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Reimagining Characters with Unreal Engine's MetaHuman Creator

You're reading from   Reimagining Characters with Unreal Engine's MetaHuman Creator Elevate your films with cinema-quality character designs and motion capture animation

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Published in Dec 2022
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ISBN-13 9781801817721
Length 356 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Brian Rossney is a Creative Director and VFX Supervisor at Rossney Pictures. With 22 years of experience working in the film and TV industry, Brian has specialized in post-production and digital visual effects. He has produced commercials and TV opening sequences using 3D animation tools and 3D nodal based compositing applications. With a thorough understanding of the VFX and 3D animation pipeline, and live-action film producing and directing, Brian has lectured at Dublin City University and Galway Film Centre, and had worked as a VFX supervisor for Hallmark and Maravista. He is also the creator of two short films – they are called ‘Apetito', using Unreal Engine, and ‘1976’, using Unreal Engine and the MetaHuman Creator.
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Preface 1. Part 1: Creating a Character
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Unreal FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Creating Characters in the MetaHuman Interface 4. Part 2: Exploring Blueprints, Body Motion Capture, and Retargeting
5. Chapter 3: Diving into the MetaHuman Blueprint 6. Chapter 4: Retargeting Animations 7. Chapter 5: Retargeting Animations with Mixamo 8. Chapter 6: Adding Motion Capture with DeepMotion 9. Part 3: Exploring the Level Sequencer, Facial Motion Capture, and Rendering
10. Chapter 7: Using the Level Sequencer 11. Chapter 8: Using an iPhone for Facial Motion Capture 12. Chapter 9: Using Faceware for Facial Motion Capture 13. Chapter 10: Blending Animations and Advanced Rendering with the Level Sequencer 14. Chapter 11: Using the Mesh to MetaHuman Plugin 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

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We will be continuing from the previous chapter, so you will need UE5 and Bridge installed, along with a reliable internet connection. A strong internet connection is particularly important here as you will be downloading over 1 GB of data per character.

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Brian Rossney is a Creative Director and VFX Supervisor at Rossney Pictures. With 22 years of experience working in the film and TV industry, Brian has specialized in post-production and digital visual effects. He has produced commercials and TV opening sequences using 3D animation tools and 3D nodal based compositing applications. With a thorough understanding of the VFX and 3D animation pipeline, and live-action film producing and directing, Brian has lectured at Dublin City University and Galway Film Centre, and had worked as a VFX supervisor for Hallmark and Maravista. He is also the creator of two short films – they are called ‘Apetito', using Unreal Engine, and ‘1976', using Unreal Engine and the MetaHuman Creator.
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