How I made a Game Character in Unreal Engine 5

[@nathali2023]

Wow this is exactly what I was looking for!! I needed reassurance that this workflow is possible. Specially the bridging back and forth with unreal. The meta human stuff was AWESOME! Thank you for sharing ! You are the man !!

[@animarch3D]

Eyyyy no worries! glad it helped. Feel free to hit me up if you have any questions! would love to see what you're working on!

[@franktyler8538]

Shoutout Frank! This guy is the man 🍻

[@animarch3D]

yiieeww!

[@gliallegricompari]

Finally man, I was waiting for this video since you showed me the final render on Instagram :D

[@animarch3D]

Eyy! Sorry it took so long, it was a big one. Ill try to stay more active on here moving forward with some shorter vids and live videos. Got some cool stuff in the works! thanks for the support brother

[@artofjhill]

💪

[@animarch3D]

Learning from the best ma man

[@KABOOMANIMATIONS]

So many amazing nuggets of info on this video I keep watching it back and finding something new everytime 😄😄

[@animarch3D]

Eyyy thanks! It’s so hard to pack so much into such a short video, glad you’re enjoying it!

[@raff_kash]

Awesome work! The renders came out looking super crisp!

[@animarch3D]

Thanks bro! Even though they weren't the aim of the project, its good to still have some good presentation after it! Hope you enjoy it

[@3dmutiny]

Great job on the project and such a comprehensive overview. I see a lot of work went into this. 👍

[@animarch3D]

Means the world coming from you Virtus! Legend brother, looking forward to seeing what you’re working on next.

[@bakani2218]

Wow...best recommendation by KZbin algorithm ever!! This is Awesome.

[@animarch3D]

Brother, thank you for the kind words! Keen to keep bringing the best content I can. You the man!

[@djones6712]

THANK YOU SO MUCH- INVALUABLE and so well done GREAT JOB!

[@animarch3D]

@@djones6712 so glad it helped! 🔥🔥

[@tomisackmann]

Awesome work man!

[@animarch3D]

My Man! cheers brother. Really trying to up my character art game!

[@gbrlima1711]

amazing content man! I came from linkedin

[@animarch3D]

Thank you! Hope you enjoyed it

[@xtam55]

To check how mesh will look like subdivided without add subdiv in maya, just press 3 on your keyboard ;)

[@animarch3D]

@@xtam55 and 1 to switch back ;)

[@camerongt3d198]

Sydney boi approves this video

[@hardcoregamer739]

Probably won’t get an answer since this vid is relatively old but I’m at my wits end so here goes: How do you go about retopology and potentially rigging for multi-layered clothes?? It’s easy enough with single layer clothes like a shirt or a skin tight suit, you just erase the model underneath the clothes and you rig the character with the clothes tied to the body bones as if it IS the body. But what do you do with layered clothes like a shirt, vest, and suit on top of each other?? Do you retopo each one of them separately?? Or do you retopo them on top of one another as one mesh?? If you retopo them separately then you surely do a similar thing as previously mentioned and delete the parts of the clothes that’s hidden under other clothes right?? But then the conundrum happens with what if the visible part of the clothes is super tiny like a shirt under the vest and the suit is only visible by the collar only so is it worth it to retopo the whole thing?? Or even make it a separate mesh instead of combining it with the vest?? Do you then combine everything that is separate under one mesh umbrella to be rigged as one single entity?? Ps. When I say combine I don’t mean connect every mesh piece my merging vertices that would be immensely hard and inefficient, but I mean that the mesh pieces won’t be “connected” in the literal sense but more so act as one mesh in the space.

[@animarch3D]

@@hardcoregamer739 hey mate, cmon video isn’t that old lol. Yep so you wouldn’t retopo a WHOLE shirt, if it has a jacket over the top, and that jacket doesn’t come off. All elements can me retopo’d seperately, and should be, but it’s all imported as a single mesh in engine anyway. I’m due to update this, has I think there’s a lot that should be updated for proper in engine assets, not just presenting like I have here. If you have discord, jump in my server in the bio and I’ll be happy to chat this more!

[@hardcoregamer739]

@@animarch3D I genuinely can't thank you enough bro and your dedication to your videos is something else man 90% of CCs don't interact or look at their vids weeks after it was released, yet here you are still responding to queries and feedback almost a full year later. Hats of to you!! I'll definitely hop into discord you definitely seem like someone who knows what they're talking about. Also please if and when you remake this vid or if you're looking for a video idea consider going in-depth on my question since as someone who has been going over every crevasse of the internet with a comb could hardly find anything about my question after weeks of research so you'd be the only one on the entire platform that tackled this issue that no doubt plagued plenty of people other than me.

[@sage_otsutsuki5822]

What application do you use to set up your board references?

[@animarch3D]

@@sage_otsutsuki5822 pureref ☺️

[@ashtonfora8418]

thanks for the great workflow but I have question!! does X-gen to alembic UE5 is good for game production ? or just stick with hair cards ? (I Love your channel btw)

[@animarch3D]

@@ashtonfora8418 hey there! Thanks, and yes definitely stick to hair cards workflow, curves with hair is veryyy rarely used, and even if it is used, hair cards are still needed! I have a video on hair cards if you would like to check it out ☺️

[@ashtonfora8418]

@@animarch3D yeah it was another great video, I have all the plugins you used in that video and I knew the workflow but I like Xgen more because my characters for my game are realistic so that's why I asked for about using alembic. anyway thanks and keep it up

[@R9nikeR9]

Awesome work👏👏 I also want to go through the entire process for Unreal Engine, but it's too difficult. In particular, it is even more difficult because of the omitted part in the middle. Where can I refer to learn this entire process?

[@animarch3D]

Thanks bro! When you say omitted part, not sure what you mean. If you have discord hit me up there happy to answer any questions!

[@elvismorellidigitalvisuala6211]

Great content! So the character is not rigged right? I'll have to investigate a tool called Metapipe, looks like is possible to transfer a MH rig to any face

[@animarch3D]

yoo thanks dude. Yea that's right, not rigged. I was thinking id do a separate video for externally rigging in Maya, using the metahuman skeleton. thought that deserved a video of its own haha. thanks for the support man, glad I found your channel too

[@jhonbells]

Hi there. Did you use virtual shadowmaps or cascaded shadows ? I have an issue with my character , it's retopologized and is quite low poly 28k triangles , but the shadow artifacts i get from using virtual shadow maps in project settings just breaks the character. They look like a shadow terminator problem and shadow acne and with VSMs you cant adjust shadow bias. The only way i found to fix it is to make the faces really smooth , but that takes away from the silhouette too much , or to subdivide it , but that would make it 80k triangles just for the body and i think it wouldnt make a good portfolio wireframe piece. So any tips on this issue ? How do artists render their characters in ue5 with good and low topology without showing those faceted shadows.

[@animarch3D]

Hey man, I think I understand the question. I usually soften edges in maya, and then “unlock normals” will smooth the mesh, and get rid of any bad shadowing. If you wanna send me more info on the problem or screen shots, message me on discord! Cheers

[@jhonbells]

​@@animarch3D thanks for the reply, i sent you a dm.

[@JuanSumChninezeFue]

Wish YT had the feature to see how many times the thumbs down button has been mashed. It REALLY saved me a lot of time trying to find stuff that's actually relevant to the video title.

[@animarch3D]

@@JuanSumChninezeFue awww poor baby didn’t get what he was looking for with a free video, kick rocks bro.

[@zzzleepyhead9101]

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[@animarch3D]

I encourage both of you to install that and see the ratio. Unless you have anything better to do with your time.

[@32bitsGame]

nice work but how do you actually make the characters do stuff, because she is just standing there looking pretty she needs to move and blink and do more stuff

[@animarch3D]

Hey! yep so in the games industry that would be job of a rigger, not a character artist. If you were to animate this character in UE5 (sort of easily) would be to skin it to a UE5 skeleton, the use the rig inside of UE5. If you would be interested in this workflow I can do a video on it! Cheers

[@RomanTimm]

Hey, sub'd for sure! How long do you estimate it took you from start to finish?

[@animarch3D]

Eyy thanks brother! It was on and off, probably around 8-10 weeks if it was straight through

[@animarch3D]

Hit me up in the discord if you have any other questions 👌🏼

[@CrokedWillo]

Hey Frankie nice video well put together!! Your discords' link is invalid, can you share another one? thanks man

[@animarch3D]

Ahh thanks dude! Damn I wonder how long that hasn’t been active, just updated it, check it now!

[@MightyHeidi]

how do you pick a poly group to extract out??

[@animarch3D]

it could be when using Zmodeller? I messaged you on Instagram if you want to chat through how i did it :)

[@MightyHeidi]

@@animarch3D thanks!!

[@SeanMaxhell]

What about the rig?

[@animarch3D]

Yea I didn’t do that part, if I was to rig, I would use the metahuman base mesh from the start, or skin and rig my own skeleton. If it’s something you’d be interested in a can do that in a another vid

[@ComicalCoconutOfficial]

so.... how do you.... START???? bro kicked off with all the assets imported. I'm trying to figure out how to HAVE stuff to begin with

[@animarch3D]

By all the assets, do you mean a base mesh? Very common to start with a base mesh with already good topology. I got this one from JHills store. Head scan was from the 3d scan store

[@paluxyl.8682]

Why do you call at 44:50 the teeth "junk" ? ... they are important if someone wants to make a game with a speaking character or that shows emotions like screaming.

[@animarch3D]

I personally didn’t need them for this project

[@paluxyl.8682]

@@animarch3D I understand now your point. My first thought was that you goal was that you are making a character to sell it later at 3d asset stores that other can make games with it.