It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for—it’s time to announce the winners of the 2021 Epic MegaJam. While it hasn’t been easy selecting the finalists and modifier winners due to the sheer amount of talent and inspiration on display, it has been a privilege to play every one of your wonderful creations. Now, join us as we showcase the winning games and celebrate all that you have accomplished in only seven days!

In a bid to inspire and educate artists, Mold3D Studio is sharing its decades of experience in the industry by creating a sample project for animated content. With a distinctive style that’s a hybrid of anime and realism, Slay is rendered entirely in Unreal Engine.

Real-time workflows aren’t just changing the animation production process, but the ways stories are told. On this episode of The Pulse, Dan Sarto from AWN talks with DNEG Animation, BRON Digital, and Chromosphere about the impact of real-time on animation, from storyboarding to final pixels.

Check out the new features and tools that make it easier to work on large open worlds in Unreal Engine 5. With a bird’s-eye overview of World Partition, One File Per Actor, and more, you’ll have everything you need to start creating your own open world games.

We asked 1,000 artists if they wanted to learn Unreal Engine in four weeks, and boy, did they ever! Feast your eyes on some of the incredible projects that came out of Escape’s most ambitious bootcamp to date.