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Unreal Engine 5 Character Creation, Animation, and Cinematics

You're reading from   Unreal Engine 5 Character Creation, Animation, and Cinematics Create custom 3D assets and bring them to life in Unreal Engine 5 using MetaHuman, Lumen, and Nanite

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Published in Jun 2022
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ISBN-13 9781801812443
Length 598 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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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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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Preface 1. Part 1 Creating 3D Assets
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Blender's 3D Modeling and Sculpting Tools FREE CHAPTER 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

Further reading

I have created three additional tutorials for this chapter, as follows:

  • Additional Content Volume 2 - Creating Material ID Maps.pdf
  • Additional Content Volume 3 - Painting Lines in Blender.pdf
  • Additional Content Volume 4 - Step-by-Step Texturing of the Alien-Plant.pdf

You can download these three files from the online repository here:

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Unreal-Engine-5-Character-Creation-Animation-and-Cinematics/tree/main/Chapter05

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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 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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