Animating Characters and Objects

Introducing movement in the form of cinematics and character animation.

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The Unreal Engine provides powerful tools for animating characters and objects and for creating cinematics. With Skeletal Controls, you can directly control the bones of a Skeleton asset. Control Rig gives you the ability to create dynamic and procedural movment for your characters. These tools work together with Sequencer to let you create complex looping and branching sequences of animations.

Animation Node Technical Guide

Guide to creating new nodes for use within graphs in Anim Blueprints.

Maya Animation Rigging Toolset

Overview of the Maya Animation Rigging Toolset.

Pivot Painter Tool

A landing page for the Pivot Painter Tool for Unreal Engine 4.

Virtual Cameras

Unreal's Virtual Camera system is used to drive a Cine Camera inside Unreal by using a modular component system to manipulate camera data and output the results to a variety of external output providers.

Skeletal Mesh Animation System

System for deforming skeletal meshes based on keyframed animation data and morph targets.

Sequencer Editor

Sequencer is Unreal Engine 4's mult-track editor used for creating and previewing cinematic sequences in real time.

Matinee and Cinematics

Animation tool enabling you to animate the Actor properties over time, either to create dynamic gameplay or cinematic in-game sequences.

Paper 2D

Paper 2D is a sprite-based system for creating 2D and 2D/3D hybrid games entirely within Unreal Engine 4.

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