With little character animation experience, solo developer Bilal Urwani set out to build a complete melee combat system using Cascadeur and Unreal Engine 5. Now available on Fab, his OG Realistic Combat System includes more than 140 animations. He takes us behind the scenes of this ambitious project, sharing hard-earned lessons and practical tips for developers and animators creating combat animations of their own.

Cascadeur 2026.2 is now available, introducing Additive Animation Layers in Alpha, new Easing controls, and interface localization in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The release also improves AutoPosing for characters and quadrupeds, enhances Collision Penetration Cleaning, and expands Cascadeur’s Python API.

Bring It is a chaotic food delivery game inspired by the arcade energy of Crazy Taxi - full of drifts, stunts, crashes, and exaggerated character animation. Halil Onur Yazıcıoğlu from Team Machiavelli shares how, despite having no prior 3D animation experience, he used Cascadeur to build fast, expressive animations for bikers, NPCs, and vehicles,

Cascadeur 2026.1 is now available, bringing a fully integrated Filament Rendering Engine, a new Unreal Engine Live Link, and an AI-powered Root Motion Tool for motion style transfer and generation. The update also introduces Collision Penetration Cleaning, Constraints in AutoPhysics, and major improvements to Quadruped AutoPosing.

How do you animate stillness? In Her Majesty, animator and VFX student Tony Petroff explores subtle body language, silence, and micro-movements to bring a grounded character to life. In this breakdown, he shares how Cascadeur helped shape realistic motion, why he animated for the character rather than the camera, and how exploration sometimes matters more than precision.

ALATURKA is a solo-developed, old-school open-world action game set in a fictionalized 1970s Istanbul. In this article, Unreal Authorized Instructor Burak Akşahin shares how the project evolved from an educational experiment into a living documentation of indie game development—and how switching to Cascadeur helped him overcome one of his biggest challenges: creating weighty, believable animations as a non-animator.

Cascadeur 2025.3 is now available, lifting your animation workflow to the next level by fully integrating Inbetweening interpolation and introducing Quadruped support for AutoPosing and Quick Rigging (Alpha). For the first time, we are also offering an early experimental build using Filament Renderer as a separate download - giving you a preview of Cascadeur’s future rendering capabilities!

Dynasthir is a dark, medieval-fantasy action adventure shaped by more than ten years of development. Indie developer Ulfgang Bristall describes how the game’s animations evolved over time, and how working with Cascadeur since its Closed Beta became a core part of his workflow. His insights show how a two-person team can now build complex, animation-driven game worlds that once required large studio pipelines.

Cascadeur has received an Epic MegaGrant, which we’ll use to develop a dedicated Unreal Engine Live Link plugin. This new integration will let entire animation sequences flow directly from Cascadeur into Unreal in real time, bringing a major benefit for the over 40% of our users who work with Unreal Engine for games and films.