Realtime Production with Ozone Story Tech

I am very excited to announce that Ozone Story Tech Subdivs for Unreal Engine has officially launched! Any Skeletal Mesh can now be converted to an Ozone Subdiv... allowing traditional Film / TV modeling and rigging subdivision surface workflows to work directly in engine. Some key wins: 1-1 asset conversion from traditional subdiv pipelines into engine for rendering. No modeling changes required. Resolution independent assets, allowing for progressive quality adjustment as needed. LOD forward vs traditional subtractive LODs. Subdiv meshes are less dense which makes them lighter on disk, faster to load and much easier to model, rig and art direct. 4-16x fewer vertices need to be managed. And much more :) If you are an Animation or Game Studio using Unreal Game Engine... download, try and buy here: https://lnkd.in/gD_eeNXp Rob Di Figlia Ben Minall Chase Cooper Fredrik Nilsson Duncan Burbidge Paul Doyle William Vaughan Vaishak Purushothaman Douglas Bell Quentin Defrance Reel FX Animation Ryan McNeely Eric Soulvie Jason Bickerstaff Brad Clark Atomic Cartoons Mark Andrews Daniel Urbach Brian Rausch Henning Sanden

The "floating hand" problem of two-hand weapon animations breaks immersion and looks like a bug. UnrealEngine's animation blueprint makes it easy to apply IK to an arm, so it works beautifully in-game. Hint #1: Apply Two-bone IK to the right arm as well, to better stabilize the system. Hint #2: Feed the IK(s) Alpha (interpolation) with a float variable, then after you switch to the weapon, interpolate that variable along time (0.5s usually works) for a smoother transition. Epic Games Vertex School

Ever wondered how you build a first-person shooter that looks like a 1930s cartoon? That's exactly what Fumi Games pulled off with MOUSE: P.I. For Hire a noir FPS rendered in classic "rubber hose" animation style, built in Unity. The premise: You play as Jack Pepper, a war veteran turned private eye in the corrupt city of Mouseberg It started as a single sketch by art director Michal Rostek The whole world blends hand-drawn 2D art with 3D environments The challenge: Mixing 2D sprites with 3D worlds is a technical nightmare clipping, draw calls, and memory all fight you Recreating a 1930s animation style in a playable FPS had never really been done The results: 🎨 54,000+ hand-drawn animated sprites brought the world to life ⚡ 80–100% performance boosts via Hierarchical Level of Detail (HLODs) 💾 50–80% memory savings through a custom sprite compression solution with publisher PlaySide Studios The takeaway: A bold creative vision and clean technical execution aren't opposites The most distinctive-looking games are usually the ones that solved the hardest problems under the hood #GameDev #Unity #IndieGames #GameDesign #Animation #TechArt

Epic Games released UE 5.7! It's a massive update for environment artists and animators. Nanite Voxels allows for rendering incredibly dense, massive-scale foliage (like forests or ground clutter) without needing to author LODs, eliminating cross-fades and pop-in. This is a game-changer for open-world performance. They've also integrated industry-standard sculpting workflows directly into the Skeletal Editor, making building complex rigs with dozens of blend shapes far more efficient. It also introduces one-way physics world collisions for better ragdoll and interaction testing. This update pushes procedural generation and high-fidelity open worlds closer to real-time baseline expectations. Read the full UE 5.7 Release Notes here: https://lnkd.in/e8tnMwVt #UnrealEngine #GameDevelopment #3DDesign #Animation #VirtualProduction

Yo! Are you trying to build crowds in Unreal with skeletal meshes…? This will tank your FPS. There’s a better way. VATs (Vertex Animation Textures) let you render thousands of characters in real-time with almost no performance hit. Super underrated workflow. Here is a small presentation on VATs. But if you are ready for a 45minutes in depth tutorial in Unreal Engine , check my channel! https://lnkd.in/ehEtmrCh Curious if you’ve used VATs before 👽🤔

Excited to share a peek from my latest with Sohaib Mostafa, we worked on for Almarai — created for their collaboration inside Roblox. This AI-powered project blends real gameplay moments with stylized 3D animated scenes, transforming parts of the in-game experience into a vibrant farm world filled with cute characters and playful kid-friendly visuals. The goal was to keep the charm and energy of the original gameplay while adding a more cinematic animated touch. Really enjoyed working on the animation and helping bring this world to life. Watch the full video on https://lnkd.in/gKfb69nX

Proud to share a new look at ROTTED – A Brain Rot Simulator 🎮 , our upcoming game developed by the team at Sector4 Interactive In this showcase, we’re highlighting two interactive in-game task systems, dishwashing and laundry mechanics, designed to make the gameplay world feel more immersive and alive. Alongside these interactions, we’re also presenting some of the atmosphere and technical work behind the experience, including detailed interior environments, particle systems, lighting, shaders, animations, and overall visual polish. Everything shown here takes place inside a single room, where gameplay mechanics and environmental storytelling work together to create the unique feel of ROTTED – A Brain Rot Simulator. We’ll be launching on Steam soon, and your support can make a huge difference for our team. Please consider wishlisting the game here: Wishlist on Steam - https://lnkd.in/gFxAZXDH #GameDev #IndieGame #3DArt #GameDesign #EnvironmentArt #Animation #VFX #Roguelike #SteamGames

😜 𝐓𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐨 : Unreal Engine 5.8 just leveled up #Character #Animation!! #ControlRig #Dynamics brings fast, intuitive physics directly into your rigs, no heavy setup, no complexity. From tails & ears to face and full body secondary motion, you can now, Spawn dynamic solvers in seconds, build and control chains with ease, fine-tune behavior using particles & curves!! Enjoy! https://lnkd.in/eaEc7tvf #unrealengine #realtimeanimation Epic Games

In this course, we create a basic torch using Niagara in Unreal Engine and attach it to the character’s hand with correct animation and motion, making it feel natural in gameplay. Checkout The Full Course: https://lnkd.in/dFiWA32x

Testing the new Dynamics – Particle Based Physics for Control Rig plugin in Unreal Engine. Really impressed with how quickly secondary motion can be added directly inside Control Rig. The setup feels lightweight, intuitive, and very fast for prototyping dynamic animation behaviors in gameplay rigs. Excited to explore more possibilities for real-time character workflows. #UnrealEngine #UE5 #ControlRig #TechnicalAnimation #GameDev #Animation #Rigging #RealtimeAnimation #GameplayAnimation #UnrealEngine5 #TechArt #GameDevelopment