October learning content: game development, animation, and film production

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The October batch of free Epic learning content is here!

From designing puzzle adventures and optimizing physics performance to mastering temporal rendering and building cinematic rigs, this month’s lineup covers a broad range of topics across game development, animation, and film production.

Dive in today and start sharpening your skills.

New Epic Games tutorials

Design a Puzzle Adventure

This tutorial series takes you through the design process of building a level and several puzzles using Blueprints to create a completely playable gameplay experience. It covers project setup, level blockouts, and gameplay mechanics, as well as demonstrating how to script interaction systems like keys, doors, switches, and moving platforms, and implement mechanics like sprinting.

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UE tutorial: Design a Puzzle Adventure tutorial

A Tech Artist’s Playbook for Chaos Performance

Check out this handy guide that will steer you in the right direction when it comes to optimizing the Chaos settings and asset-authoring options that most impact physics performance. You’ll cover strategies like geometry simplification, clustering, fracture control, and the effective use of fields and anchors.

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A Tech Artist’s Playbook for Chaos Performance.

Temporal Quality Guide

Temporal artifacts are visual distortions caused by errors when information from multiple frames is combined over time. This article highlights some common pitfalls with Lumen and Temporal Super Resolution that lead to unwanted temporal artifacts—and outlines how to reduce them. Dive in to learn how to balance visual quality and performance using temporal techniques.

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A Simple Spline Animation Rig for Cinematics

Every cinematic project needs simple and nimble rigs to work quickly and efficiently. If it takes too long to set up, it’s not worth the time to do it. Vehicles, VFX, characters, and custom lighting setups can all leverage these reusable rigs, which can be quickly added to any scene and animated by anyone on the team. Read this guide on how to create a car rig that respects the topology of the ground, but also changes on the fly.

A Simple Spline Animation Rig for Cinematics.

Optimizing Environment Assembly in Unreal Engine

This three-part series examines how plugins like Dash, IA Scatter, and Spline Tool Pro enhance environment assembly in Unreal Engine. Each tool offers distinct advantages—from rapid procedural generation to natural asset scattering and precision spline modeling—that reduce repetitive tasks and free artists to focus on creative polish.

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UE series: Optimizing Environment Assembly in Unreal Engine.

Courtesy of @ICVR

Unreal Basics for Filmmakers: Previs and Storyboards

This series of Getting Started videos explores how filmmakers can use Unreal Engine for previs and creating rough storyboards and shot compositions. Aimed at complete beginners, the series is designed to give a broad overview of creating a world in Unreal Engine with Fab assets. In addition, it outlines how to work with lights, create cameras, and use the basic UE mannequins to set character poses for storyboarding or previsualization of film sets and cinematography.

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UE series: Unreal Basics for Filmmakers: PreVis and Storyboards.

Courtesy of @dgazdowicz

Intro to Interfaces in Unreal Engine – Blueprint Communication Made Simple

In this Unreal Engine tutorial, we explore how to use Blueprint Interfaces to create clean, modular communication between different Actors in your game. You’ll learn how Interfaces enable Blueprints to send and receive messages—without needing direct references—making your projects easier to scale and manage.

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UE tutorial: Intro to Interfaces in Unreal Engine.

Courtesy of @Don_H

Epic talks and demos

Control Rig: Tips & Tricks for Linear Content

Recorded at Unreal Fest Orlando 2025, this lab explores powerful features in Control Rig to help creators build rigs faster, add unique functionality, and reuse setups across multiple skeletal meshes.

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