METAHUMAN Basic control rig UNREAL 5.2 (how to get started in animation) easy quick guide

Learn how to get started in this basic and noob tutorial on how to setup your meta human to start animating. The basics of sequencer and how to pose and animate your meta human. This is designed for noobs and to get you into animating as quick as possible so you can start messing around. We will get more advanced but lets start simple:) Unreal 5.2
This starts of where our last tutorial ended but you do not need to see that in order to use this one:)
Link for Gen 9 to metahuman 5.2:
• DAZ GEN 9 to METAHUMA...
Thanks for watching:)

[@john_codes]

This was exactly the tutorial I was looking for! I keep finding tutorials on how to make control rigs (not what I want to do), but hardly any good tutorials on how to actually animate using control rigs. Thank you so much, subscribed! You're hilarious too lol

[@imagineeverything]

Legend thank you mate. I’m glad it helped:) have a great Sunday.

[@GLYNCURTIS]

Learning with laughter the channel should be called..... I'm literally dying with laughter, funny man! Subscribed.....

[@imagineeverything]

Ha thank you mate:) I do enjoy making them:) why not have fun :) welcome

[@s.patterson5698]

In 10 mins, you broke down the basic concept and made me feel that even with my small brain power this is possible to learn. Thank you.😊 Annnnnnd as others have said, your levity was perfect comedic timing😂😂😂

[@imagineeverything]

Hey thank you for this wonderful comment:) It always makes me feel good when I see that the vids actually help a few:) Thank you and Im so glad they helped:)

[@davidpereira_fx]

love your tutorials ! love your humor !

[@imagineeverything]

Love you bro:) thanks for the kindness :) always appreciate it:)

[@AlexisRivera3D]

Thank for your time sir, I thought it was difficult but it's really simple (I am a Blender user)

[@imagineeverything]

Any time mate:) enjoy and have a great weekend:)

[@Deck_Dynasty]

Goodbye, Disney.

[@imagineeverything]

Whoa you watched it that far into it:) Thank you:) I feel the motivation already from you:) have a great night mate.

[@kavi995]

Me too start to end and end to start

[@sanketvaria9734]

ok, but how do I save it as an animation asset so I can use it for other game stuff?

[@imagineeverything]

Right here:) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpi8dIyvrcyhic0

[@Gaamer-r9b]

can u use ue4 or 5 mannequin animations on uefn mannequin? that came out with the project? also have u ever animated in blender ? i have a huge issue here, in blender when u use rotation u an rotate any angle, in unreal it is axes by axes that feels weird

[@imagineeverything]

Hey mate :) yes you can use any animations on any other rig. You just need to retarget them. I got tutorials on both but ue 5.4 is a breeze. Check out my build this now series first vid. As far as blender and ue go. The rotation. In ue 5.4 you can set that gizmo to work like blender or Maya. Forgot what it’s called but look up gizmo for animation settings in ue 5.4 . I’ll do a quick tutorial on this but you can find it fast:) hope this helps :)

[@gorano3667]

Thank you for the tutorial! So I did all this, have my 2 meta characters in the level sequencer. Now I saved it yesterday and when opened it today, I don't see the rigs any more.. how do you show the rigs again?

[@imagineeverything]

Hey glad it helped. Yes they don't show until you open the sequencer and click on the face rig or body rig. Open the arrows on them once and see the rig and highlight it in the sequencer and you'll see the rigs again:)

[@gorano3667]

@@imagineeverything OK, I didn't have any animation at that time.. so I had to delete the character from the sequencer and import again. Then the rig was visible. Now after I got some keyframes I followed what you said and somehow the rig appeared. It is soooo not user friendly software. I think even Epic games when they advertised some animator positions wrote: need to be able to animate in Maya and export the animation to Unreal. This tells a lot about animation capabilities of Unreal engine. Thanks! I think I'll do my anim in maya and export to unreal.

[@imagineeverything]

Ha actually animation in ue. 5 is pretty good. I’m also a maya animator but lately using more and more unreal:) give it a go and get used to it. Ue has become really powerful:) ok have fun and a good night mate :)

[@damnilfx5788]

@@imagineeverything Auch im Sequencer wird mir kein Rig angezeigt. Selbst wenn ich die einzelnen Parts des gesichtes anklicke, passiert nischt

[@imagineeverything]

@@damnilfx5788 Hello mate:) We have had this issue before here. It was because it was a bad install. you need to delete all MH and then reinstall it. Sometimes it installs badly in alot of cases. Try that and let me know:)

[@yahbin77]

Thank you sir. I can now initiate my 8 year old "3D animation curious" daughter into creating animations.

[@imagineeverything]

THats awesome to hear mate:) Im trying to do the same with mine but she sais my art is dumb and ugly😆. So it makes me happy that I can help yours:) Its a great life if she gets into it at such an early stage. All the best and shout if you have any questions:)

[@yahbin77]

@@imagineeverything Sure Sir.. Baruch Hashem Willing. I will try to come up with a 3D animation musical video just as my daughter desires. You know, like the good daddy-girl tag team challenge stuff?. Thanks for reaching out sir.. Between. Keep rocking us sir with your delightful tutorials.

[@imagineeverything]

Enjoy it all mate:) Nothing like daddy daughter bonding. My little one is definitely boss around the house 😆. Walks around like she own everything HA. Wouldn't have it any other way. Thank you mate:) @@yahbin77

[@UnproductivelyBusy]

Meeensch 😂 Love your tutorials. Really helpful.

[@imagineeverything]

HA Thanks mate:) appreciate the kind words and happy they help:) AAGGHHH MMMEEEENNNNNNNNCCCHHHHHHH :)

[@imricor2250]

At around 11:27 you mention posing instead of animating but you never elaborate further on it. Do you have a separate vid on that aspect?

[@imagineeverything]

Hey mate. No but it’s in the pipeline to do:) hopefully not to long :)

[@Letscreatestudios]

Thank you very much. That was really helpful and liked your way of humour 😊

[@imagineeverything]

That’s nice to hear mate:) glad it helped:) thank you and welcome to the channel:)

[@Artofraytracing]

man just subbed to ur channel coz ive been looking for this and ufff found

[@imagineeverything]

Legend . Thanks mate . Awesome it’s helping :)

[@Artofraytracing]

i was creating a 3d sifi a shortfilm with a car chase , fight , romance need to finish within 3 weeks dont know gonna make it or not hahaha@@imagineeverything

[@imagineeverything]

Ooofff that sounds like a massive undertaking:) good luck mate :) let us know how it went :)

[@NesarKaviyan]

Thanks dude

[@imagineeverything]

Anytime mate :)

[@timpolster]

Hello, fascinating video and software. I do not work with 3D animation but have always followed its progress. It seems like too many things to change to be productive. All of the keyframes needed for body and facial expression would keep one very busy for only a few seconds of video. Are there affordable tools like gloves or hardware that take input so some human acting can be translated? I know there are at the upper industry levels but for home use? Thanks!

[@imagineeverything]

Hey mate :) so actually animating the human can be quick. Meaning if you have automatic keyframing you just need to move using ik and you can be fast. However yes animation takes time. There are a few good mocap suites out there for home . I use the Rokoko suite. It’s cheap and pretty damn good and does full body including hands and face gear . Around 4-5 k which is alot but cheap for what it does. Then there is the xsence for around 20k which is alot more accurate but damn . The price :) there a few hack ones you can create for home but it will take the know how and work to put it all together and work. I recommend the Rokoko as it’s quick to setup, gives decent result with a bit of cleanup and does not break bank:) hope this helps . And yea you can use it for metahuman or any other program to:)

[@timpolster]

Thanks for your reply!@@imagineeverything

[@imagineeverything]

@@timpolster Anytime mate:) have a good weekend:)

[@humanoid9787]

Look into AI mocap solutions and metahuman animator

[@nocopyrightfsa3237]

So helpful , thanks

[@imagineeverything]

Thank you mate:) Thanks for the kind words, always appreciate them:)

[@Noooby-h8p]

Love it 😂😂

[@imagineeverything]

Thank you:) and welcome :)

[@poolianjam3313]

gute arbeit

[@imagineeverything]

Danke danke ☺️

[@Tata-v5n]

6:10 PTFFF PTFFF PTFFF PTFFF 😂😂😂

[@imagineeverything]

They were born to dance :)

[@primephasegames]

Thanks bro u saved my bum

[@imagineeverything]

That is awesome to hear:) Thank you mate and glad it helped:)

[@peglegkangaroo]

great now i can make my movie where people dont walk run swim or move their center of gravity at all! most people are seated or standing with their legs either firmly planted or on one leg like a flamingo. why spend 10 out of 20 minutes on face animation when everyone is just gonna use their phone. such a waste of time without covering the most confusing parts of animation for beginners. everything i learned from this video couldve learned the same amount just stumbling around sequencer animator

[@imagineeverything]

You don’t belong here

[@skiddleee]

ACH MENSCH 😂

[@imagineeverything]

Naaaaaaaaa❤️

[@brandoncrapo7416]

This made me laugh out loud in my basement enough times that I logged in to subscribe.

[@imagineeverything]

Hey mate:) Thank you and that's nice to hear that I could make someone smile n laugh:) Love that :) Have a great day🙂

[@tahnaiyarussell]

Same here 😄😄

[@PeterOmowaye-qc1cm]

Than you for this video, i have always been scared of going into animation in unreal because of the interface. i would like to ask if in blender, my workflow is pose to pose animation ( Blocking) before moving to spline. is there a way to do that in unreal engine

[@imagineeverything]

That’s great to hear :) thank you. Yea it works exactly the same in unreal. I’ll be doing a tutorial on that but may take a bit of time. :)

[@CriscrafterTV]

10:54 ACH Mensch!

[@imagineeverything]

First words I learnt in Germany:)

[@WrenchMonkey91]

when I add the rig it looks great and I pose my character but then when I click off the rig onto something else the rig disappears and I can't seem to get it back

[@imagineeverything]

Just open the sequencer and click on the body or face rig and you should see it again :) let me know :)

[@Playworriors]

it is very hard to get a realistic animations without mocap. verrrrrry hard

[@imagineeverything]

Yeeess but not really. Ive been meaning to get out a tutorial on just that. Animating a meta human from scratch... Ill have one out hopefully in the near future:) Dont give up. Animation is such an art. Study the human in the meantime and we will cover this:) Push boundaries and don't give up. Ill show a nice way of also using free mocap and adjusting it the way you want it.

[@HeshamHazem]

Thanks bob!

[@imagineeverything]

Anytime mate :)

[@ShanmukaSai-w7q]

mate , i didnt get level sequencer , how to Enable it

[@imagineeverything]

Right click in your content browser . Under cinematic you’ll see level sequencer. Make on and drag into your scene :)

[@dpixvid]

Looking forward to mocap for face, body in Unreal. Thanks for showing tweaking IK. Peace bro.

[@imagineeverything]

Hey big man:) how are you:) Nice one yes hopefully coming soon:) There alot of tutorials I wanna do with metahumans:) have a great weekend my friend:)

[@Богдан-щ3в5к]

Спасибо)

[@imagineeverything]

В любое время мой друг

[@cookiigames]

Wow! That really helped, I learnt a lot and i love your sense of humour 🤣

[@imagineeverything]

Aww thank you mate :) what awesome words to come into the weekend with:) thank you and glad your here :)

[@Stricknines]

When I did this I didn’t get controls for the limbs. Just the whole object. Followed it twice and still nothing. Not sure what did wrong

[@imagineeverything]

Hey mate. If you only seeing some controls it could be something wrong with the install.. Add your character to a sequence and delete the control rig if you see it. If not then you should see head and body. On each hit the plus button and add the head rig to the head and the body rig to the body. Let me now if that helps:)

[@yashicaputhraan5785]

@@imagineeverything Hi I was facing the same issue but even after adding the parts differently from that plus button it dint work Those controls are still not visible

[@imagineeverything]

@@yashicaputhraan5785 Could be a bad install guys. As soon as you bring it in Sequencer you should have a dead/face rig and a body rig. If its not showing up make sure your importing the right metahuman version for your UE version. So when creating the MH on site make sure its for 5.4 if your using 5.4. Otherwise sounds like a bad install. delete MH and install it again.

[@yashicaputhraan5785]

@@imagineeverything The version I am currently using is 5.2 I used the built in animation and connected it to the meta human for now but it will be great it I get it to work the way it worked for you.. I will try again in the version 5.4

[@Stricknines]

@@imagineeverything I downloaded it and it worked the third time. Thank you!

[@gameguardians646]

What 's dis dis dis dis ?😐

[@imagineeverything]

It’s the key to any good artist working alone :)

[@b1zarr3vel]

What?

[@imagineeverything]

@@b1zarr3velThink they referring to the song 🤷‍♂

[@metatronorder3565]

Thanks my Bruh - Your humour (and skill) is the stuff of legends - Quick question -> have you seriously thought about doing a star wars film clip using a meta human? I'm making (or attempting to) a short UE 5.3 S/Wars clip and intend to use a customised metahuman as the main character so in the words of Solo, 'Here goes nothing'... Peace Bruh...

[@imagineeverything]

Yo thanks man:) much appreciated mate. A Star Wars short eh. Nice . I’m more into my horror n stuff but love seeing some of these Star Wars shorts people do. If you ever have something let me know. I’d love to see it buddy:) good luck and keep us updated :)

[@tahnaiyarussell]

You're hilarious, I very much enjoyed this 🤣🤣🤣. Are you from SA? or is it Germany?

[@imagineeverything]

Hi and thank you :) I was born in SA and now live in Ze Germanings (Germany) I change german words alot.😆. U from SA?

[@tahnaiyarussell]

​@@imagineeverything Oh wow, I'm getting good at this 😄 I'm from London but I live in California. We have a lot of SA's in London.

[@imagineeverything]

@@tahnaiyarussell Yeah alot of us moved there. I lived in Brighton for 10 years. Loved it. Nice so your an English American now:) You Say ALLO LUV with an American accent HAHA. Nice:) I do Miss the UK though.

[@tahnaiyarussell]

@@imagineeverything 😄😄😄 my accent hasn't changed, only slight CA inflections now. I miss London summers.

[@imagineeverything]

Well Americans love the Brit accent so you should be just fine 🫠

[@Mr_Kisch]

You South African right?

[@imagineeverything]

Howzit bru and welcome to the channel :)

[@Mr_Kisch]

Me too! Starting the development of my game in November and am super excited to join the community of South African developers.

[@imagineeverything]

@@Mr_Kisch You still in SA?

[@Mr_Kisch]

@@imagineeverything yup! You in the uk right heard a bit of the accent in the video.

[@imagineeverything]

Was in the uk. Now Germany

[@michaelemerson570]

Your hilarious digressions and distractions made me subscribe.

[@imagineeverything]

Ha thank you mate:) I have fun doing them:)

[@leben9989]

great tuto , you are very funny

[@imagineeverything]

Danke :) im glad it helped . Thanks for the message mate:)

[@xxokata]

i absolutly love how you get distracted to headbang and shake them hips. Glad I am not the only one. Happy to sub!

[@imagineeverything]

😊 thank you. Yeah I get distracted alot. ha Thanks for the kind words mate:) Nice to have you here.

[@M101-k3u]

Subscribed, love your commentary, very funny. I’m off to make my character head bang

[@imagineeverything]

Thank you:) and welcome :) feel free to shout if you have questions:) nice to have you here 😃

[@LatvianALIEN]

eeeeehhh

[@imagineeverything]

My German I presume🤣

[@krisskun2516]

Needed for my University project, very well explained, fast and precise into the point thank you so much.

[@imagineeverything]

Amazing to hear mate:) Really does bring me joy knowing they help:) Good luck for the project:)

[@Slava_]

Your comments in video are very fun ))) keep going!

[@imagineeverything]

Thank you mate:) I appreciate the kind words:)

[@amadeo8070]

im not seeing the rig controls when i put my metahuman into the sequencer, any idea why?

[@imagineeverything]

So you have a level sequencer ? And you added the metahuman.? Did you follow the steps one for one. When the metahuman in in sequencer when you open it up in sequencer do you see the words face rig and body rig ? Let me know and we can try work it out

[@Ditmor-StreltsovBogdan]

for some reason, my hair does not follow my head, but remains in place. I move my head and they just hang in the air in the same place

[@imagineeverything]

Are you moving them via the rig ? Or just moving the metahuman around. Only works through the rig

[@Ditmor-StreltsovBogdan]

​@@imagineeverythingit wasn't that, I've already solved this problem, anyway, thank you for responding to comments, success in your work 😁

[@imagineeverything]

Good to hear and likewise mate:) @@Ditmor-StreltsovBogdan

[@noonesbiznass5389]

Very helpful video, thanks! Also, have you noticed in UE 5.3 that the MH Control Rig doesn't show up in the animator? It does the first time you bring the asset into the project, but it never shows again. Any thoughts?

[@imagineeverything]

Thank you mate. Glad it helped. Odd mine shows up. Perhaps a glitch in your project. Try deleting the metahuman from the scene and staging it back in and then I to the sequencer . Let me know :)

[@noonesbiznass5389]

@@imagineeverything Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately, it didn't work by deleting the MH and adding it back. Are you using version 5.3 by chance?

[@imagineeverything]

Yes I am. Hmmm maybe a bad install of metahumans. So in sequencer you click on the face right right. Must say face rig. You need to open the arrow once or twice

[@noonesbiznass5389]

@@imagineeverything Yep, it seems to be the project itself. I started a new Project and migrated the MH over to it, and it works fine... weird. Thanks again for your quick replies! You rock.

[@imagineeverything]

That’s awesome:) yeah unreal can mess up a lot sometimes:) have a great one and thanks :)

[@threedai]

humm tssss tsss tsss !! you made my day !!

[@imagineeverything]

Ha thank you and you made mine:) Have a good night:)

[@집념의사나이]

4:09

[@imagineeverything]

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[@BriefHistoryofWorld]

I followed the steps precisely, but the control rig did not appear in the viewport. How do I make it visible? Any ideas as to why it might be missing in the first place? I do see the words Face Rig and Body Rig in the sequencer, BTW. It says: MetaHuman_CtrlRig and Face_ControlBoard_CtrlRig

[@imagineeverything]

Hey:) ok so if you see those and you click on them you still don’t see anything ?

[@imagineeverything]

Also if you expand them do you see all the names for the controls? A huge list under the rig controls

[@BriefHistoryofWorld]

@@imagineeverything I see all the names for the controls. I think the problem is I imported and retargeted an animation from Mixamo, and now I have to bake the animation to a save file. I don't know how to do this.

[@imagineeverything]

@@BriefHistoryofWorld Ahhhh ok yes. In order to have this on your rig you will need to right click the animation in the sequencer and choose to bake the animation file to keys for control rig. Ill be doing a tutorial on this soonish:) Re targeting then adding it back into the control rig as keys and being able to go from there. So if you cant wait then search for Baking out motion capture to keys for control rig:) you can only use one at a time. Wither Control rig or animation files but you can convert either to the other:) hope this helps mate:)

[@BriefHistoryofWorld]

@@imagineeverything Thanks. I'll let you know how it works.

[@theone8625]

THANK YOU BRO! ⚡️👌👍😀

[@imagineeverything]

Yo anytime mate:) glad it helped :)

[@gnoel5722]

So helpful bro, thanks!

[@imagineeverything]

Anytime my friend:) thanks for watching 😃

[@Benjamin-vx2ot]

Danke! Genau danach hab ich gesucht 👍😊

[@imagineeverything]

Geil:) Danke Bro . Happy it could help:)

[@violentpixelation5486]

Das ist gut. Sehr gut! 😉 Thanks alot! Big timesaver. #UnrealEngine I lost it when "Shake them hips!" 🤣

[@imagineeverything]

Ha danke mein Fruend:) Friend. My german is bad:) Im happy it helped. Shuuuuss:)

[@violentpixelation5486]

​@@imagineeverything😁👍💯