Animation
May 5, 2026
Crafting stylized digital humans on Daughter of the Inner Stars with MetaHuman and UE5
Discover how a small team used Unreal Engine, MetaHuman, and AI to blend stylized visuals, real-time production, and high-fidelity performance capture into a cohesive pipeline for a 50-minute original symphonic orchestral experience.April 1, 2026
Unreal Engine delivers speed and cost efficiency for the new wave of kids’ animation
With the kids’ animation sector booming, indie studios have more opportunities than ever to thrive. Discover how Unreal Engine is becoming the preferred tool for kids’ animation, enabling fast iteration, rapid project turnaround, and a wide range of animation styles.March 16, 2026
Shimmer: The animated student short that reached Mexico’s biggest stage
Shimmer is an Ariel Award-winning indie short exploring a father’s obsession and its cost to his children. Discover how UE5 empowered students at Unreal Academic Partner school Escena to deliver professional-level animation.March 6, 2026
Max & the Midknights: Nickelodeon creates a stop-motion animation look with UE5
Discover how Max & the Midknights reinvented TV animation with a cinematic, stop-motion-inspired world built entirely in Unreal Engine—bringing feature-film scale, handcrafted charm, and thrilling adventure to Max’s story.February 27, 2026
Reimagining Previs and Layout for KPop Demon Hunters with Unreal Engine
What happens when real-time technology meets a global pop phenomenon? Discover how Unreal Engine transformed previs, layout, and iteration on KPop Demon Hunters.January 16, 2026
OddBot reinvents its animation pipeline for Playdate with Winnie the Pooh
Explore how OddBot embraced real-time animation in Unreal Engine to create Disney Junior’s Playdate with Winnie the Pooh—and discovered a more collaborative, creative, and fun way to produce animation.December 8, 2025
Behind the scenes of Quentin Tarantino’s The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge
Get a behind-the-scenes look at The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge, a lost scene from Kill Bill, created in Unreal Engine! Directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Uma Thurman, this new chapter brings Tarantino’s cinematic world into Fortnite for players to experience for the first time.December 8, 2025
Rotor Studios switches its automotive visualization pipeline to UE5
We caught up with Rotor Studios to find out why they’ve gone all in on Unreal Engine for automotive visualization, how UE5 systems like Substrate have changed the game—and what tips they have for other automotive visualization partners using the engine.November 10, 2025
UE5 lays the smackdown on long rendering times for WWE’s Clash in Paris
The Graphics and VFX team at WWE TV Production had just two weeks to render out 400 deliverables for the Clash in Paris wrestling extravaganza. Find out how UE5 helped them hit the deadline—and achieve a stunning Van Gogh-style look to boot.November 4, 2025
Explore Agora Studio’s new animation sample projects for Unreal Engine
Check out two brand-new animation sample projects for Unreal Engine: the A-COM Animatic Sample and A-COM Animation Sample. Created by Agora Studio, these example projects showcase how to storyboard and animate a short in Unreal Engine from scratch.October 20, 2025
How an indie animation team of four uses UE5 to produce BellyFant
BellyFant is the star of a popular children’s show on YouTube that has garnered over 50 million views. Discover how an indie team of just four uses Unreal Engine to produce the animated shorts—and how they’ve rediscovered the fun in animating to boot.August 8, 2025
Cory Williams makes hit children’s YouTube channel featuring Silly Crocodile
Content creator Cory Williams has his dream job: producing videos starring a playful crocodile for his Just For Kids channel on YouTube. Find out how a real-time pipeline helps Cory make content fast while still connecting with kids.May 29, 2025
From 1980s cartoons to the metaverse: a voyage into Spice Frontier’s retro 2D look
Discover how Steamroller Animation achieved a 2D, 1980s-cartoon aesthetic in Unreal Engine for animated show Spice Frontier—and expanded the universe of the story with a Fortnite island made in UEFN.May 8, 2025
Inside the ‘Unreal Tournament’ episode of Secret Level with Blur Studio
Find out how Blur Studio created a real-time animation pipeline from scratch for the ‘Unreal Tournament’ episode of the Amazon Prime series Secret Level, and generated movie-quality results complete with MetaHumans and special effects.April 24, 2025
Live-action studio switches to all-CG for sci-fi film Babiru
While developing an ambitious sci-fi film about a megalopolis of robots, Second Tomorrow Studios realized that Unreal Engine was just the ticket. Find out how they worked with artists around the world to create the proof of concept for Babiru.
January 10, 2025
Introducing PLAVE: the animated Korean boy band powered by Unreal Engine
PLAVE 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.December 12, 2024
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.
November 1, 2024
Academy Award®-winning animated short War Is Over! makes Unreal Engine history
Discover how Wētā FX and ElectroLeague used Unreal Engine to produce the high-quality animation and stylized look of anti-war animated short film War Is Over!, winner of the Academy Award® for Best Animated Short Film.
August 3, 2023
Award-winning short film The Voice in the Hollow takes real-time animation to dark places
The Voice in the Hollow reimagines the Cain and Abel story as a fantastical African-inspired movie short created by a small team of professionals, blending real-time 3D, 2D elements, and motion capture.
March 15, 2023
From The Lion King to fairyland: inside the beautiful world of Brave Creatures
Journey into a short that feels destined for bigger things, as we learn how an Academy Award-winner tapped Epic Ecosystem standards like UE5, Megascans, MetaHumans, and the Path Tracer to pull you into a fairy world on the brink of war.
January 26, 2023