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Unreal Engine 5 Character Creation, Animation, and Cinematics. Create custom 3D assets and bring them to life in Unreal Engine 5 using MetaHuman, Lumen, and Nanite

Unreal Engine 5 Character Creation, Animation, and Cinematics. Create custom 3D assets and bring them to life in Unreal Engine 5 using MetaHuman, Lumen, and Nanite

Henk Venter, Wilhelm Ogterop

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Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) offers beginners and seasoned professionals the ability to create detailed movie scenes with realistic human characters using MetaHuman and combine it with custom props and environments. It also comes with built-in industry standard animation tools to develop such scenes in a fraction of the time compared to old methods. This book takes you through the entire 3D movie production pipeline using free (open - source) software.
By following the step-by-step, beginner-friendly tutorials in this book, you'll learn how to create your own custom 3D assets in Blender and texture these 3D assets in Quixel Mixer. Next, you'll take these completed 3D assets into Unreal Engine 5 and use them to build a virtual 3D movie set for your 3D movie. You'll also populate your 3D movie set by using Quixel MegaScans assets and create and customize your own photorealistic human character using MetaHuman Creator and UE5. As you advance, you'll discover how to rig, skin, and animate these 3D assets and characters using Blender and UE5's new Control Rig. Finally, you'll explore the process of setting up your movie cameras and animation sequences and rendering your 3D movie using UE5's Sequencer.
By the end of this Unreal Engine book, you'll have learned how to combine different elements in UE5 to make your own movies and cinematics.
  • 1. An Introduction to Blender's 3D Modeling and Sculpting Tools
  • 2. Modeling a Robot Drone Character
  • 3. Let's Sculpt an Alien Plant!
  • 4. UV Maps and Texture Baking
  • 5. Texturing Your Models inside Quixel Mixer
  • 6. Exploring Unreal Engine 5
  • 7. Setting Up Materials in UE 5
  • 8. Using MetaHuman to Create a Photorealistic Human for UE5
  • 9. Building a Virtual 3D Movie Set in UE5
  • 10. Adding Lighting and Atmospheric Visual Effects in UE5
  • 11. Alien Plant Joint Setup in Blender
  • 12. Alien Plant Skinning in Blender
  • 13. Robot Joint Setup and Skinning in Blender
  • 14. Making a Custom Rig for Our Alien Plant with Control Rig
  • 15. Creating a Control Rig with Basic IK Controls for a Robot in UE5
  • 16. Creating a Simple Swaying Animation Cycle in UE5 Sequencer
  • 17. Create Three Simple Animations for the Robot in UE5 Sequencer
  • 18. Importing Motion Capture onto the MetaHuman Control Rig
  • 19. Motion Capture Editing and Cleanup Using Control Rig and Sequencer
  • 20. Using Sequencer to Construct Your Final Scene
  • Title: Unreal Engine 5 Character Creation, Animation, and Cinematics. Create custom 3D assets and bring them to life in Unreal Engine 5 using MetaHuman, Lumen, and Nanite
  • Author: Henk Venter, Wilhelm Ogterop
  • Original title: Unreal Engine 5 Character Creation, Animation, and Cinematics. Create custom 3D assets and bring them to life in Unreal Engine 5 using MetaHuman, Lumen, and Nanite
  • ISBN: 9781801819480, 9781801819480
  • Date of issue: 2022-06-30
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_39ym
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing