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Turtle Tech Art • October 10, 2025

Hey Turtles,

In this edition of The Shell we'll be discussing a some of the new features to look out for in the latest Unreal Engine preview, our North America and Europe Art meetups, a new technical environment art project showcase, and more!

Unreal 5.7 Preview

With the recent public release of the Unreal 5.7 Preview, we thought we should take a look at some of the new features that technical artists of different specializations should explore.

PCG

With 5.7 the PCG Framework is finally becoming Production Ready! With this change come a new PCG Editor mode that contains a library of already created PCG tools made for worldbuilding. Along with these changes a new experimental plugin for Procedural Vegetation is being released.

Technical Animation

5.7 brings a ton of new improvements to various sections of the animation/rigging pipeline. Some of the most notable include World Collision for Control Rig Physics, new Blend Shape & Sculpting Tools, and a MetaHuman Creator Python/Blueprint API.

Shaders & Materials

Substrate materials are now officially production ready. They offer a more modular, physically grounded material framework than previous engine versions.

Pipeline

The existing HLOD pipeline is being updated to add support for Custom HLODs, whcih allow users to provide their own HLOD representation for individual/groups of actors

All these changes and more can be found and experimented with by exploring Epic's UE Roadmap and by downloading the 5.7 Preview on the Epic Games Launcher

Upcoming Events

We'll be hosting our North Ameria Tech Art Meetup on Tuesday October 21st at 7 PM PST.

Join us on the discord!

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We'll be hosting a European Tech Art Meetup on Thursday October 30th at 7 PM GMT.

Join us on the discord!

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Community Spotlight

Forest Stream Environment

Joey Clemente recently released his latest environment scene which showcases his PBL lighting study as well as the new white water simulations in UE 5.6 while utilizing lighting optimizations

Check it out here!

Want to be featured? Submit your project here!

Tutorials

Editor Utility Widgets

In this tutorial, learn how to create an Editor Utility Widget tools in Unreal 5

Link to tutorial

Procedural Rigging and Animation in Unity

Learn the fundamentals of the character animation pipeline

Link to tutorial

Job Postings

Company Title

Role Title

Region

EA SPORTS Technology

Technical Artist (Rigging)

Warner Bros. Discovery

Sr. Unreal Tech Artist

Riot Games

Sr. Technical Artist, Characters

Volmi Studio (Virtuos)

Technical Artist

Jobs sourced from gamejobs.co

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