Introducing UE5

What is UE5 and why would you want to use it to create 3D movies?

UE5 is a state-of-the-art, real-time 3D game engine and editor that can be used to create games and digital media, such as 3D movies.

While other 3D software such as Blender, Maya, and 3ds Max are true content creators where you can model, UV map, and texture from scratch, UE uses pre-made 3D assets instead of creating them.

For example, you could use UE5 to take 3D assets that you have made in Blender and then build a game or 3D movie set, animate them, and render a 3D movie's frames by using Unreal Engine's Sequencer.

Before you delve deeper into our introduction, take a quick look at the official UE5 information page: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/unreal-engine-5.

Note

Rendering describes the process during which 3D software generates an image by using a mesh, its materials. and the lighting in the scene for its calculation. In films and animations, a frame is one still...