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Unreal Engine 5 Character Creation, Animation, and Cinematics

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Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801812443
Pages 598 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Henk Venter Henk Venter
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Henk Venter is currently running his own 3D Art Production Studio. He was the Principal Character Artist at THQ Studio Australia and Senior Character Artist at Electronic Arts in Montreal, Canada. In the UK he worked for Microsoft's Studio Rare, Sumo Digital, and Eurocom Entertainment.
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Wilhelm Ogterop Wilhelm Ogterop
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Wilhelm Ogterop worked in bigger games studios in the UK as Character Animator and later Lead Animator on several projects. He was also part of ingame real-time cinematics teams, motion capture direction, cleanup, and implementation. Studios he worked for on-site, as well as a contractor, include Raven Software, Deep Silver, Travelers Tales Fusion, Eurocom Entertainment Software, Instinct Games, Entrada Interactive, and Headfirst Productions.
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1 Creating 3D Assets
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Blender's 3D Modeling and Sculpting Tools 3. Chapter 2: Modeling a Robot Drone Character 4. Chapter 3: Let's Sculpt an Alien Plant! 5. Chapter 4: UV Maps and Texture Baking 6. Chapter 5: Texturing Your Models inside Quixel Mixer 7. Part 2 Building Your Virtual Movie Set in Unreal Engine 5
8. Chapter 6: Exploring Unreal Engine 5 9. Chapter 7: Setting Up Materials in UE 5 10. Chapter 8: Using MetaHuman to Create a Photorealistic Human for UE5 11. Chapter 9: Building a Virtual 3D Movie Set in UE5 12. Chapter 10: Adding Lighting and Atmospheric Visual Effects in UE5 13. Part 3 Character Rigging for Animation in UE5 with Control Rig
14. Chapter 11: Alien Plant Joint Setup in Blender 15. Chapter 12: Alien Plant Skinning in Blender 16. Chapter 13: Robot Joint Setup and Skinning in Blender 17. Chapter 14: Making a Custom Rig for Our Alien Plant with Control Rig 18. Chapter 15: Creating a Control Rig with Basic IK Controls for the Robot in UE5 19. Part 4 Animation in UE5 Using Control Rig and Sequencer
20. Chapter 16: Creating a Simple Swaying Animation Cycle in UE5 Sequencer 21. Chapter 17: Creating Three Simple Animations for the Robot in UE5 Sequencer 22. Chapter 18: Importing Motion Capture onto the MetaHuman Control Rig 23. Chapter 19: Motion Capture Editing and Cleanup Using Control Rig and Sequencer 24. Chapter 20: Using Sequencer to Construct Your Final Scene 25. Index 26. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

You will need the following technical skills and software to complete this chapter:

  • A computer that can run basic 3D animation software.
  • A basic understanding of how to navigate and manipulate meshes in Blender. This was covered in Chapter 1, An Introduction to Blender's 3D Modeling and Sculpture Tools.
  • You need to have installed Blender from https://blender.org/. The Blender version in this chapter is version 2.93.5. Even if your version of Blender is newer, the examples should still work without any problems.
  • You need to have Quixel Mixer installed from https://quixel.com/mixer.

The files related to this chapter are placed at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Unreal-Engine-5-Character-Creation-Animation-and-Cinematics/tree/main/Chapter05

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Profile icon Henk Venter
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Henk Venter is currently running his own 3D Art Production Studio. He was the Principal Character Artist at THQ Studio Australia and Senior Character Artist at Electronic Arts in Montreal, Canada. In the UK he worked for Microsoft's Studio Rare, Sumo Digital, and Eurocom Entertainment.
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Profile icon Wilhelm Ogterop
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Wilhelm Ogterop worked in bigger games studios in the UK as Character Animator and later Lead Animator on several projects. He was also part of ingame real-time cinematics teams, motion capture direction, cleanup, and implementation. Studios he worked for on-site, as well as a contractor, include Raven Software, Deep Silver, Travelers Tales Fusion, Eurocom Entertainment Software, Instinct Games, Entrada Interactive, and Headfirst Productions.
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