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Blender to Unreal Engine and Unity Workflow

Blender to Unreal Engine and Unity Workflow

A practical course for professionals in the game development industry who want a reliable asset pipeline from Blender into Unreal Engine and Unity. The agenda focuses on the parts of the workflow that most often affect production quality, including scale, naming, materials, animation, export settings, and engine side setup. The course is designed to help teams reduce friction between DCC work and engine integration while keeping assets performant, consistent, and easier to maintain.

Was werden Sie lernen?

You will learn how to prepare Blender assets so they move cleanly into Unreal Engine and Unity with fewer surprises around scale, pivots, materials, animation, and hierarchy. You will understand the most important differences between the two engines and how those differences affect export, import, organization, and optimization choices. You will also gain practical patterns for building a repeatable cross engine workflow that supports collaboration between artists, technical artists, and developers.

  • Prepare Blender assets for clean export into Unreal Engine and Unity
  • Manage scale, pivots, naming, materials, UVs, and hierarchy for game ready pipelines
  • Import, validate, and organize static meshes, skeletal assets, and animations in both engines
  • Build a more consistent workflow for optimization, troubleshooting, and team handoff

Voraussetzungen:

  • Suitable for professionals in game art, technical art, level design, animation, and related roles
  • Basic familiarity with Blender and at least one real time engine is helpful
  • General understanding of game asset production and engine integration workflows is recommended

Kursübersicht*:

*Wir passen den Kursaufbau und die Inhalte an Ihre spezifischen Anforderungen und relevanten Anwendungsfälle an.

Module 1: Pipeline foundations from Blender to game engines

  • Understanding the role of Blender in a production pipeline for Unreal Engine and Unity
  • Comparing shared workflow principles and key differences between the two engines
  • Setting up Blender projects with correct units, scale, orientation, naming, and collections
  • Organizing files and assets so export and handoff stay predictable

Module 2: Preparing static meshes for export

  • Building and cleaning game ready props and environment assets
  • Managing pivots, transforms, origins, hierarchy, and object separation
  • Checking topology, normals, smoothing, and triangulation strategy
  • Preparing collision related structures and reusable modular asset sets

Module 3: UVs, materials, and texture pipeline considerations

  • Creating UV layouts that support texturing, baking, and engine side readability
  • Structuring materials and material slots for efficient import behavior
  • Preparing texture naming and channel logic for cross engine workflows
  • Avoiding common issues with seams, stretching, and material inconsistency

Module 4: Export settings and validation from Blender

  • Working with FBX and other common export formats in a controlled way
  • Choosing export settings for transforms, axis conversion, smoothing, and animation data
  • Creating a repeatable pre export checklist for static assets
  • Validating exported files before import into the engine

Module 5: Importing and organizing assets in Unreal Engine

  • Importing static meshes, skeletal meshes, and animations into Unreal Engine
  • Managing folders, naming, reimport behavior, and asset dependencies
  • Reviewing mesh settings, collision, materials, sockets, and LOD behavior
  • Structuring imported assets for level building and gameplay integration

Module 6: Importing and organizing assets in Unity

  • Importing Blender derived assets into Unity with consistent settings
  • Managing prefabs, mesh assets, materials, rig settings, and animation import options
  • Reviewing scale, axis, avatar setup, and asset organization in project folders
  • Structuring assets for reuse across scenes and gameplay systems

Module 7: Characters, rigs, and animation workflow

  • Preparing rigs and skeletons in Blender for engine friendly export
  • Handling skeletal meshes, animation clips, root motion, and retargeting considerations
  • Comparing animation setup expectations in Unreal Engine and Unity
  • Avoiding common rigging and animation import problems across engines

Module 8: Scene integration and real time asset behavior

  • Placing and testing imported assets in gameplay and environment contexts
  • Checking shading, lighting response, materials, and scale consistency in engine
  • Reviewing collision, navigation relevance, and basic interactive behavior
  • Identifying engine side adjustments that should remain outside Blender

Module 9: Performance and optimization across the pipeline

  • Understanding polygon budgets, draw calls, material count, and texture cost
  • Using LOD thinking and mesh simplification for real time performance
  • Making practical decisions about asset reuse, modularity, and scene efficiency
  • Balancing visual quality and technical constraints across both engines

Module 10: Troubleshooting common Blender to engine issues

  • Solving problems with scale, axis orientation, pivots, normals, and hierarchy
  • Fixing material mismatches, broken references, and import inconsistencies
  • Diagnosing animation, rig, and root motion issues after import
  • Building a structured troubleshooting routine that reduces repeated errors

Module 11: Team workflow, standards, and handoff

  • Defining naming rules, folder structures, export presets, and review checkpoints
  • Supporting collaboration between artists, technical artists, designers, and programmers
  • Documenting asset expectations for static meshes, characters, and animations
  • Creating shared standards that work across Unreal Engine and Unity teams

Module 12: Practical cross engine production workflow

  • Moving from Blender source asset to validated engine asset in a structured sequence
  • Choosing which adjustments belong in Blender and which belong in the engine
  • Building a repeatable workflow for asset updates, reimport, and version control
  • Creating a practical checklist for future Blender to Unreal Engine and Unity production work

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4.347€*
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Niveau:
intermediate
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Dauer:
21
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3
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Training angepasst an Ihre Bedürfnisse
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Intensive praktische Erfahrung in einer speziellen Umgebung
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3.012€*
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Niveau:
intermediate
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21
Stunden (Tage:
3
)
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Training angepasst an Ihre Bedürfnisse
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Reduzierte Schulungskosten
*Der Preis kann je nach Teilnehmerzahl, Änderung des Programms, Standort usw. variieren.

Starttermine

07.-09.07.2026
Köln
12.-14.08.2026
Stuttgart
03.-05.09.2026
Wien
15.-17.09.2026
Frankfurt
23.-25.09.2026
München
27.-29.10.2026
Zürich
19.-21.11.2026
Wien

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