Animating in Unreal: Habits & Customs of a Brave New World | Unreal Fest 2024

This session is a travel guide for brave animators who are about to embark on a journey into the world of Unreal Engine. Join us to prepare yourself for the best trip, understand what to expect, anticipate any struggles, and get excited-because you’re going to love it.
Dimension will give an insight into how they have customized workflows and developed tools to help and support animators working in engine.
The talk will include an introduction to Unreal Engine for traditional 3D animators using Maya looking at the parallels between the two worlds as well as the differences.
You’ll learn about the UE animation philosophy and its linear content production workflows, and there will also be practical tips on workflows unique to UE that can open new animation routines.
This session is designed for traditional 3D animators and previs artists who haven't started animating in UE yet, as well as those who have (but are still finding their way through).

[@veith3dclub]

Omg, you created the animation series thank you!!!

[@unreal-animator]

0:00 Introduction of Rol Kachanani and Dimension Studio 1:05 Overview 1:33 Beginning of Maya/UE comparison 2:26 What is a new DCC for an Animator 7:10 Travel Guide for Brave Animators 11:30 Unreal Project vs Maya file 15:10 Unreal Asset for Animation 15:35 Level is a 3D Viewport 16:55 Actors are everything you can animate 17:55 Finding Timeline 18:29 Level Sequences are building blocks 20:00 Master Sequences 21:45 Sub Sequences 23:20 How do I save in Unreal? 25:15 Bad - Saving Preferences 26:05 Bad - Gizmos 27:10 UE 5.4 Plugin New TRS Gizmos 28:45 Bad - Orthographic views 29:16 Superpowers: 33:22 Super - Space Switches 36:45 Super - Constraints 37:50 Super - Proxy Controls 41:20 Super - Ctrl Rig Layering 42:15 Animbot and better future of Animation 44:05 Presentation by Dimension: The Dream of the Black Whales

[@Climberfx]

Amazing. I came from Maya too, and still on baby steps on Unreal, but loving it every day a big bit more. Thank you for sharing.

[@marktomphotography]

Love the description of "normal" Very insightful and helpful overall. Thank you!

[@rafael.animator]

Thanks for the this talk ! It's a fantastic introduction into the change in mindset between Maya and Unreal. I'm learning Unreal at the moment and this was really valuable. Much appreciated !

[@Sky-hl8iw]

a great teaching skills bravo bravo

[@dreamingacacia]

We might need to have animation programmers dedicating to make everything easy for animators to just focus on making animations. Or we could use some simple macros which allowed the project to set into presets which suitable for certain styles or even create the presets ourselves.

[@ArikiSun]

Thank you!

[@ada002]

🎉 great super powers... Definitely this is the way to go ! 🎉

[@veith3dclub]

Thank you! Awesom,e thanks for sharing

[@behrampatel4872]

This is very valuable for Maya animators. Thanks for sharing a ton of insights and tips in this video. cheers, b

[@michaelb1099]

would love indepth tutorials on these things you talk about . Are there any ??

[@SkyHandOneTen]

THANK YOU SIR! THANK YOU. Those basic freaking options you showed in the tutorial are complete turn offs for me when I tried to move into UE. Like WTF why can't I drag select something or Why TF is the pan moving in reverse (This isn't a airplane). THANK YOU for the simple clarification.

[@BLUEFIREandCOPPER]

❤

[@jeffg4686]

2 questions for unreal. 1) Is rust a first class citizen in the development process yet? 2) what's the licensing for developing VR/XR solutions for individual businesses that might not be selling the game, but using it for gaining customers. Does this fit any current licensing model?

[@ABentPaperclip]

9:10 they really need to give us an option to marquee select in the level editor in general, not just in sequencer mode :|

[@PrashantVerma-c1b]

ctrl + alt + left click and drag.

[@Erfunframe]

How to edit the animation path for an object in the Unreal Engine?

[@LiamTurner-g9k]

sad about the orthographic camera in the viewport :(

[@nourghafarji]

very interesting, what time stamp is where we talk about rendering to get very realistic results?