Wysilab wins Epic MegaGrant for Instant Terra
Money will help fund development of an Unreal Engine live link plugin for the terrain generation software.
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
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Maxon awarded $200,000 Epic MegaGrant
Money will fund development of a Cineware-style live link between Cinema 4D and Unreal Engine.
Thursday, September 10th, 2020
Unity Technologies files for IPO
Unity has 1.5 million users and is used to create over half the games released, but the firm still made a loss of $163.2 million last year.
Tuesday, August 25th, 2020
Unity to pay $120,000/year to fund Blender development
Donation to the open-source 3D app's dev fund will help fund 20 full-time core Blender developers.
Sunday, August 23rd, 2020
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2020.2
Intuitive real-time visualisation tool gets new animation features, better water and vehicle paint materials.
Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
Microsoft becomes latest tech giant to back Blender
Strings-free €30,000/year donation will help pay for new Blender staff - now including non-developers.
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
Epic Games will pay you $10,000 to learn Unreal Engine
New Unreal Fellowship program will pay VFX and games pros to do four weeks of online UE4 training.
Tuesday, July 21st, 2020
Epic Games releases official Blender to Unreal Engine tools
Transfer rigged characters between Blender and UE4 with free plugins Send to Unreal and UE to Rigify.
Wednesday, July 15th, 2020
Epic Games releases free iOS app Live Link Face for UE4
Impressive free app streams facial animation from an iPhone to a 3D character in the game engine.
Thursday, July 9th, 2020
Download over 50 free 3D scanned plants and rocks
Get NatureManufacture's pack of 3D models of meadow plants and trees free on the UE4 marketplace.
Wednesday, July 8th, 2020
Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Unreal Update 3
Plugin transfers scenes created in other editions of V-Ray to UE4 for rendering. Check out what's new.
Thursday, June 25th, 2020
Get 150+ free automotive materials for Unreal Engine
Download free car paint, metal and glass materials optimised for the new features in Unreal Engine.
Sunday, June 21st, 2020
Reallusion wins Epic MegaGrant
Game tools developer wins funding from Epic Games. Its iClone Unreal Live Link is free to indie users.
Monday, May 18th, 2020