Combine Face and Body Animations - Metahumans in Unreal Engine 5 .1

In this tutorial, I show you how to combine Metahuman Face and Body animations in sequencer, in Unreal Engine 5, without losing head rotation from the facial mocap itself. I present a controllable solution that can "switch" between the fix and original body driven head animation.
Original fix that, I added switching to, came from @EllieJayLiquid
• Combining body and fac...
Chapters:-
00:00 Introduction
00:33 The Problem
01:33 The Result explained
02:00 Modifying the face Animation Blueprint
05:55 Creating Blend Masks
06:55 Finalize our Animation Blueprint
07:22 Creating the switch in the Event Graph
09:22 Using the newly created "switch"
10:11 Outro
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[@LongestYardstick]

this was a CLEAN video -- thank you so much, fixed my issue

[@Mr_Dee]

Very usefull information and well explained! Thanks :)

[@DarkBarBarian]

Great tutorial !

[@hanus35]

Thank you so much for this!

[@konnerbonsen8893]

Danke!

[@chromee2007]

I have a problem, I've made a animation sequence with body and facial expressions but when I "baked animation" and opened it the body animations were playing but the face was static. What do I need to do? I also baked the facial as a pose but unsure how to combine them.

[@operators-verse]

Top 3 of UE5 tutorials. Clarity, pacing, so well done. Any chance to get you onboard for a side gig including metahumans?

[@Jobutsu]

Contact my business email. Please be advised that my response may be slow at the moment.

[@tombittikoffer412]

Oh man, so close to my use case. I have mixamo animations for the body and head and want to add expressions to the face and head rotation. I'm sure the results will give me nightmares, but in the meantime, I can find this really useful. Not sure I've seen this scenario in YT or your playlist.

[@Jobutsu]

I have a library of animations, I barely use Mixamo. If I can make time, I try it and record.

[@tombittikoffer412]

@@Jobutsu I suppose the source doesn’t matter. As I have it now I have a retargeted animation I drag into the body animation asset and when the BP plays the body does it’s little dance and the head with its head and facial animations plays but unattached to the body. I will go through to make sure I didn’t do something wrong but is this what should be solved in your technique?

[@tombittikoffer412]

For anyone else dealing with some non-working head rotation still, make sure the second layer bled node's NOT also set to blend with mask but rather branch. I duplicated the nodes after I changed the value.

[@jonhman2523]

pls make tutorial advanced character lighting like this

[@FlyingLotus]

wow, such a process, the day they make animating metahumans as easy as it is to animate iclone characters, ill actually mess with them

[@Jobutsu]

This characters head was animated using iClone 8. Use the tools you need to use to get the job done.

[@FlyingLotus]

@@Jobutsu yeah! U get it. U been killing it this year w the tutorials

[@borrowedtruths6955]

I am using version 5.2, followed the tutorial to the letter, added a mixamo idle animation in sequencer, then an SDK voice to the face, but the head still separates from the body? Any help?

[@denniss67]

I have the same issue but I have it at runtime, I apply live lip sync amin to face while body is doing idle amin. But your trick only works for the editor/sequencer and not in runtime. Do you have any idea for how to get it to work at runtime ?

[@Jobutsu]

It is difficult to say without the problem in front of me. So your animations are running inside blueprints correct ?

[@user-rk3ls4mv4e]

thanks a lot , However when I use animation to the face (Face_Anim_BP) for livelink , the metahuman head and neck break and merge into each other..any help would be appreciated. and thank you in advanced, note the face from Metahuman and DAZ body

[@Jobutsu]

I am going to be recording a new version of this soon.

[@CaliHomie]

Can you make tutorial how to take body animation from iClone as you make for face animation? I'm looking for knowledge how to animate my metahuman via iClone. I found your great tutorial for face animation and how to split body and face animation. I found tutorial how to get PLASK animations to iClone but I don't know how to add only body animation from iClone to my metahuman and then record face animation.

[@Jobutsu]

I am recording this tutorial but have been waiting for Reallusion to release plugins for 5.1

[@CaliHomie]

@@Jobutsu Great! can't wait! Thanks that your tutorials are so detailed, keep it goin!

[@aaronbircher9981]

thank for the video! I can't find the "movie pipeline game mode" on my ue5.1. do you know why?

[@Jobutsu]

Is the movie render queue plugin enabled ?

[@aaronbircher9981]

@@Jobutsu it was not, but now it works! thanks so much!

[@snap-n-shoot]

Where can I find body animations such as the idle one and other standing animations? When I search for idle nothing appears…

[@Jobutsu]

You can obtain packs from the Epic Games store.

[@togangokbakar]

This method is not working with the latest version and the metahuman animator. Can you suggest something else?

[@Jobutsu]

Working on it.

[@Pather23]

In the latest version of unreal engine (5.1.1 as of today) this doenst work on its own. You need to tell the sequencer to use the AnimBP in order for this to work. Otherwise everything else works as expected.

[@Jobutsu]

Thank you for this information.

[@san-qn7ci]

can you tell me how to use animBP to sequencer? mine is 5.1.1 too,, it's not working.

[@carlospino1192]

please explain a little more for thos of us still struggling. Much apreciated!

[@jonos138]

Everytime i hit compile in Animation bp it crashes UE5.3. I dont even have to alter or edit anything. If i open up Animation bp and just hit compile it will crash UE. So im stuck on how to get around this.

[@Jobutsu]

Did you solve this ?

[@jonos138]

@Jobutsu No, I found a different way of joining head to body.

[@JunwithoutE]

Any idea how to combine Face and body on BP driven metahumans...? need help..

[@Jobutsu]

Working on it.

[@JunwithoutE]

@@Jobutsu Thanks for the reply

[@RichardRiegel]

Not working in UE5.2 at all 😟

[@Jobutsu]

Working on it.

[@perky.mp4]

Hey there followed all the steps and its still not working together i am using 5.1.1

[@Jobutsu]

Finding out what has changed, is on my todo list.

[@perky.mp4]

@@Jobutsu Please let me know when you find out the fix tysm!

[@san-qn7ci]

me too. still head floating without body.. lol

[@user-dr7cc3jp6e]

I Try it In UE5.1preview2, But it doesn't work ? I don't know why。

[@Jobutsu]

I do not know the answer.

[@user-dr7cc3jp6e]

@@Jobutsu OK I fixed it,Thank you jobutsu.

[@thejetshowlive]

@@user-dr7cc3jp6e How did you fix it?

[@reubencf]

@@user-dr7cc3jp6e how did u fix it

[@eduardosalata908]

Anyone using Metahuman SDK was able to fix it?

[@Jobutsu]

What is broken ?

[@Jobutsu]

Ah, ok. I do not use that plugin.

[@floatcloudxu6047]

@@AaH Hello, has runtime mouth sync found a solution yet? thank you

[@reubencf]

i followed everything but it seems to be not working weird

[@Jobutsu]

Which version of UE ?

[@reubencf]

@@Jobutsu 5.1.1

[@Jobutsu]

I will add to my list to test.

[@reubencf]

@@Jobutsu ok thank you

[@reubencf]

@@Jobutsu it seems that head and body are blending if theres no facial animation

[@projecthikegame403]

Here is a weird fix for those struggling with 5.1.1 follow the steps in the tutorial but also sue the MovieGamePipelineGamemode, fixed the issues for me!

[@carlospino1192]

can you explain this a little more? what does "sue" mean in this context? why sue the moviepipeline? thx!

[@nexelus]

I don't understand why we should fix this bug ouselves, it's so frustrating

[@Jobutsu]

Which bug ?

[@nexelus]

​@@Jobutsu detaching head and head rotation issue

[@Jobutsu]

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[@TheTgolProductions]

this didn't work at all

[@Jobutsu]

As the engine evolves, so does process.

[@user-ml4yp4bj5e]

Slow and bad workflow

[@Jobutsu]

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