Free tool: Character Creator UE Control Rig for Unreal Engine

Free add-on lets users pose CC characters from Reallusion's Character Creator inside UE5 using the MetaHuman interface.

Thursday, May 30th, 2024

Tutorial: Creating Cinematics in Unreal Engine 5

Master current professional real-time workflows with The Gnomon Workshop's beginner-friendly guide to using UE5 in production.

Tuesday, May 28th, 2024

Unreal Engine 5.4: five key features for CG artists

Read our pick of the new features in UE5, from Motion Graphics Mode and modular character rigging to virtual production and VFX.

Monday, April 29th, 2024

Atlux λ puts a virtual photo studio in Unreal Engine

Updated: neat plugin formerly known as MetaShoot creates portfolio renders and visualizations in a few clicks. See what's new in Atlux λ 1.1.

Thursday, March 14th, 2024

New pricing for Unreal Engine, Twinmotion and RealityCapture

Epic Games has announced new subscription-based pricing for its key software products. See who the changes affect, and when they start.

Tuesday, March 12th, 2024

Free tool: MaterialVault for Unreal Engine

VFX and visualization artist Scott Rafferty's open-source plugin gives UE5 a single unified interface to browse, edit and apply materials.

Sunday, January 21st, 2024

Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio live link for Unreal Engine

New plugin lets visualization artists use lighting design tool HDR Light Studio for more precise control over models being rendered in UE5.

Thursday, December 7th, 2023

Epic Games to start charging to use Unreal Engine for VFX

UE5 to become a 'licensable piece of software like Maya and Photoshop' for non-games work like VFX, animation and visualization.

Thursday, October 5th, 2023

Unreal Engine 5.3: five key features for CG artists

Now out of preview: read our pick of the new features in UE5, from rendering OpenVDB files to the new Skeletal and Panel Cloth Editors.

Wednesday, September 6th, 2023

Tutorial: Creating a Monolithic City in Unreal Engine 5

Create a large-scale city for VFX or cinematics work with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.

Sunday, August 6th, 2023

SkyBoxGenerator creates skyboxes inside Unreal Engine

Free plugin lets you create skyboxes by entering text prompts inside the Unreal Editor if you have a Skybox AI API key.

Tuesday, June 27th, 2023

Unreal Engine 5.2: five key features for CG artists

Read our run-down of the latest features in UE5, from procedural content and Substrate materials to Chaos Flesh.

Friday, May 12th, 2023

Use NeRFs in Unreal Engine with Luma AI's new plugin

Get volumetric captures into UE5 to use as props or environments with the plugin, currently free in alpha.

Tuesday, April 4th, 2023