’ve never written a line of code before, you can get started here.

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Epic’s free learning courses for December.

Animation Hub

Explore the new Animation Hub: your dedicated space for mastering advanced techniques and deepening your knowledge of linear animation creation in Unreal Engine. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of animation, from rigging to rendering, simulation, and beyond.

Take a look

Animation Hub: online courses for animating in Unreal Engine.

Blueprint Tutorial: Virtual Incident Light Meter in Unreal Engine

This guide walks you through the process of creating a Blueprint-powered virtual incident light meter: a tool that measures physical light levels in your Unreal Engine scene and tells you how bright it is in real-world terms.

Blueprint Tutorial: Virtual Incident Light Meter in Unreal Engine.

MetaHuman Animator best practices

In this tutorial, you’ll learn the best practices for getting the highest-quality facial capture using MetaHuman Animator and a webcam. We’ll cover everything from what plugins are required and how to set up the drivers for the webcam, to leveraging Livelink Hub and the importance of good lighting.

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Tutorial: Blender to UE5 workflow using USD

This tutorial will walk you through the steps of exporting a scene from Blender to Unreal Engine 5 using Universal Scene Description (USD), focusing on the key concepts and pipeline to streamline your workflow. The goal is to efficiently transfer assets from Blender to Unreal Engine for real-time rendering and interactive scene editing.

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Tutorial: Blender to UE5 workflow using USD.

Courtesy of jsabbott

How to Create Cinematics in Unreal the Right Way

In this two-part tutorial, Zoltan Cseri, Senior Unreal Developer at PLATIGE IMAGE, will guide you step by step on how to create stunning cinematic shots—from project setup to final render. Perfect for beginners and pros alike, these techniques will instantly elevate your Unreal Engine projects and help you achieve results that feel straight out of a professional studio.

Part 1 Part 2

How to Create Cinematics in Unreal the Right Way.

Courtesy of Zoltan Cseri

Building a PCG Biome Generator in Unreal Engine: A Step-by-Step Workflow

This two-part article by ICVR will teach you how to create a scalable, loop-based PCG biome generator entirely inside Unreal Engine. By combining Structures, Data Assets, and PCG Graph logic, the system turns environment creation into a modular, data-driven workflow that adapts to varied terrains, actor types, and mesh sets.

Part 1 Part 2

Building a PCG Biome Generator in Unreal Engine.

Courtesy of ICVR

How to Add CG Characters and Digital Assets to Live Action

In this two-part tutorial by Dean Yurke, you’ll learn how to use Composure: Unreal Engine’s powerful real-time compositing tool that enables you seamlessly blend live-action footage (like green-screened actors) with virtual 3D environments and CGI, creating complex visual effects in-engine for applications including virtual production, AR, and live broadcasts.

Part 1 Part 2

Courtesy of Dean Yurke

Epic talks and demos

101 Unreal Engine Tips & Tricks: The Reckoning

In 2019, five Unreal Engine evangelists gathered at Unreal Fest Prague to deliver an ambitious talk: 100 UE4 Tips and Tricks. Spoiler alert: they didn’t quite make it. In this video, Epic Games’ own Ari Arnbjörnsson attempts to finish what they started, but now in UE5. Watch this session recorded at Unreal Fest Stockholm for 101 Unreal Engine tips and tricks—for real, this time.

Learn more

101 Unreal Engine Tips & Tricks: The Reckoning.

Large-Scale Animated Foliage in The Witcher 4 Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo

In this session recorded at Unreal Fest Stockholm, we explore the challenges of rendering large-scale animated forests in The Witcher 4 Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo, and how they were ultimately solved.

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