Animating Characters

Animating Characters

Animating Characters

Lucas Esposito

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4 hr 10 mins

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Level 2

Summary

In this tutorial series, technical animator Lucas Esposito (who has worked at top studios like CD Projekt Red and Rocksteady) guides you through a comprehensive character animation pipeline. You’ll learn to rig, skin and animate Jonathan Pearmain's Stylized Pictish Goblin character, then implement it in-game using efficient workflows.

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Episodes in this Tutorial

Rigging Part 1

We're going to start by rigging the Goblin mesh using mGear Framework for Maya. Check out this tutorial for additional guidance.

Rigging Part 2

Now we're ready to start editing the size of the controls.

Rigging Part 3

Now we can move onto the skinning process.

Rigging Part 4

We're going to learn how to use brSmoothWeights to skin the Goblin and Ragdoll Dynamics for real-time physics simulation.

Animation Part 1

Now we've successfully rigged the mesh, we can start adding animations.

Animation Part 2

We're going to continue adding and adjusting the animations to suit our character.

Animation Part 3

Now we're going to add a jump animation. We'll use a state machine for this.

Animation Part 4

Now we're going to add a rolling animation, which will play after the user jumps while running.

Implementation Part 1

We're ready to export the rig and animations into Unreal Engine.

Implementation Part 2

We're going to create a blueprint for handling jump animation logic and link it to the main animation graph.

Challenge Yourself

Challenges allow you to apply your newly acquired knowledge and keep a record of your learning journey.

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