NEWS
Unreal Challenge: Creep It Real
Express your spooky side in the latest Unreal Challenge: Creep It Real, where we encourage participants to create a spooktacular scene and be in for a chance to win cash, swag, and other goodies from KitBash3D, ArtStation, and Sketchfab!
Unreal Fellowship: World Building applications open now
The newest Fellowship class is launching, and we’ve just opened up applications for the Fall and Winter classes. Unreal Fellowship: World Building is a new three-week virtual course that centers on the core principles of real-time production design, with a special eye on the environments needed to tell a compelling story. If you’re a production designer, concept artist, or architect that wants to go deep into real-time environments, apply now.
How Netflix series The Silent Sea recreated the Moon with Unreal Engine’s ICVFX tech
The Korean Netflix series, The Silent Sea, stands out for its impressive, hyperrealistic recreation of space. Westworld leveraged the power of Unreal Engine’s in-camera VFX technology and created a 30-square-meter lunar surface set and LED walls to help them venture into a setting previously untapped by Korean dramas. Learn more about their workflow and how they utilized Unreal Engine.
No Captain Allowed! is a co-op game developed by a two-person team
We recently spoke with 9heads Game Studios about their journey into game dev!
They share the development process behind No Captain Allowed!, their recently-released roguelike co-op game, and detail how Unreal Engine and being awarded and Epic Megagrant helped their two-person team execute their vision.
Digital fashion: from concept to consumer at Timberland
The virtual and physical worlds are colliding, and forward-thinking brands are setting up shop in the metaverse. Step over to the feed to discover how an ecosystem of real-time tools is transforming how Timberland connects with consumers, opening the door to digital fashion.
Say hi to Luk.AI—a groundbreaking virtual alter-ego of NBA superstar Luka Dončić, powered by Unreal Engine 5 and MetaHuman Creator and augmented with neural network technologies. The AI now controls Dončić’s TikTok, exploring different aspects of his off-court interests and will be co-developed with fans over time, allowing them to feed into Luk.AI’s story, helping him learn new behaviors and trends in real-time by sharing content and suggestions.
COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHTS
Unreal Earth - Unreal Engine 5 Short Film
From sand-swept dunes, arctic tundras, and breathtaking coastal vistas, Thomas Thielemann has crafted this homage to Our Planet and David Attenborough In Unreal Engine, breaking the bar between what is real or Unreal!
An intimate tale of two sisters & their tenuous bond; a story of love, courage and family with David Fazzio’s latest game, that takes place in the same universe if their successful debut game, The Companion.
Take on the form of an Majestic Avian creature with the ability to journey between spiritual & corporeal realms. Collect essence, experience moments in time, and explore otherworldly landscapes. Vanquish evil that plagues the living & spiritual and restore peace to the land.
Inspired by their love of cyberpunk aesthetics, 3D Artist Manuel Arjones created their first environment in Unreal Engine!
The Scavengers didn’t decide their path; they were forced to survive on nothing while big corps thrived-living in overcrowded pollution-infested cities like rats. Those days are over, though. Arising from the ashes, they no longer live beside the pollution. They’ve become it.