Skillshare – Facial Animation & More In Unreal Engine 4 – 3D Character Animation (Part 1-2)

Skillshare – Facial Animation & More In Unreal Engine 4 – 3D Character Animation (Part 1-2)

• You will learn how to create high quality facial animations & more!
• Learn how to export morph targets (expressions) out of DAZ Studio and bring them into Unreal Engine 4
• Create high quality blink animations, the basis for realistic characters
• Animate side-to-side and up & down eye movements for believable characters
• Animate Mouth movements and mouth expressions.
• Animate head movements with the little known animation tools within Unreal Engine 4
• Create believable, expressive expressions, right within Unreal Engine 4!

This is Part 1 of the 4 part series.  

6 Lessons (48m)
1. 01 Get Programs – 1:59
2. 02 UE4 Show Morphs Preview – 1:29
3. 03 Set Up DAZ Morphs – 20:13
4. 04 Morphs to Timeline – 7:53
5. 05 Export FBX Import to UE4 – 9:26
6. 06 Organizing Scene – 7:24

IN THIS COURSE YOU WILL LEARN:

• How to prepare your DAZ3D character for export to UE4 with all the morph targets and expressions you wish
• How to use the PUPPETEER tool in DAZ as a way to export morphs and animations
• How to properly import your DAZ3D character with it’s skeleton, rigging, morph targets, materials and textures
• Learn where the morph sliders are in Unreal Engine 4 and how to use them
• Create a realistic blink animation for your character
• Create side to side and up & down eye movements for your character
• Animate mouth movements for speech as well as expressions
• Animate your characters head movements
• Create and animate believable expressions
• Learn about amazing new tools that work in conjunction with UE4 such as Allrightrig & Akeytsu
• Plus much, much more!

NOW IS THE BEST TIME TO LEARN ANIMATION!  SO GO LET’S BEGIN!