Create your own character and animate with metahuman | Unreal Engine 5 tutorial

Create your character and animate it using Metahuman, an Iphone and Unreal Engine 5. When processed by AI (Kaiber or Stable Diffusion) the final result will look close to an anime or cartoon cinematic. Anyone can do it!
This is the second part of a larger series.
0:00 - Intro
0:13 - Creating a custom character
1:01 - Setup a scene
1:50 - Put your character in the scene
2:25 - Light your character freely
3:12 - Adding reactions to your character
3:58 - Record and animate your character
4:46 - A little extra
5:11 - Final result
Check out my previous tutorial here;
• Use AI to create a wor...
Tools used:
metahuman.unrealengine.com/
www.unrealengine.com/en-US/un...
Assets:
www.unrealengine.com/marketpl...
#unrealengine #ai #cinematic #animation

[@pauloscher]

You're amazing dude, your videos are easy to follow, simple and objective. Well done

[@retrolightgames]

Thank you for watching Paulo!

[@GamePrototypes]

Another day another great tutorial. Very nice!

[@retrolightgames]

Cheers W!

[@zen1thar]

Great tutorial! Very cool! 👍

[@retrolightgames]

Thanks Zen1thar!

[@lioneldelmas1814]

Great tutorial ! Thanks! 👍

[@stellamk_jff]

Thank you so much for making such usefull tutorial❤

[@retrolightgames]

Glad it was helpful Stella!

[@mridulthesinger]

The best channel on unreal engine , till date ❤

[@retrolightgames]

Wow, thanks!

[@vitoriavision]

this is amazing

[@retrolightgames]

Thank you Vitoria!

[@AiTechEconomy]

nice one!

[@retrolightgames]

Cheers AiTech :)

[@namondastudio4616]

Thanks for sharing, great stuff... Can you make a detail tutorial about cartoonizing inside UNREAL PROJECTS ??

[@retrolightgames]

Thank you Namonda! The process of cartoonizing inside unreal is not as quick as for example in Kaiber, however it is fully possible by using post-processing volumes and for example cel-shade your entire scene. Usually this requires your base-models to fit the cartoonish styles, so it's more constrained and complicated to get a "uniform" look on everything unless you have a big pack of models/assets. Stable Diffusion or Kaiber on the other hand just creates this cartoonish look for you. Search for "Unreal Engine 5 cel shaded" on youtube and see some examples if you want to do it in-engine :)

[@namondastudio4616]

@@retrolightgames Thanks!! Bless

[@Imad_Hamouda]

thanks bro

[@retrolightgames]

Thanks for watching :)

[@timsyble3065]

Sorry a silly question, how do you render the comic book look in the end, from UE or is it just from final cut?

[@brandonjacksoon]

O! Hello Sir. Unreal! Nice to meet you on your phone camera :))

[@retrolightgames]

Hello there! =)

[@yearight1205]

Here's a question for you. Do you by chance know how to take 2 animations and put them together so that the upper body does 1 thing and the lower body does another? I tried blending them, but I got a mix between the 2. I don't need a mix between the 2, I need the upper doing exactly 1 thing and lower body doing exactly the other. This is for sequencer not video games. Please can you help?

[@retrolightgames]

Yes you can blend two different animations by bone (so that lower body is doing another animation than the upper body) I could make a quick tutorial of it but here is the documentation if you're curious docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/AnimHowTo/AdditiveAnimations/

[@yearight1205]

@@retrolightgames thank you for responding. Using this method, what exactly would you select in sequencer though? I am learning Unreal Engine to create short films, not video games. This seems like a blueprint setup for in game.

[@hatetheorcs5727]

Is there a way of making a still image of a bear look alive? I want to make seem like it's breathing (chest movement)

[@ThomasMandelid]

What kind of workflow do you use to record the audio? A separate take?

[@retrolightgames]

Hey Thomas, yep, I just recorded the audio while looking at the character. However one could record the audio while doing the actual takes and sync them (It's probably a better idea than doing them completely seperate)

[@kardozo]

Thank you for this video! But how can we animate a character that I created with Midjourney??

[@retrolightgames]

Hi Kardozo, midjourney characters are a bit harder to get in, but it's possible. Search for "Midjourney character to metahuman"

[@NxcoProduction]

When i go to LiveLink my iPhone doesnt show up but i followed all the steps before

[@marcinkl]

Is there any Android application that will be able to capture traffic to UnrealEngine?

[@noculture_official]

hey are you open to collaboration?

[@retrolightgames]

Feel free to write me an e-mail on the contact page!

[@noculture_official]

@@retrolightgames will do boss!

[@sakeebfaruque6828]

If U dont have Iphone then what??

[@retrolightgames]

Unfortunately "Epic" does not seem to have plans for android support yet, it's a shame!

[@sakeebfaruque6828]

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[@vitoriavision]

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[@retrolightgames]

YES

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