The Making of ‘Meerkat’ Real-Time Hair & Fur Short | Spotlight | Unreal Engine

When the Special Projects team at Weta Digital wanted to see how far they could push Unreal Engine’s new real-time hair and fur system, they created a stunning short film featuring a meerkat and an eagle. Find out how, using just off-the-shelf tools, they were able to create linear content of a quality that surprised even themselves. The scene and source files for this piece are now available as a free sample project for you to explore, learn from, and reuse. You can download them from