How To Make An Animation Blueprint In Unreal Engine 5 | How To Animate A Character - UE5 Tutorial

Hey guys, in today's video, I'm going to be showing you how to set up and create an animation blueprint and blendspace for your characters in your game in Unreal Engine 5.
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00:39 - Overview
01:25 - Tutorial
13:20 - Final Overview
13:36 - Outro
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[@itsjxomusic]

For anyone using UE 5.0.2 - Interpolation does not exist anymore. If you look at the sidebar, There is a tick for "smoothing". Click that if it is unticked. UE5 now uses technology to smooth transitions

[@uncleoky]

Thanks.

[@heresmynovel331]

Great help thanks

[@PeaceInExile]

You just saved me a google search. Much appreciated.

[@MatthewDadoun]

woah technolgy

[@pedrogrilo277]

For those now using UE 5.1+, the Blend Space 1D is now under the Legacy tab (Animation -> Legacy -> Blend Space 1D).

[@lee-wood]

Nice one!!! This was very helpful! :)

[@seto007]

Is there any particular reason for this change? Usually stuff is only relegated to "legacy" content if it's been superseded.

[@Ruebler1]

Thank you!

[@Ash-vt5cp]

@@seto007 i'm assuming it's because the regular blend space does everything 1D does if you don't add anything to the vertical axis, making the 1D blend space kinda pointless

[@scottcourtney8878]

This is a great tutorial for those of us learning UE locomotion setup but already familiar with other animation systems. There's enough explanation to fill knowledge gaps but not a lengthy repetition of concepts familiar from prior experience. Thanks for sharing!

[@minusnine5036]

This is amazing! Thank you for this tutorial. Not sure if you've made a tutorial on this yet, but making something like this but for attack and combo animations would help so much. Thanks again.

[@nook2726]

This helped so much ty, I couldn't find any tutorials that explained it as well as you did, keep up the splendid work.

[@jhonysteak5512]

I just discovered your channel, I have a good knowledge of Blender but for UE5 I must have one or two hours so it's time for the meticulous viewing of all your videos, thank you in advance for all that you have done.

[@nend4001]

Fantastic!!! I feel so free now! Thank you!

[@evaisotalo3386]

Thank you so much for taking the time and sharing your knowledge.

[@mdp7193]

Amazing, thank you so much!!

[@vargr4355]

This is fantastic.. Cant thank you enough.

[@wolfiedgr8t]

Thanks Matt, really great tutorial 👍

[@ronioclarenzo6137]

Excellent tutuorial! Thanks so much for your help!

[@nickjohnson7277]

Great timing. Downloaded unreal 5 a few days ago. Thanks

[@nasrali1297]

Thanks a lot for the great and detailed tutorial, much appreciate your efforts

[@superslicer6]

Im trying to make a game in UE 5.1.1 in 3 days and this guy was absolute god send with his playlist.

[@itsjxomusic]

YASS FOUND IT! Matt you are a absolute legend!!!

[@The.adrianm]

Matt thank you so much for this tutorial!

[@MattAspland]

My pleasure!

[@The.adrianm]

@@MattAspland hey matt do you think that maybe we can do a collab because my channel is really dead or can you please maybe give me a shoutout? I'm a huge fan of all of your videos :)

[@aidorrocks]

tried half a dozen tutorials trying to learn this & this is the only one that worked for me. wish i'd seen it before the others. thank you for this great tutorial

[@majupiju2347]

Very nicely explained. Thanks for sharing! looking forward to more. Also well earned sub ;D

[@ReVelaO]

i was looking for it from yesterday, and look! is here! this guy is amazing!

[@MattAspland]

Perfect timing! Always happy to help!

[@ErodonTV]

Great video !! thanks a bunch :)

[@brandonjacksoon]

Awesome 👍 thank you!

[@MattAspland]

No problem! :)

[@glimpsygames2734]

Thank you so much!

[@LittlePangy]

Thanks so much! as an absolute beginner this was really helpful

[@MattAspland]

Great to hear!

[@aleksboboychev]

Thank you!

[@mikeYagop]

Thanks man, unreal engine 5 (and 4) tutorials are hard to find

[@coldunion]

BIG HELP thanks bro

[@gamermanmitchell]

TYSM!!

[@memnok9980]

Damn, bro that worked perfectly.

[@TimCrinion]

Thanks, this really helped me

[@MattAspland]

Glad to hear it!

[@joebainbridge3305]

Great vid.

[@nicodela6854]

Thank you :)

[@germangonzalezg6250]

Thank you very much Sir.

[@alexkerasidis]

BEST VIDEO I HAVE EVER WATCHED! ONE TRILLION THANKS! Y' all sub!

[@HumanityKILLS]

Nice tutorial, easy for me to understand. Thank you.

[@MattAspland]

Glad it was helpful!

[@skewbinge6157]

thanks that was helpful

[@arifismayilov7826]

Thx bro, You saved my wasting of time! Appreciate!

[@ForeverNils]

Thank you.

[@recursivedreamer3149]

Many thanks. Quick and to the point.

[@thekingjesse6932]

Thank you is amazing video

[@IrocZIV]

Thanks, so many things to learn, but this kept it simple enough to get my feet wet.

[@74nz1l]

u saved me bruh. thanks a lot

[@hdfhtt]

I like the way you organize the blueprint connections. As a perfectionist, it is so satisfying to watch. Anyway, great tutorial!

[@orccomputers2145]

ty matty my boy.

[@g-dojjo]

Thank you so much bro !

[@MattAspland]

Happy to help :)

[@g-dojjo]

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[@johndoe35717]

awesome

[@trippiebluee4277]

Hey i was wondering, if you have ever made videos on AI behaviour trees? Ai seeking for player and etc, or Is Blueprint just as good for ai developing?

[@hwara-jewoo]

Thank you

[@Kiran.KillStreak]

All under 13min ,thanks for quick video.

[@CitizenCoder]

This worked great for me, thanks. I bought some character models with custom animations built in, and they didn't work with the UE skeletons. This process so far let me use them and the animations with no trouble. Thanks.

[@mox_melody]

This tutorial helped me SO much. One thing that is unclear to me: Around 5:10 you mention that I should check for the player pressing the jump input if I want to seperate the falling and jumping animations. Would I need to create an 'IsFalling' Boolean in addition to the 'IsJumping' one? and also, Would I check for this input before the 'Nav Movement Component' or before connecting the aforementioned component to 'IsJumping' ?

[@vasjakur]

That's a very helpful and educating video. For instance it helped me understand clearly that 3D game development is totally out of my league and I should stop wasting my time and go back to writing boring business software. And for that, good Sir, I thank you wholeheartedly.

[@mikotalik]

Look into Godot

[@anatolio8689]

Thanks! For the blend space the preview hotkey was holding CTRL not Shift for me on Windows UE5

[@kitlrgames]

tanks

[@RealWorld125]

ty brp

[@hiphopshot1050]

Yes may i ask for another edition that is a lil slower with each step as well as any additional tips for UE5. Along with any AR tips you may have 🙏🙌

[@itsjxomusic]

Also, BP_Thirdpersoncharacter is now in the "Play" option (No idea why! Maybe it's a bug?!). You need to hit "play" if you are using 5.0.2 - Use your mouse without touching the game screen and select the "BP_Thirdpersoncharacter" option on the right and edit the mesh to your 3d model and animation blueprint. :)

[@heresmynovel331]

Can I ask you this At 9:40 I can't find the animations that I downloaded them from Maximo in the bottom right corner, in the "asset browser" What I get in here is the main animations of the original ue5 character!!!! What am supposed to do ☹☹

[@Deleted328]

Nice I finally got it! My char has animations

[@MattAspland]

Nice work!

[@kapymau]

Sweet

[@ryanpatton1795]

thanks man, I got my cat animated now.

[@flufluf4404]

if the green preview thing doesnt work with left shift you should try it with left ctrl, thats how it works on my computer

[@UnbeatenSpartan]

I dont know if it happens for others but I followed a lot of this simply. However when I went to change the default ThirdPersonBP and drag into mine and changed the skeleton mesh and added the animation I still have the default movement script and event graph. I am looking everywhere for how to apply that graph over this one and I keep breaking things more.

[@OgSuda]

I’m brand new and this was easy af lol

[@anthonypalfrey645]

Hey could you do a video on setting up player movement with this type of free camera? I've tried many times, but the left to right movement rotates the player facing front towards camera rather than back towards camera

[@omerrudnick8195]

Could you do an opening cutscene tutorial? Or maybe a camera pan tutorial, like when you step on a certain area the camera zooms out or moves ahead then returns?

[@RagingGamingBear]

Any plans or making videos on recoil for weapons? 🙂

[@NatesPlayzGamez]

Hey dude, great tutorial, thank you so much! wondering if you plan on doing a tutorial that involves, turning/walking left/right, because i cant not seem to figure it out..I have an ai bear, that walks around ( and when idle goes between eating, idle and another animation) but his turning is instantaneous, there is no anim that plays, super janky ya know. its because im not sure how to incorporate turning into my anim bp :) also, how to get the ai to follow tthe landscape properly? instead of always walking forward even when climbing a hill for instance..had someone on a forum suggest a line trace and adjust rotation but not sure..juuusst wondering dude, thanks again! :)

[@mindblowersyt]

hi there, i liked your tutorials very much and i want to learn more from your channel. so that's why i am asking you to make a tutorial on fully animated 3d character ( including crouching, pronze, leaning, peaking, shouting, fighting and allot more related ) i will be waiting for your response,,

[@TheLastGamer327]

So, after looking through tons of videos, and having issues with an attack animation, every time you add an animation, you have to add it to the blueprint animation, correct?

[@Crush-kc8ss]

You mentioned making it so it checks if player pushes button on a edge then jumps, How do we set that up but also I found a animation that if u get real clsoe to a ledge you sorta tetter on the edge. I would like to add those. Where would i place those in this sequence?

[@bhampton1969]

I am a beginner. I've seen videos where they do not seem to use blendspace. Pardon my terminology but it looks like the set up the keybindings and use all built in blueprint functions. So, does the blendspacing give better movement motion (transition between animations) than what the others are doing?

[@binyaminbass]

The 3rd Person Character BP in UE5 Preview has all kinds of new nodes. It still works fine. Any idea why there are so many more?

[@litliam8358]

Quick question, on your last video about mixamo you showed downloading a jump start idle and end. How did you end up with 1 single jump animation?

[@kennetherhabor5543]

I think he downloaded the full jump animation from mixamo and used here as opposed to the other on where he used the jump up, jump down and falling idle animations. You could download those and use them as well, setting them up in a separate blend space for jumping and then plugging that into the jump part of the state machine in the animation blueprint, just like he showed here for idle, walk and run.

[@wishuwwyborn1587]

bro nice videos! Please do something about network multiplayer 3d/2d

[@andrasbaliko]

+1

[@evaisotalo3386]

+1

[@malatheplugg5334]

Thanks for your help my friends ! I still have a little problem when i run and stay push on jump, he do the animation one time and freeze the animation but still controlable, hope you help me another time. thxxx

[@ForeverNils]

Question on 12:31. On left shift pressed you set max walk speed to 600 but on the right side of the screen there is a "character movement: walking" and it seated to 300 which is lower than 600.

[@racingdenmark5573]

Because the character starts out walking then when you press shift to run and release to walk.

[@unrealproblems5813]

hey ! you could make a tutorial on how to make phasmophobia ai ! Great videos!

[@II-er7gj]

Please make updated video if possible! Kind Regards 0:32 !

[@bhampton1969]

Also, is this a standard way to do animation? Do you use this practice?

[@seansmailes9981]

Hi, I gotta ask asomething as Im stuck. Ive been following along this video up until 12:13. It shows a setup for the left Shift button, the sprinting code. Where did this come from? Am I watching a part2 video? Please help, as Id like to learn the complete lesson. thanks!

[@zachattack3763]

in the last part of the video i dont know how to get the geen boxes that say set, what are they called in ue?

[@user-Nanro_0120]

hi. I have a question. To apply it to the Unreal 5 animation system like your ninja character, do I need to create basic animations for my character myself?

[@SeanB256]

Is there any tutorial for the character movement ?

[@smcfadden1992]

if i wanted to run a different animation for a 2nd jump, but only have a double jump through world settings can i somehow check if im falling and pressed jump to run a different animation?

[@Brutkre]

Can u make a tutorial on how to make a progress bar and text show how much of a game you have completed like in spiderman it shows the percentage you have completed of the story for UE4

[@Radiocactive_garlic]

Hello, I would really be interested to have an updated video about importing animations in ue5, but it the mean time I can't seem to find the one in ue4, could someones help me finding it ?

[@zipr3me84]

im having trouble finding the right animation on mixamo for the walking jump animation does anyone know the right one? there are so many

[@xdavis2919]

can u do an enemy ai attack blueprint tutorial... all the ones ive seen so far just show patrolling then following.

[@jegErHam695]

hey im getting this error does anyone know how to fix it? This blueprint (self) is not a SceneComponent, therefore ' Target ' must have a connection.

[@gfxfilms2012]

What's the difference change from walk to run, like do I press a button? Also, do you have any 'attack or *punch videos :)

[@ryanforbes8775]

How did you get your animations into the assets?

[@mushishi3994]

I have a question what if the jump as three animation sequence start end and loop how do I combine it ?

[@g99gaming85]

How can i add punch and kick animation with it and enemy ai also

i did everythin like in your tutoriall BUT my char (Astra) mixamo does the animation of running while she is running (hope that make sense) any idea how to fix this?

[@realNoobDog]

I have 3 different Idle Animations. How can i add them to the Blendspace?

[@aetherneos6438]

At what point did you program your character to jump? I'm not seeing how just connecting the Get Pawn > Get Movement Component > Is Falling > Set... Set Speed, etc... is able to make your character jump and link it with the appropriate animation.

[@mabackma7042]

Where do I find a crouch animation for third person Quinn?

[@pandalovercrumxoxo6637]

I have a question, on the animation blueprint why doesn't the input key work at all while I have it work in other blueprints

[@galberger3937]

HI. Can you show how to make a mixamo character using a sword or a gun and couse damege?

[@DAVYSTCLAIR]

Can you do a tutorial on making an Ai character from the paragon characters, or one where the AI can attack the player