How To Make An Animation Blueprint In Unreal Engine 5.1 | How To Animate A Character - UE5 Tutorial

Hey guys, in today's video I'm going to be showing you how to animate a custom character inside of Unreal Engine 5.1. I will a download custom character with custom animations, and set these to work in our game.
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00:00 - Intro
00:16 - Overview
00:38 - Getting Free Custom Characters And Animations
06:20 - Animating The Character
17:41 - Final Overview
18:51 - Outro
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[@hanksu2951]

This is very detailed and clear tutorial, thank you for making the video

[@CODwontons]

I've needed so many questions answers for Unreal Engine and I always find myself back on this channel - the Unreal Engine Source of Truth!! Thanks man!

[@Hawk4471]

This video saved my life! This was the only Tutorial which worked for me in the new Unreal version. Thx so much! :D

[@rooneyjohn]

Just amazing. Once again, I've watched other tutorials that are almost identical to yours....trying to make something work.... and fail. I don't know enough to understand WHY they are failing.... then I watch yours. Your tutorials don't skip a simple step (in this case the selection of "In Place" in mixamo) that is a key step into making this work! And we thank you!!!!

[@PatrickTheDM]

Keep those mistakes in because we the followers are sure to make them. Another great one Matt.😁

[@MattAspland]

Great to hear - thanks!

[@redpillproductionscanada5563]

Thankyou for all the help man, as someone who's completely new to game development this video helped me immensely.

[@kingmvrk1478]

Really saved my thesis project Dude. I cant even begin to thank you.

[@wadeeliason969]

Great tutorial. Your voice is easy to listen to. The information is clear.

[@dreamingacacia]

I know a lot of people still learning about this. I'd love to see more advance use for animation blueprints because I have no idea how should I implement more advance stuffs. Tho as a solodev I'd just use much simpler animating method than this since I'm doing animations myself.

[@TheMetalProject]

Had to watch 6 different videos but this was the one that worked. much thanks! I think most the other videos were base 5.0 . not sure if something changed in blueprints since then but made it quite difficult to find adequate material.

[@asdfdfggfd]

Thankyou for tutorial. Ooof Unreal is hard, its taken me 2 months of study to understand what is happening here. But now I do. Thanks again!

[@philipsaxin9820]

This helped me so much, thank you!

[@outtoplay]

Thanks, Matt. Very useful as always. If you ever get the chance, could you demonstrate how you would use a animation BP in the sequencer? (I think it would be an ABP). Basically, imagine this character walking, in the Sequencer. Then at some point, he was waving a sword, or throwing punches with the upper half of his body as he walked. Would be mighty grateful.

[@ezz1288]

Matt thank you very much, I love your tutorials!

[@MacGaiver]

Thanks for this one, saved me a lot of time!

[@DaniELGKDG]

Thank you so much!

[@JC-ex5ve]

Thank you, was really nice and simple

[@Steve-O1992]

Thanks for this Video Helped me learn a lot.

[@aleksboboychev]

Thank you!

[@0kV94]

Love it! Thanks a lot!

[@benblaumentalism6245]

Bravo! As always!

[@ronioclarenzo6137]

Excellent! Thanks a lot!

[@partialdata]

If anyone has issues with the char running all the time and not playing the walk animation. double check in the animation blueprint event graph you did choose the wrong node I selected Vector Length Squared LOL it's supposed to be Vector Length :)

[@barakmenachen289]

Great one into the point!!!

[@zuchmiyoff4734]

If youre able to, I would greatly appreciate tutorials on AI, specifically for behavior trees and how to make more complex things with them.

[@cihanay5091]

You are amazing! Thanks.

[@olliverkatana4168]

Thank you kind man.

[@chalwook]

Thank you so much

[@theshaderpilgrim6151]

Nice tutoriel, thank very much for theses informations, it's very usefull 👍

[@DeeDeeYoker]

A tutorial on going through a vent in first person would be great (if character is near box collision press key to enter vent)

[@HuwRees]

Brilliant.

[@greganpagulayan5008]

Very nice Tutorial :)

[@jakester-]

YOUR MY SAVOIR. I NEEDED THIS FOR MY GAME DEV CLASS CHECK IN SO, DIDNT LOOSE ANY POINTS

[@isj06291278]

thanks for kind explain:)

[@garffild]

Awesome explanation. Would also love to learn how to use a root motion with characters from mixamo.

[@benblaumentalism6245]

I wonder if the Max Z velocity could have been increased in the Character Movement component. I think the character may have been changing states too quickly, due to the short duration available to complete the jump. Raise it up to something like 900, and see if that looks better. Or jump off a ledge (as long as it doesn’t kill you) and see how they connect. Just a hypothesis!

[@KiwiHawk-downunder-nz]

Thanks so much for these

[@MattAspland]

My pleasure!

[@Sebaer]

thanks

[@YTcustomchris]

Great video!. Do you have a video about adding a attack along side of the Movement? I still don't understand animation blending with bones.

[@music-fb9fx]

great video

[@superlexadnepr]

Thanks

[@decafeagle690]

Hey Matt! I've been stuck on this problem for a while and was wondering if you could do a video on it? Basically I just want to make an outside audio change when you go inside and change back when you go back outside of the building. Thanks!

[@philippj5176]

If you run into the Problem, that the animation is played in full, so for example you press "w" your character starts to run forward and bounces back, your animation is not set to be static, but just starts at the point where your character is standing, and than bounces back to the position where your character moved to while starting the animation again. Don't worry. Open the content browser. Find the original animations you dragged into the content browser at the beginning (running.fbx ... and so on) In the content browser doubleclick on the animation. Now a new window pops up and you see the animation moving. On the left you should see asset details, if you don't go to top navigation bar, press windows -> asset details. There you will find 2 options: Enable Root Motion Force Root Lock For a lot of animations it is enough to just tick enable root motion. If that alone doesn't work just check force root lock too and you are good to go. The root, so the base where the animation takes place is now locked down to the position of the mesh that the animation is asigned to.

[@Blueman101]

Awesome guide, however I imported the Big Vegas model, and something is off with the face, it transparent/white?

[@UrbexUS]

I've seen other videos where in the event graph, they cast to the player character first instead of just going straight to getting velocity. Would that cause more to work around later, rather than the way it's being done here? I'm just trying to understand the differences in doing it either way.

[@Ganspeed03]

and what about about transformers animation like transformation machine? will it be difficult?🤔

[@HixonicGaming]

I'm still stuck on trying to create character movements and ai movements Major help. Great Content 🔥

[@MattAspland]

Hey mate, as mentioned in the video - you can check out this other video I made: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGrddniPbMl6l68

[@HixonicGaming]

@@MattAspland Thank you much appreciated

[@HixonicGaming]

@@MattAspland So from the miximo character can i also implement the shooter animations and add a weapon should do it

[@jakejuan-ue4pg]

if possible, add a jag animation in between a walk and Run?

[@117Masterchiefprime]

To fix the jump-up animation is only to go to mixamo and using the same animation, you just have to reduce the range of Trim from 34 to 100. So you will have the jump-up animation closer to normal

[@CB99364]

cool but my jump still starts after i jump

[@elden4267]

same for me@@CB99364

[@alexbluez7632]

you can also trim it in UE5 directly in the jumping up animation - left click where you want ur animation to start and then right click and then remove the frames

[@orionofodyssey7271]

Thanks so much for this video! It really helps getting into Blueprints. I do have some trouble with the landing animation, however.. When my character is just about to land, he disappears completely, and then reappears after about 1.5 seconds. Any ideas? I thought I followed every step of the Animation Blueprint as explained in the video. (I'm on UE 5.3)

[@amarshil2415]

Hi how to I add turn left or right animation can you make a Vedio? Btw love your Vedio

[@omerrudnick8195]

Would you be willing to do a tutorial on boss fights?

[@borrowedtruths6955]

I made an animation with the Cr_Mannequin_Body_Control Rig which opens up a sequencer, but I have no idea how to add the animation I made to my third person character so I can use it in play mode. Can you offer some advice or maybe point me towards a tutorial please? Thanks.

[@martinroca7298]

I have a problem!, i import the character plu the animationes , but in the asset browser i dont have the files with the animations, it say " No results, check your filter . Drop files here or right click to create content. im trying to drag into the folder the files and nothing!.

[@HasimFN]

when u run u immediatly go forward without the feet moving. other than that very good tutorial, thankyou

[@traviszombeck7379]

I seemed to follow the instructions perfectly but whenever i walk or run, my animation skips and ideas how to fix it?

[@lx1767]

do you know why I can't see the asset details when I open the blend space?

[@luong256]

uhhh anyone got any ideas as to why is character is phasing through the floor when the landing animation is being played?

[@GreenStream0]

The asset details on the left in the blend space are not showing for me. Do you know why?

[@RossieKgan]

Hi, i get the error "No smoothing group information in this FBX scene" when importing into UE5.3. How do i fix this?

[@SpiderohGaming]

Hopefully you will see this.. My model seems to still be stuck in the T-Pose. Is there any way to fix this? I followed all the steps twice and do not know what I am missing..

[@Ryuuoujin]

when it comes to landing animation my character just disappears for a few short while, until it switches to the idle/walk/run animation, any idea why? 🤔 Edit: Solved it, Additive Anim Type under Additive Setive settings, was set to "Local Space" for some reason.

[@lisowiligas1524]

Is your discord server full? Wanted to join but can't

[@EosoSss]

can i do it on the 5.0,3?

[@tomtomkowski7653]

Instead of changing the max speed of the character to match the animation it should be possible to just increase the speed of animation to match the character speed ;)

[@Merowings]

I cant insert the Animation blue print i made from this video as the mesh of my charakter any tips?

[@north6935]

For some reason blueprint cycles through my jump start and landing anims super fast even though the frames aren't much lower in the blendsace...

[@rubenssoares2137]

how to make the delay in Jump?

[@DreamWeaverTM]

I'm having an issue with importing the animations. I'm not using a mesh from Mixamo, but rather one from the asset store and I've applied movement and camera movement as per your tutorial on that subject. When importing animations, I'm getting an error which says *_Mesh contains root bone as root but animation doesn't contain the root track. Import Failed._* I tried to select SK_Skeleton since it doesn't let me import the animations without selecting a mesh, but the SK_Mannequin and UE4 Mannequin are the only meshes it provides despite having some from the UE asset store. What am I doing wrong, and how can I solve this?

[@CB99364]

rig the character in mixamo by pressing upload character and that should work.

[@alzearafat]

For some reason, Walk animation is not triggered when I play the game. It's just Idle but moving with Walk speed... :/ But Run animation is working perfectly. EDIT: Fixed it. It's not because Walk animation not triggered like I mentioned before, in fact, it triggered just fine. The issue is because I pick the wrong idle animation (Which I thought more interesting animation than what he pick). Tutorial never mentioned that if you use different Idle animation, it might won't work perfectly.

[@toninotonnato7776]

This could have been an amazing tutorial but it got chaotic and glitchy at the end. I would respectfully request a redo because you have great material and it’s a shame to not have a better version. Thanks

[@cymarin3d511]

Will this work in UE4?

[@muhammadaziz3834]

my falling idle animation keep looping, what can i do?

[@matheusfreitas9779]

For people who is having a loop animation (not in place/ fixed) You need to assign "In place" in box mark before download. You're welcome!

[@gabidrg4008]

you re a life savior

[@BaskinGobbins]

Is there another way after you download?

[@matheusfreitas9779]

@@BaskinGobbins I don't know. I don't think so.

[@BaskinGobbins]

@@matheusfreitas9779 i found a way that worked for me. search in (Animation Asset Details/Root Animation) Tick; EnableRootMotion/Force Root Lock Untick; Use Normalized Root.

[@EosoSss]

is it working on 5,0,3????

[@jahvinio]

I followed the whole tut but now when i Land my character dissepears for a sec and re-appears ?

[@user-mt9yp7br8d]

apps: Mixamo and Unreal Engine 5

[@e.b5237]

Could you help le on this, I’ve got it working at the beginning but some Animations are in a loop and as it begins walking then teleporting back 😂 how do i fix this?

[@matheusfreitas9779]

I have the same doubt too.

[@kirkcavanaugh1493]

It is crazy how every single tutorial I start for unreal game engine the very first thing that they always try to import into the game from somewhere else never works for me. So I am not able to continue the tutorial i i am not even able to get the main character

[@Ayrin69]

the jump is terrible how do i fix its timing?

[@princejohn8611]

Does anyone have this problem? when i import the character the texture is totally messed up.

[@zzraulinf96]

Primul

[@ptof5314]

I have an issue where the player just keeps teleport back when moving

[@davidripplinger8904]

My third-person blueprint is still stuck in the t pose after setting the custom animation blueprint, but I checked and made sure it was getting the variables like speed fed in just fine. Where did I go wrong?

[@davidripplinger8904]

Nevermind, I figured it out. I forgot to connect my Locomotion block to Output Pose in the AnimGraph.

[@EosoSss]

where is get movement component? i havent it

[@joshuadav10]

make sure you're using the right node. I had the same problem; you should be pulling from the Try Get Pawn Owner

[@egementon]

Is it any different from 5.0.3?

[@MattAspland]

Only if you are animation retargeting, setting up inputs, or importing GLTF files instead of FBX

[@nordfresh325]

wtf why is my asset details gone i cant open it again

[@clashface]

I did everything and made sure every single thing is OK but I got a really bad problem in animation while moving it'd moving really bad its like sliding then coming back to a position and loop continues, PLS HELP I NEED TO SUBMIT MY PROJECT I GOT 9 DAYS FOR DEADLINE

[@fallenslayer2268]

If you downloaded from mixamo make sure in place is checked so the animation does not move it's is on the right side

[@elenaki1750]

I followed everything but my character is still runnig

[@VanKrumm]

nocie

[@Petit_Prince_]

i don't know where i failed, but my animation has some lags, like, it makes me go back like if i had 999 ms

[@OmarUltraProMax]

if I hold space, the fall idle animation will be played all the time

[@jamesonvparker]

When my character lands, he shrinks until he dissapears during the land animation. Then returns to regular size. What did I miss? lol

[@alexgomez-bi2bk]

How do you print out or debug info like vector length or get velocity? I'd love to see Realtime numbers as I move to better understand this. I know it's pretty basic but it gives me more intuitive sense of the mechanics since I barely do programming

[@alexernst5407]

I copied the entire video but when I walk it plays the animation and moves forward and then comes back to the start and replays the animation

[@ilyasertunc4897]

there is 1 million things. is there a easy way just add animation in the caracther.

[@JesseTheGameDev]

That slide from walking to running is very unfortunate.

[@Oo-tn9xg]

But he's off the ground when walking looks terrible.

[@vrcatlady7227]

Your videos will be really good if you can just stop saying "LIKE SO" soooooo many times lol......by the way, if you hold the space bar, the character is double jumping, it will be great if you can show how to rectify that.

[@Out-Here.]

This is so annoying, i'm a beginner using 5.3 and you're using 5.1...totally diff screen. would have to launch the previous versions