How Steamroller Animation made a 30 min animated pilot episode in Unreal Engine

May 22, 2025

The full ep is now available to watch for free!

Today on the befores & afters podcast, we’re chatting to Steamroller Animation about their pilot episode of Spice Frontier. Back in 2019, the team released an 8 minute short film as a proof of concept, and now they’ve ramped this up for a pilot. With Adam Meyer, Josh Carroll and Dave Alve, I ask them about what went into making an original IP. I think that is definitely the dream of many VFX and animation studios out there – to develop their own intellectual property – so it’s really interesting to hear the journey Steamroller has been on to create this property.

We also talk technical, in terms of utilizing Unreal Engine in their pipeline, and what some of the creative and tech hurdles have been along the way. Listen in, above, and watch the pilot episode below.

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