Embracing Motion Matching: Using a Little to Get a Lot | Unreal Fest Bali 2025

Motion Matching is Unreal Engine’s query-based animation pose selection feature. You can use it to create responsive animation systems that select animation poses from a database to match a dynamic system query at runtime. Motion Matching is a powerful tool for animation teams but there are some myths surrounding its use and how to develop with it. In this session recorded at Unreal Fest Bali, Epic Games’ Dustin DeVoe highlights how you can develop your game with a small amount of content while leveraging Motion Matching to create better, flowing animation. He touches on the sparse animation Motion Matching setup in the Game Animation Sample Project (GASP), and a little-known feature called "Stitching" to support gameplay-driven blending between animations. Learn more about Motion Matching in Unreal Engine here: dev.epicgames.com/documentation/unreal-engine/motion-matching-in-unreal-engine #Animation, #MotionMatching, #GameAnimationSampleProject, #UnrealEngine, #UE5, #UnrealFestBali