Animating a Short Film in Maya and Unreal Engine
Throughout these lessons, we'll learn how to make Unreal Engine work as a viable render engine for an animated short film we'll create in Maya.
What you'll learn
Throughout these lessons, we'll learn how to make Unreal Engine work as a viable render engine for an animated short film we'll create in Maya. Preparing animation and assets for use in a real-time engine takes a different workflow than one might be used to working with in a normal render engine like Mental Ray. It comes with it's own set of challenges and things to work around, but ultimately the ability to render in real-time makes any of these issues worth it. Unreal Engine can become an invaluable tool, particularly if you don't have access to a render farm, by letting you create fantastic visuals with relatively modest hardware.
Table of contents
- Setting up Unreal Project Files 3m
- Best Practices for Creating Maya Assets for Unreal 9m
- Importing Maya Assets 6m
- Creating Materials and Textures 7m
- Adjusting Texture Maps 8m
- Creating Your Set in Unreal 9m
- Static vs. Dynamic Lighting 6m
- Set Lighting in Unreal 8m
- Using Post Process Volumes 9m
- Exploring Depth of Field 8m
- Animating in Maya for Unreal 5m
- Exporting Animation from Maya to Unreal 7m
- Exporting Camera Animation from Maya to Unreal 8m
- Adding Physics to a Character 10m
- Blending Animation and Physics with Blueprints 6m
- Editing Animations Together Using Matinee 8m
- Editing Camera Cuts Together Using Matinee 6m
- Animating a Flashing Light in Unreal Using Matinee 4m
- Rendering an Image Sequence Out of Matinee in Unreal 5m
About the author
At an early age Nathan Glemboski knew that he wanted to be an animator. Through his teen years he worked in Animation Master on various indie game projects until he attended Animation Mentor in 2007. After graduating in 2009 he moved to Tulsa, OK to work at Steelehouse Productions as a character animator. His passion for animation is only matched by his excitement for the budding VR industry and it’s potential for character animation.