NEWS
You have until July 9 to download The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience
Have you explored The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience on your next-gen console? Be sure to dive into this reality-bending experience before it leaves on July 9. If you’ve already claimed it, you will still be able to access it or re-download it after this date!
Featured free Marketplace content—July 2022
For July’s free Marketplace content, we’ve partnered with Game from Scratch and their community for a hand-picked pack of goodies to help you develop your next game.
Create infinite lightweight VFX to fit any situation before crashing your way to success with deformation tools, whilst crafting your next fantastical frontier environment with the Wild West City in the Sky–and with two highly customizable gameplay frameworks to build the foundation of your next Turn-Based or Point and Click adventure it’s a ‘driven’ that you’ll be able to take wheel towards your next project. Speaking of which, a selection of unique vehicles have parked themselves into our permanently free collection. Grab all these goodies while you can.
Real-time character animation training roundup: free resources
You can shape the future of animation! We’ve added a ton of new animation tutorials, guides, and samples. So get up to speed and dive into the new Animation Field Guide, explore the Slay sample project and brush up on everything animation.
Boost your Unreal Engine animation production pipeline with these plugins
Get started with out-of-the-box features, functionality, and more. Thanks to our Epic partners, there are many new Unreal Engine plugins that can help enhance your real-time animation pipeline!
Explore three animated shorts from Fortnite’s film festival
Learn how Unreal Engine’s animation tools were used for Little Bird, Two, and Mall Stories, the three unique short films featured during Fortnite’s in-game film festival.
Ask Unreal Anything: Animation
Join us for Ask Unreal Anything: Animation, where we’ll be joined by folks from the awesome UE animation team on July 13th at 11 AM eastern. Come prepared to ask us, well, anything animation!
Unreal Engine 5 for Architecture Webinar Announcement
If you are wondering how Unreal Engine 5 can supercharge architectural visualization–then don’t miss our upcoming webinar in which we’ll demonstrate the technological advances in UE5 that are beneficial to the architecture community. Sign up and join us on July 20!
Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds pushes the boundaries of what a mobile MMORPG can be
Featuring fantastic character work and diverse environments with a myriad of biomes, all topped off with superb animation befitting a top-notch anime–Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds developed by Netmarble pulled off incredible feats using Unreal Engine tools like Sequencer, Animation Blueprints, Material Editor, Live Coding and more.
We spoke with the team about how these were instrumental to the game’s development and their dream of a story-driven MMORPG experience.
COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHTS
Epic MegaGrant awarded prehistoric action-adventure game by Hashbane Interactive!
Take on treacherous and beautiful beasts in search of ancient artifacts left by an unknown civilization long since gone, or so it seems! Embark on the unforgettable journey steeped in an intense explorative story with Instinction!
Nan Yang has created this stunning stylized Ghibli-Esque hommage to Breath of the Wild, based on a painted concept by Donglu Yu. It is said the wind blows through the alleys by cannot take away the fragrance of flowers ever-present in this idyllic village.
DANIMAL CANNON - Escape (Official Music Video)
Have you ever heard a track that makes your bones rock out and have a mind of their own? That’s exactly what this phenomenally metal music video will do! Videogame Composer Danimal Cannon crafted this video for ‘Escape’, which is a part of a three-song collection called MASSIVE, all composed for the game Soundfall.