0:00 intro 0:42 blender scene setup 2:11 creating animation 5:58 make the animation cyclical (looping) 6:46 improving the wave animation 12:29 animating the rest of the upper body 14:54 exporting animation from blender 15:28 importing animation into unreal 15:50 modify animation graph to play wave animation on the upper body
5:23 Totally me lol Spent a couple hours practicing animations infront of the mirror to see joints angles and compensational moves when I had to animations on my own for one of the projects :D I don't know what been making me laugh harder the action itself, or my wife glaring at the process lol
On a serious note (and I haven’t had a chance to watch the whole video yet bc I’m at work so sorry if you talk about this) but have you explored squash and stretch or smear frames in unreal?
@@CosmicComputer I'll definitely be looking in to it - I've been avoiding Scale keyframes since my project is more about realism, but it will come in handy at some point haha
You spared the default cube, the cube god is happy. Jokes aside, very nice video that leaves us with a solid foundation to start learning by ourselves :)
HAVE MERCY! Thanks mate :) It always feels a bit silly covering the core basics, but I guess it has to be there for people to refer back to when we're doing the JUICY stuff!
@@PrismaticaDev absolutely! also you do them very well and it has a clear impact on us, we do a lot of stuff so fast that usually would take much longer to learn ♥
Saw you posted this video on reddit. The way you break down animation makes the process less intimidating as I was planning on trying out animation for my own games but didn't quite know where to start. Thanks dude.
Hey hey! It should be working - maybe try a fresh install of the add on. It’s 3 separate plugins so try searching “Jim Kroovy” and removing all his add ons before installing again :)
I lately had problems with the ue4 asp character and a implemented blendspace could you do a tutorial for fixing that? (when walking sideways the aimspace looks in the wrong direction)
@@PrismaticaDev i tried using the look at node but still the offset is off and when moving sideways the character will just move along instead of replacing the rotation
Is there a way to import a UE4/mixamo or whatever animation compatible with the mannequin skeleton as a sort of "Template" and be able to modify it? Sublime tutorial quality man, keep it up!
Hold up, how did you get the animation to work on your character just like that? Is it because the animations works seamlessly alongside the mannequin rig? You were just able to drag it onto your character and it worked?
Dang, that's kind of amazing lol. Another question: Is it possible to animate in Mr. Mannequin here using a custom character? Ideally, you'd want to be animating on the character you've modelled, and not a mannequin. At around 1:15 you switch the mannequin model, would this tab perhaps be where you'd import a custom model? If there are any tutorials out there for this, I'd appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction. Thanks, and great video!
@@quinoah_ sure can! The tool comes with some rigging options (for rigging to the UE4 skeleton setup, custom skeletons will come in the future) and then it will be set up and ready for animation. Jim Kroovy has a great video on his channel where he rigs a character in 10 minutes
Ah, gotcha. Thanks for the info! I'll definitely look for that video on rigging of his. His channel is so full of videos though it's honestly a little overwhelming lol
is there a way to combine retargetted animation data and blender animation data at the same time. Like if i make a character waving in blender, but I have an idle animation I like in unreal engine, can I combine both in unreal? I'm trying to figure out a clear pipe line using retargetted animation data so that I don't have to do frame by frame all the time.
You could try using Blend Poses Per Bone in the Animgraph - I have a video explaining how to do it so maybe have a watch and see if it's what you're looking for :)
for making this simple animations have you tried recording while playing animation , grab any control and start moving it , while playing your animation (with autokeying), youll see it will record every single frame, thats a nice thing, you can even play the animation slower so you can make that more accurately, i really wanna try that with VR, because that would accelerate so much the process of animating anything.
Cheers! Bit longer than I expected, but I made it so that future videos will be shorter since I won't have to explain the basics over and over again haha
I got stuck at 3:11, following all the steps, when I move the elbow, the hand and shoulder stay in place. I've tried googling around, checking deform was on. It's stuck. Can you think of what would fix?
@@PrismaticaDev ive seen some of his videos but I havent yet found a spot where he mentions using a custom mesh, ill be lookin forward to your vids on the subject
@@lemonworm AFAIK the process is exactly the same as skinning and weight painting your mesh to any other kind of skeleton. You match the proportions, bind it to the armature and create the weighting for the bones. Done.
@@RyoMassaki of course, but the mr mannequin armature is rather complicated to try and fit and parent to a new mesh, and other people manage to rig characters to the UE skeleton without the use of the addon. I suppose I could import the simple default armature from UE into blender... Is that generally the process people use?
@@PrismaticaDev I'm not just enjoying I'm also using it 🤣 the additive video was a life saver. This one was more on the animation side but I would have love to have something like this when I was starting, you are doing an amazing and unique work, 🤔 maybe I will rant a little about this on Twitter, I'm making a compilation of my mistakes as gameplay animator there, and I was thinking about this today.
Hey J Birch - if your character is rigged to the UE4 skeleton (same names and same positions) you'll be able to use any of the Mannequin-compatible animations you have :)
![Animating your first Walk Cycle | Adv. Anim Application [UE4]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/r0z51oSS48E/mqdefault.jpg)
![Animating your first Walk Cycle | Adv. Anim Application [UE4]](/img/tr.png)
![Character Movement [Prismatica DevLog #01]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/hb8z-V4nMto/mqdefault.jpg)
![Layered Blend Per Bone | Adv. Anim Application [UE4/UE5]](/img/n.gif)
0:00 intro
0:42 blender scene setup
2:11 creating animation
5:58 make the animation cyclical (looping)
6:46 improving the wave animation
12:29 animating the rest of the upper body
14:54 exporting animation from blender
15:28 importing animation into unreal
15:50 modify animation graph to play wave animation on the upper body
Absolutely legendary, thank you so much :) Added to the description/play bar!
@@PrismaticaDev Thank you!
6:45 "this animation looks pretty bad, and is not acceptable... unless you were, you know, making a particular MMO with Unreal Engine" LMAOOOOOO
I couldn't resist hahaha
I missed the reference.
@@heramann6916 consider that a blessing hahaha
@@heramann6916 look for DreamWorld 🤣
That particular MMO with Unreal Engine :D Dreamworld reference, nice! Thanks for the video!
Just saying what everyone was thinking :P
5:23 Totally me lol Spent a couple hours practicing animations infront of the mirror to see joints angles and compensational moves when I had to animations on my own for one of the projects :D I don't know what been making me laugh harder the action itself, or my wife glaring at the process lol
You should do an episode on fog and be all like “hello, welcome to advanced fog application, the show where we demystify.... myst” :D
Reeeeee can't believe I didn't make that pun in my fog tutorial :'(
On a serious note (and I haven’t had a chance to watch the whole video yet bc I’m at work so sorry if you talk about this) but have you explored squash and stretch or smear frames in unreal?
@@CosmicComputer I'll definitely be looking in to it - I've been avoiding Scale keyframes since my project is more about realism, but it will come in handy at some point haha
@@PrismaticaDev hey, you’re the boss ❤️
he didn't ,'(
Dude, these tutorials are legit gold!!! Thank you!!!
You spared the default cube, the cube god is happy. Jokes aside, very nice video that leaves us with a solid foundation to start learning by ourselves :)
HAVE MERCY!
Thanks mate :) It always feels a bit silly covering the core basics, but I guess it has to be there for people to refer back to when we're doing the JUICY stuff!
@@PrismaticaDev absolutely! also you do them very well and it has a clear impact on us, we do a lot of stuff so fast that usually would take much longer to learn ♥
Saw you posted this video on reddit. The way you break down animation makes the process less intimidating as I was planning on trying out animation for my own games but didn't quite know where to start. Thanks dude.
You are a gift to this world man! Thank you so much and keep the amazing job!
Any chance this will get an update for Blender 3.0? Python errors with rig. Went back to 2.93 to follow along. Working fine there.
Hey hey! It should be working
- maybe try a fresh install of the add on. It’s 3 separate plugins so try searching “Jim Kroovy” and removing all his add ons before installing again :)
@@PrismaticaDev All 3 were just installed today. Rig comes up but no color on rig. Python errors on install and when I change mannequin in pulldown.
this is a bit funny, we start with really advanced rig but learn how to set basic keyframes
That's because the rig is supplied by the Mr Mannequin plugin. It's an animation tutorial, not a rigging tutorial :P
@@PrismaticaDev pretty cool
Does he respond?
Does who respond???????
@@PrismaticaDev pog
This is all good, of course. But it's not clear where is the skeleton itself? How to bind your mesh? To do skinning. Etc.
Elbows are killing me. Its so hard to control them. The only direct manipulator is actually the shoulder
I lately had problems with the ue4 asp character and a implemented blendspace could you do a tutorial for fixing that? (when walking sideways the aimspace looks in the wrong direction)
I'm not reeeally a huge fan of aimspaces, I personally prefer using a Look-At Target IK solution for that kind of stuff.
@@PrismaticaDev i tried using the look at node but still the offset is off and when moving sideways the character will just move along instead of replacing the rotation
Your cat is adorable. Thank you for including: )
I was so focused that I didn't notice the cats in the background until I watched the video again.
I love this comment section😂
Hahaha it's wild :')
more animation tutorials, AND cats??? huge pog
Your channel is easily the top 3 best for UE Devs
Thanks so much Nukima! Very appreciated :)
Do you still animate with Mr Mann when animating with a weapon or tool?
Great video, thank you!
i love you i havent been able to find any good tutorials and this is the best
Can't fool us. We know it's the cat on the bottom left of you who's really doing the animation! (great tutorial btw) :)
Haha they're the ones running the show! Glad you enjoyed :)
i use this rig every day and had no idea u could hide joint targets like that 1:45 😭
06:55 HOLY SHIT THE SHADE!!!!
Amazing tutorial as always
Hahaha couldn't resist. Hope you learneded a thing!!
I understood that reference!
Is there a way to import a UE4/mixamo or whatever animation compatible with the mannequin skeleton as a sort of "Template" and be able to modify it?
Sublime tutorial quality man, keep it up!
I didnt even watch and i can smell its going to be a good video!
Smells like knowledge with a side of smack talk!
huge !
Hoooooooge!
does this work with UE 5.1?
your cat is cute. he looks like a tiger
12:40 - “if I was a human person” hmmmmmmm.
Hold up, how did you get the animation to work on your character just like that?
Is it because the animations works seamlessly alongside the mannequin rig? You were just able to drag it onto your character and it worked?
Yep - the character uses the UE4 skeleton so there was no retargeting needed!
Dang, that's kind of amazing lol.
Another question: Is it possible to animate in Mr. Mannequin here using a custom character? Ideally, you'd want to be animating on the character you've modelled, and not a mannequin.
At around 1:15 you switch the mannequin model, would this tab perhaps be where you'd import a custom model? If there are any tutorials out there for this, I'd appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction. Thanks, and great video!
@@quinoah_ sure can! The tool comes with some rigging options (for rigging to the UE4 skeleton setup, custom skeletons will come in the future) and then it will be set up and ready for animation. Jim Kroovy has a great video on his channel where he rigs a character in 10 minutes
Ah, gotcha. Thanks for the info!
I'll definitely look for that video on rigging of his. His channel is so full of videos though it's honestly a little overwhelming lol
Had to get that Cat Tax in there.
Very small fonts....
is there a way to combine retargetted animation data and blender animation data at the same time. Like if i make a character waving in blender, but I have an idle animation I like in unreal engine, can I combine both in unreal? I'm trying to figure out a clear pipe line using retargetted animation data so that I don't have to do frame by frame all the time.
You could try using Blend Poses Per Bone in the Animgraph - I have a video explaining how to do it so maybe have a watch and see if it's what you're looking for :)
@@PrismaticaDev Thank you!
KITTAH!
looking forward for this series man, keep up the nice work
Thanks mate :) I'm loving making these videos!
thank you so much
for making this simple animations have you tried recording while playing animation , grab any control and start moving it , while playing your animation (with autokeying), youll see it will record every single frame, thats a nice thing, you can even play the animation slower so you can make that more accurately,
i really wanna try that with VR, because that would accelerate so much the process of animating anything.
This is rad, and I'm excited to see more!
Extremely happy to hear that! :) I'm excited to record more videos haha
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Then what's this?? ^^^
@@PrismaticaDev A string link to a message
Simple & perfect video Ty 💛
Cheers! Bit longer than I expected, but I made it so that future videos will be shorter since I won't have to explain the basics over and over again haha
10/10 would watch again
Thanks my dude :) Hope it helps out!
Damn yer a wizard, Charlie.
I'm a WHAT?
I got stuck at 3:11, following all the steps, when I move the elbow, the hand and shoulder stay in place. I've tried googling around, checking deform was on. It's stuck. Can you think of what would fix?
Moving the Elbow target doesn't move the shoulder/hand at all, just the way that the elbow is facing. You need to move the hand separately :)
"very core basics of animation" ahhh yeah
how do you go about weight painting/rigging your model to work with the UE skeleton?
I'll be covering this in some future videos, but I believe Jim Kroovy has a nice video on rigging using Mr Mannequin on his channel :)
@@PrismaticaDev ive seen some of his videos but I havent yet found a spot where he mentions using a custom mesh, ill be lookin forward to your vids on the subject
@@lemonworm AFAIK the process is exactly the same as skinning and weight painting your mesh to any other kind of skeleton. You match the proportions, bind it to the armature and create the weighting for the bones. Done.
@@RyoMassaki of course, but the mr mannequin armature is rather complicated to try and fit and parent to a new mesh, and other people manage to rig characters to the UE skeleton without the use of the addon. I suppose I could import the simple default armature from UE into blender... Is that generally the process people use?
Great video :)
Thanks Dumblytical! Hope it inspires you to get animating! Haha
I'm here 🤣🤣🤣🤣
He's here!! :)
Amazing work like always!!! 🙌
Thanks legend
@@PrismaticaDev I'm not just enjoying I'm also using it 🤣 the additive video was a life saver. This one was more on the animation side but I would have love to have something like this when I was starting, you are doing an amazing and unique work, 🤔 maybe I will rant a little about this on Twitter, I'm making a compilation of my mistakes as gameplay animator there, and I was thinking about this today.
nice!
Thanks Warren - you're nicer!
Awesome!
Cheers Mart :) You're awesome!
Nice Comment
Mean comment
HOW COULD YOU
@@FerlinDev How could I?? How could YOU!
@@PrismaticaDev I WAS BEING NICE. You were the mean one
How would I change the ue4 mannequin to another mesh and keep the animations?
Hey J Birch - if your character is rigged to the UE4 skeleton (same names and same positions) you'll be able to use any of the Mannequin-compatible animations you have :)
@@PrismaticaDev Thank you!