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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

Technical requirements

In terms of computer power, you will need the technical requirements detailed in Chapter 1 and the MetaHuman plus the Unreal Engine Mannequin that we imported into UE5 in Chapter 2. Both of these will need to be saved in the same project in UE and you will need to have UE running for this chapter.

For this chapter, you will also need to have access to the motion capture data that you just retargeted in Chapter 6.

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