Integrating Unreal Virtual Production Into the Highest-Quality Character Animation Pipeline

This session will explore how animation studio AMGI harnesses the power of real-time rendering to produce high-quality animation at a fraction of the traditional animation time. The presentation will dive into the latest tools and techniques AMGI uses for rapid prototyping of full-body and facial animation, showcasing a process of motion capture puppeteering mixed with key frame animation rendered at super-fast speeds.

[@AMGIStudios]

Thank you for having us UE! It was an honor to share what our studio creates.

[@chrisbullock6477]

Now we can honestly say the Hardware has caught up to the software and concept needs, where a single animator or concept artist can render out their ideas within a days work with a decent $1500-$2000 system.

[@StaxKarratGang]

Lol I started my animation journey about a year ago thanks to amgi’s tech, running on the engine off a $1400 laptop.. your on point with your predictions fam

[@LazarheaD]

Foodfight, truly a masterpiece of cinema!

[@TheWillvoss]

I have PTSD from working on foodfight. Shoutout to those souls at Threshold Digital Research Labs!

[@spyral00]

legend! Did you work on the footage that got "stolen" or on the beautiful fina version?

[@spyral00]

Also any word about your former boss? he looks like a nice guy too, not crazy at all.

[@TheWillvoss]

@@spyral00 im not even sure. It "came out" years after. I was there i think when they had licenses for most stuff, so before that changed/ people pulled out. Modelled Mrs.Buttersworth, and a charicatured asian dog..Ah, Potsticker Pup! and some other stuff.. there was a chocolate squirrel in a plane... I think the lead guy was a human and not a dog at the time. Bossman gave me my first job in the industry, so that makes up for a lot of the stuff. Even didn't fire me when I parked in front of the garage (his parking space) in the back one day. I was yelled at but, not fired. It sure was an adventure. It would make an awesome documentary.

[@roninIX]

Would be interesting to see mocapped actors also have a VR headset so they can see themselves in the virtual world. Then you have the virtual cinematic camera that the directors are controlling etc. Most gamers are not new to this since we have our VRChat as a number of VRChat users use some form of full-body tracking. But stuff like this gets you thinking about what cool things that can be done in an animated production. This is cool and awesome stuff and can't wait to see where this will go.

[@chrisbullock6477]

Its one thing to be "Gamer XYZ" and a totally different thing to be a creator in the 3D/Animation/Acting space.....

[@Devamac]

Best video Explanation for UE and workflow. Very nice!

[@chrisbullock6477]

That one guy on the left, is still confused on why he was told he was needed on this call...LOL

[@tbowren]

Great presentation. You guys at AMGI are really ahead of the curve. I always look forward to see what you are up to next.

[@AMGIStudios]

Thanks, Tony! We appreciate your support.

[@PHATTrocadopelus]

This is so awesome!!

[@TobyCochran]

Cool to see them working on the Tony Robbins project... that's going to be fun to see. Congrats AMGI crew.

[@AMGIStudios]

Thanks, Toby! We're super excited to be collaborating with him.

[@brickhouse1978]

very cool stuff

[@rohanmandke1920]

Amazing, Loved it

[@AMGIStudios]

Thank you, Rohan!

[@pawkyweasel]

By Jove this is great stuff

[@StaxKarratGang]

Love amgi ty for your tech… immi rules

[@travellermercury5703]

super cool

[@AMGIStudios]

Thanks!

[@andrewherrera7735]

On the live thumbnail foodfight showed up. I thought that this presentation was going to be behind the scenes about foodfight.

[@StaxKarratGang]

Colin Brady the Goat 🐐

[@luckyenam4819]

Wait the face expression drives the body taught that was with the mocap suit

[@BigChiken44]

>Highest-Quality Character >Foodfight on preview

[@AMGIStudios]

Haha, that was not our intention to have that be the preview, it's autogenerated by YT. To clarify, AMGI is not affiliated with Foodfight.

[@Parallel-game]

Greetings 🙏

[@Renzo-cn4zw]

1:29 oh no NO is that foodfight i'm going to hell this

[@DennisTamayo]

Pre-rendering bad, real-time rendering good.