Unreal Engine

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In case you missed our stream on animating in Unreal Engine 5.8 using the Zebra Sample, we've got the VoD available on the UE YouTube 🎞️ Principal Animator Jeff Gabor took us through a live animation demo and provided practical tips and insights to help level up your animation workflows. Watch it right now: youtube.com/watch?v=w0-iU6EB…

What ingredients are going into your project? Are you AutoBaking? Show us what you're cooking this #ScreenshotSaturday 📷: @Skann_bf

Starting as a moodboard centered around chateau architecture and the French countryside, this Summer Chateau Modular Kit by 3D Environment Artist @lazu1i3 was a learning exercise in model shape language, new lighting techniques and more. "For this project, I really wanted to push my lighting skills so I experimented with various different lighting and post processing effects within UE5. My tip would be to experiment with light functions! Being able to custom alphas and apply them to a light can achieve so many different effects that add extra character, depth, and story to your scene. The more you experiment, the cooler effects you'll achieve!" - Addison Bacheller

As the road to UE6 continues, we want to make sure you're learning all you need to know about UEFN 🧑‍🏫 There's still time to apply for the UEFN Professional Bootcamp. So, apply today: epic.gm/uefn-professional-bo…

Today on Inside Unreal at 2PM ET, we're joined by Colin Penty, Phil Cousins, and Kate Rayner from The Coalition to talk Gears of War: E-Day! They'll be taking us through a breakdown of the game's development journey, including how features like Nanite and Lumen influenced their approach to building assets and environments, as well as incorporating technologies like MegaLights, Motion Matching, Iris, and more: youtube.com/live/S91UEeVdspo

We’re heading to I/ITSEC 2026 - get ready to see the latest Unreal Engine innovations! 🥳 Join us to explore Unreal MCP, a Mesh Terrain demo, an interactive 3D geospatial explorer, and a GPU-accelerated LiDAR sensor simulator—plus much more: epic.gm/ue-iitsec-2026

The Summer Ends is a lighting project by Lighting Artist @FilipNoaa which captured the changing of seasons through lighting. Using PBL values as a foundation, Filip was able to capture the melancholic mood with the help of Lumen. The environment chosen for the lighting study is the Nordic Fishing Hut Environment by Studio Fjuna. "One of the things I learned through this project was that even when working within physically based parameters, there is still a lot of creative freedom in how stylistic a scene can become. It showed me that you can create very different moods and emotions while still staying within physically based lighting principles, simply by making intentional decisions about how the light interacts with the environment and guides the viewer’s eye." - Filip Noa

Futuristic FPS @NoLawTheGame is more than a cyber-noire shooter—it's a true immersive sim set in a beguiling dystopia🏙️ Discover how UE5 empowered the small team at @NeonGiantGames to achieve an exceptional level of polish with Nanite, Lumen, MetaHuman and more: epic.gm/dev-interviews-no-la…

It’s official: 5.9 is happening and it's coming in Preview next week. It’ll include improved AI workflows, web as a target platform, rendering and animation updates, plus more. We’re making a few changes in 5.9 branch over on GitHub, and more will come in over the next few days. More details coming soon!