Making Lattes in UE5 ☕ Ryan Smith shared a new Unreal Engine-powered demo that looks gorgeous. The developer decided to imagine a game where you could make lattes and paint on top with foam. Cozy has a new meaning.

Impressive mocap results inside Unreal Engine 5 🖐 Beatrice Schmidt demonstrated the results of experiments with motion capture for body and face inside UE5. The artist used the Xsens mocap suit and Faceware's facial capture system to capture movements. The data was then retargeted to the character's skeleton with some manual tweaks for smooth finger movement.

Downloadable Procedural Forest For UE5 🌲 MAWI United GmbH released Meadow Forest Trees Biome, a new procedural environment asset pack for Unreal Engine 5 that can be used for games and other 3D projects. The set features over 170 photogrammetry-made models and textures of trees, rocks, debris, and plants (Nanite by default).

Juicy 3D lemons in Blender 🍋 Omar Faruq Tawsif shared a new still-life artwork that looks like something 2D. The work is inspired by one of Madeleine Bellwoar's digital paintings, depicting several lemons featuring amazing hand-painted textures. 100% Blender.

Physically-correct slime simulator in Unreal Engine 5 💚 I'm always excited about new posts from Asher Zhu. The developer is just on another level of technical brilliance. Check out a new demo of a slime project being developed with Unreal Engine 5. The author noted that slime is an extremely difficult engineering problem to solve, but the demos look amazing already.

Fire mage in Blender 🔥 Another amazing example of why presentation matters. Check out this new work by 3D Artist Jörg Grubmüller who has recently presented Fire Mage, a 3D character animation inspired by one of Guille Rancel's character illustrations. 100% Blender.

The 'how to draw an owl' meme is now a reality 🦉 So many stories today but I had to share one more. Remember that meme about drawing an owl? Well, there’s a new online generative tool with an easy-to-use interface where you just write a prompt and then draw some shapes. So yeah, you can just draw a circle and the AI will paint the rest of the owl. Test it for free: https://t.co/zZJHcULuiU

Creating photorealistic 3D eyes in Maya and Mari 👁 Tom Newbury released a new tutorial on 3D human eyes showing how to create digital "windows to the soul". You will learn about modeling the eye while referencing realistic proportions, fitting the eye to the face of your character accurately, creating materials for the eye, and more.

Face controls for anime-style characters in Blender 🖤 Dillon Goo shared a look at flexible face controls behind an anime-style character created for an animation project in Blender. Most of it is done manually.

A stop-motion animation that is actually a 3D scene 🐭 If you see this video for the first time you might think that's just another cool stop-motion project. The thing is you would be wrong. The animation was made by Reddit user TheCKLu in Blender. How cool is that?