Animating in Unreal Engine 5.1 | Unreal Fest 2022 

[2:28] Hotkeys [4:55] Create world [6:20] Create Level Sequence [7:08] Add character [8:00] Animation Mode [10:30] Box Rig Controls [11:40] Pivot Mode & Proxy Control [15:33] Edit timing [16:45] Tweens Tool [18:27] Add, Blend and Edit Animation Clips to Sequence [21:24] Animation layer [25:38] Bake Animation [27:48] Constraints

You keep cutting to the speaker's face talking when we would want to see what he's doing on screen instead. Makes it hard to follow.

It is an excellent demo, and I am sure the instructor representing it is a good looking person so the camera is on him when he tries to do things, but I am interested in what he is doing more. Unfortunately, I missed some of his tutorials due to that. I hope next time make the picture of the instructor smaller so we can follows his demo!!. Thanks.

Great video, just please keep the program on the screen more often :)

I just don't understant why you must switch between UE screen and speakers face during he is showing something important, please keep video just on the screen for all the time :-(

Kind of annoying that the camera goes back to his face, while he's explaining where it is he's clicking. Like it happens a couple of times, where we then return to the screen, and I can only guess how he got to where he is. (I think 25:15 is really peak this) but it happens a couple of other times. I would suggest just put his face down in the corner? It makes it harder to follow is all. That said, I really enjoyed the presentation

This is one of my favorite overviews of the new animation features in 5.1!

I could not follow and miss out important part when you keep cutting from screen to the speaker face. Maybe I am too slow.

Say, they have this Animation Physic Calculation feature in this software called Cascadeur, it would be really cool if Unreal would bring something like this to the table.

25:04 Thanks operator

Thanks for this! One thing i would recommend is when everytime he talks about something to do with the layout where he is clicking it would be good to see that screen instead of the camera looking at the presenter. This way we learn what buttons on the UI he is pressing.

Man...I just don't think people really appreciate what this means to small and solo devs. This is GREAT! I mean procedural animation, using layers for animations as being additive is WONDERFUL! However, it is crazy to think what kind of projects can really be turned out...in shorter times. With the release of the PS5 it was really obvious that regardless of 2020 games are taking significantly longer to produce. This really takes me back to the GDC presentation given by the developer of overgrowth. Bringing animation and programming closer together. Being a solo dev myself...there's no way I could EVER venture into any of this without so much of the groundwork being laid inside the engine itself by the brilliant minds behind unreal. This really cuts out the iterative work. Stylizing seems less burdensome.

I succeeded in making a weapon reloading animation in UE 5.0. I'm very excited for 5.1 because it was one of the most difficult things I've done and I refuse to touch animations until the next version comes with all the improvements. It was so difficult without a constraints system LOL. I'm hoping to basically not use Maya for animating any more. Gonna be so awesome.

Will the cardboard box rig be available to download somewhere for closer inspection?

This demo is super useful for animators !

I love the timing bar. My favourite animation tool in maya.

Man! My animations are about to reach a whole new level!

6:34 That's the first time I've ever seen anyone make use of that Developer Folder. I never even considered using it like that.

Thank you! I desperatly needed these features! Excelent work xxxx

Few things that stop me from using UE5 as the one app for animation. First, there're no more richer tools to work with animation graph, at the very least things like stretching, push-pulling and smoothing curves would be enough for majority of tasks. This is especially would be crucial for working with mocap data to clean it up. Second, the constraint setup is way too simple. Blender has much richer option on constraint setup along with its influence value. These are definitely amazing to have, but for now mostly these are baby steps. If UE5 devs will be able to fulfil the lack for those features in Sequencer - that will be the bomb!

This is amazing, really love the automatic pivots! Only thing missing is the skeleton creation and weight painting, and it's basically a super amped up version of BGE. Love it! Two thoughts: 1. If you select an actor/object, could we get not just a list of parents, but also a list of all children and siblings? This would make navigation a whole lot quicker, and up the transparency within the hierarchies. Especially if you then can select (and maybe focus on) it by clicking it. 2. Can we set the influence of a constraint, or is it binary? 2b. If we can set the influence, can we do it with curves and not just predetermined tangents? We're animators after all, we need the curves, haha. 2c. Can we blend constraints? Like in the example of passing the ball between hands; being able to blend between the parents' influence may not be a super common use case, but very useful whenever needed. Hoping for a lot more videos with Fredrik!

Finally a really good presentation, and who ever edited it managed to cut out important parts of what he was showing. Hope they redo some of this information, and even add bits and pieces to it. Was a good presentation regardless.

Think they'll ever create a quick control rig setup? Most people use Blender to rig their characters and animate, because it's just so much quicker.

I love 5.1! Thank you so much for developing this amazing paltform. Great live :)

When he has the window stuck up at the top of the outliner at @9:00 I felt that on a deep level. I have probably had to reset my UI at least 3-4 times this year because I somehow got my window stuck in oblivion when it spazzes out and pushes it to the top

Really great talk but I beg you, please never cut away from the editor view when he's demonstrating something. The split screen view is fine, sometimes seeing him gesturing is useful, but for a talk all about how to use this new interface, it's very important that we always see it.

14:14 That's why you should buy or collab with Cascadeur!

Is the list of hotkeys/preferences available? I don't see a link for that, but having that doc would be super helpful!!

Did the guy animate a clip like Attack On Titan in the end? It's amazing!

Great Talk, are the project files for this accessible online? id love to dissect how the cardbox is rigged and setup!

that proxy control is amazing!

This is so useful! I was loosing my mind over how to make a "Null" to attach an object to. This is way better than I'm used to (C4D), but it is really powerful. Thank you for your effort with development, looking forward to new ways of doing things!

These constraints are great. Blender has this already and it's neat seeing Unreal bust this out to haha

not sure why they dont use the puppet -record mode, so you grab the object and move it in real time while recording. at least youll have the timing and spacing recorded. specially with this object would've been very useful.

Can you add a button to current camera view that selects that camera. Like in 3ds max...it fould speed up things. Now I have to read what camera is in view, then find it from world outliner... Sloooow

OMG i came from blender and have been trying to find a way to parent that is this simple (28:00). I scoured youtube and google and it was so complicated compared to this method. Thank you so much!

More accessible outfits and rigged characters in the marketplace as this tech improves would be great. When I tried using the control rig a couple years back it the animation was jarring and rigging buggy, but worse was the fact my characters barely had choice to clothe or hair / customise them without outsources extortionate softwares selling their 3d stuff on packs. Allow more creativity to the marketplace so that more options breed new content / ideas to the community. But yeh, each year these improvements make this more accessible, awesome work 👍

ue5 needs a spherical gizmo so you can rotate from any angle and not just the x y z axis.

@19:28 - alright, camera guy is fired. Mr. Nilsson is giving visual cues to the screen and the camera has only Mr. Nilsson in view.

Great news about constraints but can u make the constraints weighted please so we can blend them on or off smoothly so things don’t snap?

Very powerful updates!

I started this video, ready to complain because it's not like the other animation softwares but i'm impressed, UE5 seems very intuitive!

The "it should have showed up there" moment is my constant struggle. Is there any "Solving issues" kind of video to guide throw what to do then?

I suggest making animation mode that is ultra light performance wise, so that UE will work as smooth as possible and won't crash during certain operations. Animating Metahumans with control rig in complex game environment isn't enjoyable.

Step1: Spend ~10 minutes or so setting up the editor so that it’s different from anyone else’s. Check! I think it’s generally accepted that when teaching a subject you should be using defaults with the only exceptions being those that help the audience see, or hear what you’re doing.

Really nice.. love flexibilty of Unreal now can be accesed by Traditional Animator..

Dang, this stuff useful, changed my life lol

Change to face at every critical moment

Thanks for the content!

I would love it if you could select more than one axis when moving like you can in Maya by selecting in-between the axis you want within the gizmo.

This stuff is great but I REALLY miss the old format with Andrew Paschall when the guys who make the engine could come in and give a 2-3 hour lecture about how they would accomplish something. That was the peak of informative and helpful content coming out of Unreal Engine. It feels like the Unreal Fest videos are the only ones coming out anymore that really get into the details of how UE tasks can be properly performed.

From the creators of the terrific "where are the slides?" comes a new thriller "where did he click?".

Where did he right click to find "Collapse all sections"? Because they didn't show the monitor when he did it.

Great tutorial. learned a lot 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿

Awesome showcase

dayum.. the PC he uses is so fast and responsive.. i wish i had PC like that..

The camera cut away at very important parts. Pretty bad editing but pretty great program. 😢

Why do you show the guy instead of what the guy is doing on screen? Who came up with that idea?! Was it to piss me off? cause it worked

Having so much fun playing with all this stuff 😂

Dammit Tony, why can't you let the guy talk about Push-pull, its important stuff . I get that some of you only want to get to talk about Mocap related stuff but not everyone do mocap. And if I had proper documentation you wouldn't hear anything out of me about that but this video is pretty much all we have in terms of learning resources about this.

When I drop the CR_Mannequine_UE5 into the level, the animation panel does not show up. How/What did you do with the box? How do I connect my mannequin's control rig to the sequences. This feature is awesome where are additional tutorials?

Great video! 😄

lokoling forward animating in ue5 insted of maya

Fun and useful! Well done thx!

Is there any way you all could fix the viewport navigation controls for the orthographic viewports in Unreal Engine? In perspective view, Pan is middle mouse, Zoom is right mouse. In ortho viewports you flip these controls. Pan is right mouse, Zoom is left+right mouse. Unreal is the only DCC in the industry that does this. All other DCC's have a unified viewport navigation. I would love to animate in Unreal, but I also use the orthographic viewports when I animate. Having the controls flip on me is annoying and a deal-breaker.

please keep the video on the UE5 screen

@27:41 I think he should've just Saved All first to pick up the baked animation sequence.

thank you. so many class new toys 2 play with

Love it!

Coming Back here after running into an issue with control rig. Has anyone solved the problem where you cannot rotate a control 360 degrees without the animation breaking. I thought the Euler Transform setting on the controls would fix it but nope still not able to do spins or twirls.

So, does this mean that I don't have to use Maya or Blender for Animations?

Amazing stuff, but please keep the camera on the engine! Does anyone know where he gets the 'Animation' tab from? He makes it appear by dragging the box in but I can't find how to show it in editor. Found it - still not sure how to re-add it if its closed though

Yea but baked animations don't have working IK, legs or hands

Dude why is the camera on the guy doing the demo so much!? I'm here to learn and I can't see what he is doing!

It says Unavailable in my Epic Game Launcher. Whats up with that? Cheers

why my rig it's can not do 'Bake to control Rig',i creat a 'control rig' for my actor.Is there a more detailed tutorial?

why do you keep switching footage away from the demo ???????????????

and where is the cardboard download link?

Just asking when I use the fall animation and rotation the whole body 90 degrees down and press key. It looks like its working but when I go and use it, it rotates back 90 degrees. Im using the basic unreal fall animation and rotating the body 90 degrees to make it look like hes skydiving but it wont stay it just rotates it back when it plays in game. I use the root bone or the pelvis and niether works.Need some help.

that was a rough ride

great stuff! But can u REUPLOAD? ....and say ur cutter that the face of the presenter is not as important as showing the Screen ;) ❤ with all love

awesome presentation of the new features, it's a shame the video keeps showing his face right when he's showing where to find these new feature, STOP DOING THAT EDITORS .

we need DARPAs robotic algorithms and data analytic tools to make animations a walk in the park, everyone spam DARPA to help us

Great demo. That Tony guy seemed like a real jerk lol😂

NOooooo... i dont know the 2 rotate ArcballRotate & ScreenRotate... this is relly awesome. invertmiddle mouse already in my preferences. for who want start every new project with this preference enabled, add this string in the file : c:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.0\Engine\Config\BaseEditorPerProjectUserSettings.ini bAllowArcballRotate=True bAllowScreenRotate=True bInvertMiddleMousePan=True Invert Middle Mouse is present as False, switch to "True", the other 2 rotate, paste below the middle mouse preference.

very cool!

are you able to make animation programmatically?

awesome

Please make a cool car rig.

really good but it would have been even better if the camera was not on the guy so much. I don't need to know what he looks like and more what he is doing.

Interesting to see he lost his baked anim. Developer folder content not searchable? I’ve hit that before

Where can i find the project files?

metahuman plugin cant use on 5.1,, dang it

How to animate IK_Handgun????

hello i can create materials in ue5 like in substance designer? I am interested in creating patterns and lace. Thanks

@25:05... smooth 0.o

WHAT'S INNNNN THE BOOOXXXXXXXXX

That was a weird way to end the video... I hope he's OK 😅😅😅

Amazing! Bye bye 3ds max, I was sick and tired of you lol.

It's absolutely hilarious watching these guys stumble using tech they literally created 🤣🤣🤣 Always seems as though the users who just learn it and post vids on youtube know their software better than even the developers who create the software do. In reality, it's probably just cause they're thinkin about everything else it can do too, but still.