Setting Up Vegetation for Alien Planet in 3D

Check Out These Free Crowd Reaction Mocap Animations

Anderson Rohr has released his June free mocap animation pack, featuring approximately 6 minutes of crowd reaction animations across 22 clips. The pack supports three skeletons: Rokoko Default, Reallusion iClone, and Manny for Unreal Engine 5. Animations cover actions like clapping, cheering, swaying, posing, and texting, suitable for games, cinematics, VFX, and other 3D projects. The pack is available for free on Gumroad.

Creating an Immersive Urban Street Scene Using Blender & Substance 3D

Environment artist Pauline Ferrand details her 15-week Urban Street project, covering her full workflow from blockout in Blender to final lighting in Unreal Engine. She explains her tileable texture creation process in Substance 3D Designer using a big-to-medium-small detail rule, her use of Vertex Color for plant color variation and wind effects, and how she split assets into wall and prop shaders with RGB masks. The post also covers her SpeedTree vegetation pipeline, ray-traced lighting setup, and a Material Parameter Collection trick to switch between dry and rainy scene variants with just two sliders.

Brad Pitt's Fight Club Look Recreated in 3D with UE5.7

3D artist Ivailo Ivanov recreated Brad Pitt's Tyler Durden look from the 1999 film Fight Club as a photorealistic real-time portrait. The character was sculpted in ZBrush, with base details and albedo sourced from TexturingXYZ, grooming handled via XGen, and the final render produced in Unreal Engine 5.7 using Lumen. The work is part of Ivanov's ongoing series of high-fidelity 3D portrait recreations.

Unreal Engine's Role In Animation Of The Wingfeather Saga

Chuyển đổi từ pipeline dựa trên Maya sang Unreal Engine 5 theo thời gian thực đã giúp loạt phim hoạt hình The Wingfeather Saga tăng gấp đôi tỷ lệ chỉnh sửa animation (từ 4% lên 10%) mà không tốn thêm chi phí, đồng thời giảm khoảng 50% chi phí sản xuất nhờ các công cụ Blueprint tùy chỉnh, Control Rig, Sequencer và shader NPR theo thời gian thực.

Là người phát triển game hoặc làm animation, bạn nên đọc bài này để hiểu cách chuyển đổi từ pipeline truyền thống sang Unreal Engine 5 không chỉ tiết kiệm chi phí mà còn nâng cao hiệu suất và linh hoạt trong việc tạo ra những hiệu ứng nghệ thuật độc đáo với chi phí thấp.

Developing Valheim-Style Creature-Collection MMO Adventure

Crema, the studio behind Temtem, shares the development story of Temtem: Pioneers, a creature-collection survival crafting MMO inspired by Valheim. The team discusses their transition from mobile to PC/console, the decision to move to Unreal Engine 5, and the creative challenge of blending survival crafting with monster-taming mechanics. Core gameplay centers on capturing, training, and battling Temtem as active survival partners, with both solo and co-op modes supported. Technical hurdles included adapting to UE5's pipeline and redesigning visual assets for an open-world camera system. The game is currently in early alpha for backers, with late pledges open on Gamefound and wishlisting available on Steam and Epic Games Store.

How to Model & Texture a Cursed Knight with Melancholic Vibes

Senior character artist Gábor Meggyesi breaks down his Cursed Knight project, a Souls-like inspired character. The workflow covers armor modeling in Maya and ZBrush using Dynamic Subdivision and custom IMM brushes, hair grooming with Ornatrix, retopology in TopoGun 3, UV unwrapping in RizomUV, and complex layered texturing in Substance 3D Painter with metal, rust, and moss materials. Final lookdev and rendering were done in Unreal Engine 5.7 with multiple light rigs, Post Process Volumes, and cinematic camera settings.

Video Game Lawyer On Legal Concerns Surrounding UE6's AI Tools

Video game lawyer Haley MacLean, speaking on the MinnMax podcast, outlines key legal concerns around Unreal Engine 6's planned native generative AI integration. The core issue is that AI-generated content cannot be copyrighted under current legal systems worldwide, which require human authorship. This creates risks around reusing AI-generated assets across multiple games and opens the door for bad-faith publishers to exploit developers — for example, by withdrawing from development contracts when AI-generated assets are involved and cannot be properly licensed.