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Unreal Engine 5

Check out the new features in this major update to the terrain design tool, and its new integration plugins for Houdini and Unreal Engine.

Thursday, August 1st, 2024

Now officially released: new AI tech compresses offline smoke and fire sims "up to 100x" for rendering in real time in Unreal Engine 5.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2024

Discover which of AMD's professional GPUs is best for CG work in real-world content creation and GPU rendering tests.

Thursday, July 25th, 2024

Unusual tool for creating software-agnostic animation libraries gets new AI-based markerless full-body motion-capture system

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024

Discover the key changes in the procedural 3D software: from the revolutionary Copernicus framework to rigging, animation and simulation.

Thursday, July 11th, 2024

Discover how to create an anime-style explosion effect in The Gnomon Workshop's beginner-friendly game art tutorial.

Sunday, July 7th, 2024

Markerless motion-capture software streams data live to Unreal Engine, or can post-process it to a 'AAA quality' Blender file.

Thursday, June 27th, 2024

Epic Games' new Game Animation Sample includes a library of 'AAA-quality' motion-captured animations for use in your own projects.

Wednesday, June 12th, 2024

Major update to the Maya crowds tool adds new workflows for creating shots without simulation, and a new UE5-style ML Deformer.

Thursday, June 6th, 2024

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

Tuesday, May 28th, 2024

Final versions of the now-discontinued digital nature tools are available free for commercial use. Discover their features here.

Friday, May 10th, 2024

Updated: check out the 3D clothing design software's new USD-based workflow for exporting simulations to Unreal Engine 5.4.

Monday, April 29th, 2024

Promising lightweight Blender fluids add-on can now bake simulations for export to game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine.

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024