SKYE RUSSELL: Hey Folks, and welcome to this week's News and Community
Spotlight.
Have you explored The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5
Experience on your next-gen console?
Be sure to dive into this reality-bending experience
before it leaves on July 9.
If you've already claimed it, you will still be able to access it
or re-download it after this date!
For July's free Marketplace content, we've
partnered with Game from Scratch and their community
for a hand-picked pack of goodies to help you develop your next game.
Create infinite lightweight VFX to fit any situation before crashing
your way to success with deformation tools,
whilst crafting your next fantastical frontier environment with the Wild
West City in the Sky--and with two highly customizable gameplay
frameworks to build the foundation of your next Turn-Based or Point
and Click adventure it's a 'driven' that you'll be able to take wheel
towards your next project.
Speaking of which, a selection of unique vehicles
have parked themselves into our permanently free collection.
Grab all these goodies while you can, on the Unreal Engine Marketplace.
You can shape the future of animation!
We've added a ton of new animation tutorials, guides, and samples.
So get up to speed and dive into the new Animation Field Guide,
explore the Slay sample project and brush up on everything animation
with our latest courses at unrealengine.com/feed.
While there, get started with out-of-the-box features,
functionality, and more.
Thanks to our Epic partners, there are many new Unreal Engine plugins
that can help enhance your real-time animation pipeline!
Miss out on Short Nite?
Learn how Unreal Engine's animation tools
were used for Little Bird, Two, and Mall Stories,
the three unique short films featured during Fortnite's in-game film
festival.
Head to the feed to get all the details
and to watch the featured short films, in full!
Did Animation Week leave you with questions?
We've got you covered--join us for Ask Unreal Anything: Animation,
where we'll be joined by folks from the awesome UE animation team
on July 13th at 11 AM eastern.
Come prepared to ask us, well, anything animation!
Find out more on the forums.
If you are wondering how Unreal Engine 5 can supercharge
architectural visualization--then don't miss our upcoming webinar
in which we'll demonstrate the technological advances in UE5 that
are beneficial to the architecture community.
Sign up and join us on July 20!
Featuring fantastic character work and diverse environments with
a myriad of biomes, all topped off with superb animation befitting
a top-notch anime--Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds developed by Netmarble pulled
off incredible feats using Unreal Engine tools like Sequencer,
Animation Blueprints, Material Editor, Live Coding and more.
We spoke with the team about how these
were instrumental to the game's development and their dream
of a story-driven MMORPG experience.
Read about it on the feed!
Stomping over to this week's Community Spotlights
with the Epic MegaGrant awarded prehistoric action-adventure game
by Hashbane Interactive!
Take on treacherous and beautiful beasts
in search of ancient artifacts left by an unknown civilization long
since gone, or so it seems!
Embark on the unforgettable journey steeped in an intense explorative
story with Instinction!
Wishlist now, on Steam.
Nan Yang has created this stunning stylized Ghibli-Esque hommage
to Breath of the Wild, based on a painted concept by Donglu Yu.
It is said the wind blows through the alleys by cannot take away
the fragrance of flowers ever-present in this idyllic village.
Skip over to their ArtStation page, and let them
know what you think of Flower Alley.
Have you ever heard a track that makes your bones rock out and have
a mind of their own?
That's exactly what this phenomenally metal music video will do!
Videogame Composer Danimal Cannon crafted this video
for 'Escape', which is a part of a three-song collection called
MASSIVE, all composed for the game Soundfall.
Listen and watch the full video on their Youtube channel.
Thanks for watching, catch you next week!