April 23, 2025

April’s free Epic learning content: animation, 3D scanning, HMI, and more.

Animation Automotive & Transportation Games HMI Learning RealityCapture Tutorials

Spring is well and truly underway, and we’re here to plant seeds of Unreal Engine wisdom in the bountiful garden of your brain. That’s right—it’s time for this month’s free Unreal Engine learning content.

Check out these courses on animation, 3D scanning, motion design, and much more.

New Epic tutorials

Crash Course: Making an Animation In-Engine with an In-Engine Rig

This course walks you through how to create a Control Rig for a character with modules, then use Sequencer to animate the Control Rig and save out the animation into a format that can play back on the character.

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Programming Tutorials

Check out these programming tutorials—made by our very own Unreal Authorized Instructors—and learn about working with Blueprints, creating quest locators, programming AI systems in Unreal Engine, and much more.

RealityCapture Tutorials

Learn how to 3D scan an object using RealityCapture on your smartphone, then bring it into your Unreal Engine projects as a 3D model. The whole process takes just 20 minutes!

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10 Tips for a Successful Unreal Project from Day One

Courtesy of AmrHamed

In this tutorial, Gameplay Programmer AmrHamed provides insights into the things he wishes he had known when starting out in Unreal Engine, including tips on code architecture, source control, automating repetitive tasks, and more.

Dive in AmrHamed

Courtesy of AmrHamed

Unreal Engine Motion Design—Procedural Animation

Courtesy of Hussin Khan

Whether you're a seasoned motion graphic artist or a complete newcomer to motion design, this video is for you. Join Unreal Authorized Instructor Hussin Khan as he explores how the tools in Unreal Engine 5.4 can elevate your motion graphics projects to the next level.

Get started Hussin Khan

Courtesy of Hussin Khan

Unreal Engine 5.5 Material Designer

Courtesy of Nick Jushchyshyn

Learn from a master as Nick Jushchyshyn, Mocap/Virtual Production Professor at Drexel University, demonstrates the power of the Material Designer in Unreal Engine 5.5's Motion Design plugin, with a focus on opaque materials like metals, cloth, and emissive lighting materials.

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Courtesy of Nick Jushchyshyn

Epic talks and demos

Audio Workflows and Tips for Indie Projects | Unreal Fest 2024

Courtesy of Nando Cordeiro

Watch this recorded session from Unreal Fest Seattle 2024 in which freelance indie developer Nando Cordeiro discusses how he’s used UE5’s audio features such as MetaSounds, the Soundscape plugin, and more in his work on indie games, including the multiplayer survival horror game Dirge.

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Courtesy of Nando Cordeiro

Tech Session: Automotive HMI Development Tips and Tricks | Unreal Fest 2024

Recorded at Unreal Fest Seattle 2024, this session takes a deep tech dive into the latest Unreal Engine 5 features for automotive HMI development. Learn the key things to look out for from both a designer’s and a developer’s point of view when it comes to creating world-class HMI products.

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