Metahuman Animator Part 3: Combining Mixamo and FBX body animations with Face Performance Capture

🥇First Part here :    • Troubleshooting Metahuman Animator fo...  
🥈Second Part here :    • Metahuman Animator Part 2: Fixing det...  

With a very special thanks to Ibrews for providing the clues

🎥🍿 Want to know how to combine Face Performance and Body animations in Unreal Engine and Metahuman Animator?
👉 Have a seat and give me 15 minutes to share and troubleshoot issues in this pretty dense workflow 🕒

Here we'll cover:

Timestamps :
0:00 Introduction
0:37 A bit of theory
01:44 Unreal Project pre-requisites
02:16 Getting files from Adobe Mixamo
3:37 Mixamo to UE5 Retargeting solutions
04:53 Mixamo Animation Retargeting 2 plugin in UE
06:09 Editing Metahuman Face Anim Blueprint
07:45 Face performance capture conversion
10:19 Scene setup
11:11 Preparing body tracking for external assets
12:13 Head last tweakings before adding performance
13:53 Optional Face anim blueprint rollback
14:31 Final thoughts and outro

Discussed topics:
#tuto #tutorial #UE52, #metahuman #metahumans, #mocap, #epicgames, #unrealengine , #unrealengine5 , #motioncapture, #performance, #performancecapture, #controlrig, #adobe , #mixamo , #fbx , #retargeting , and so on

Thanks for watching 💖
comments and questions are welcome, I'll do my best to help!

🪢 Useful Links:
- metahuman.unrealengine.com
- dev.epicgames.com
- @ibrews Youtube channel

Contains visuals from "Blue Dot" short movie by 3Lateral/Epic:
   • Blue Dot: A 3Lateral Showcase of Meta...  

🏃‍♂️MIXAMO CONVERTERS :
1/ (Used here), paid 49.99$ : https://www.unrealengine.com/marketpl...
2/ Evans Bohl name-your-price blender-based converter : https://evansbohl.gumroad.com/l/mixam...
3/ Terribilis Studio free Mixamo Converter 2 : https://terribilisstudio.fr/?section=...


Hope it will be useful!
Enjoy animating ;)

By the way, I'm Paul, aka SUPER3, freelance Technical Art Director in France.
You can contact me for visual/technical projects at :
[email protected]
or on freelance platform malt.fr/profile/paulpuaux 🖖