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Facial Animation and More in Unreal Engine 4 3D Animation

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Release date:2020, May 28

Author:Michael Ricks

Skill level:Beginner

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Export your Daz 3D character to Unreal Engine 4 with morph targets and expressions of your choice
Use Puppeteer in Daz Studio to export morphs and animations
Import the skeleton, rigging, morph targets, materials, and textures of your Daz3D character efficiently
Find out how to locate the morph sliders and use them
Create a realistic blink animation for your character
Generate side-to-side and up–down eye movements for your character
Animate mouth movements for speech as well as expressions
Animate your character’s head movements
Create believable, expressive facial expressions within Unreal Engine 4
Discover amazing new tools that integrate with Unreal Engine 4 such as Allright Rig and Akeytsu

Unreal Engine 4 and Daz Studio are outstanding, freely available animation programs that allow you to create stunning character animations like a professional. This course uses high-quality Daz 3D characters to teach you how to export any morph target of your choice from Daz Studio and use it in Unreal Engine 4.

One of the most powerful features of Unreal Engine 4 is its ability to display animations in real time, unlike slow, sluggish systems that hinder your animation creativity. When you export your animation to an image sequence or to a video file for compositing, you’ll be able to render your animation in near real-time. You’ll also discover how to create high-quality facial animations confidently.

This course comes with the following five fully rigged characters that you can use in cinematics and videos:

Super Dude – Based on the Daz3D Genesis 8 character, Super Dude was created and sculpted in ZBrush by Michael Ricks. This character is inspired by the character from the hit film The Incredibles. Super Dude comes fully rigged with a ton of facial morphs and phoneme mouth shapes for accurate lip sync punctuation.

Wendy – Based on the Daz3D Genesis 3 character, Wendy is a cute toon girl character created and sculpted in ZBrush by Michael Ricks. She also has many facial morph and expression controls and can be made to come alive immediately in Unreal Engine 4. She has big expressive eyes, and can be easily made to emote in no time.

Lil’ Frankenstein – Based on the Daz3D Genesis 3 character, Lil’ Frankenstein was also created in ZBrush by Michael Ricks. Frankie comes with a wide array of facial morphs and can display many emotions.

Billy – Based on the Daz3D Genesis character, Billy was created and sculpted in ZBrush by Michael Ricks and comes with a wide range of facial morphs.

Epic Robot – This is a realistic robot character created by Epic Games for the hit virtual reality game Robo Recall. It comes with inbuilt animation and the sound of a “roar.”

By the end of this course, you’ll be well-versed with facial animation in Unreal Engine 4 and be able to create impressive character animations.

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1. Introduction to Facial Animation
01 – What You Will Learn In This Course
02 – Rigged DAZ Characters Included with Course
03 – Character Animation Example with Lip Sync Done Inside of UE4 Sequencer
04 – Download the Required Free Software Programs

2. From DAZ Studio to Unreal Engine 4
05 – Getting Morph Targets Into Unreal Engine 4 – Preview
06 – Preparing Facial Morphs In DAZ Studio
07 – Getting Your Morphs Into the Timeline
08 – Exporting DAZ Character FBX & Importing Into Unreal Engine 4

3. Setting Up Your Character Into Unreal Engine 4
09 – Organizing & Preparing Your Scene in Unreal Engine 4
10 – Fix character materials, clean up and organize morph sliders

4. Facial Animations & Expressions
11 – Lets start animating! Creating a realistic eye blink cycle
12 – Look at Me Now! Create a Turning Eyes Animation
13 – Look Whos Talking Now! Create an Open & Close Mouth Animation
14 – Animating Expressions! Bringing Your Character To Life!

5. Head & Body Movements
15 – Head Movement
16 – Body Movement

6. Lip Sync Animation & More
17 – Down & Dirty Lip Sync Animation In Unreal Engine
18 – Audacity for Dialogue Recording
19 – Recording Dialogue Live Along with Your Character Part 1
20 – Recording Dialogue Live Along With Your Character Part 2
21 – Add Secondary Mouth & Body Animation
22 – Bringing It All Together! Load Your Character & Animation Into The Sequencer
23 – BLENDSPACES – Amazing fun combining animations in Unreal Engine 4!
24 – Getting Your Character To Move Forward Over Distances

7. More Cool Animation Tools
25 – Akeytsu – The Amazing, Affordable, Easy To Use Animation Software

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