How To Create a 3rd Person Character with Animations | Unreal Engine 5 Blueprints Tutorial

Hey everyone, Virtus here. In this video, I'm going to be showing you how you can create a 3rd person character in Unreal Engine 5 with ready made animations generated from Mixamo. The character will have movement animations for idle, walking and running. If you like this tutorial, make sure to leave a comment below and subscribe. Stay tuned!

0:00 - Intro
0:44 - Importing the character
2:55 - Importing the character animations
4:55 - Replacing the default character
7:20 - Setting up an animation blueprint
10:10 - Setting up an animation blendspace
13:27 - Getting the character's speed
17:18 - Assigning the animation blueprint
18:54 - Outro

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[VirtusEdu]

Hey everyone, I hope you enjoy this tutorial where I teach people how to create a third person character with animations. Enjoy!

[TheRafaelAnimation]

Thank you for taking the time to clarify WHY you're doing things at each step of the process. It makes for a much better tutorial than others I've seen posted. Nice work !

[BIGHAM_VT]

Thank you for your tutorial!! I was afraid to pick up character animation blending in an engine for a long time, and this video made it really easy to understand.

[christofferplatou]

Literally the best and most thorough tutorial I've ever seen. Thank you so much.

[sam-psonsmith]

awesome content.
Great job at explaining every step and why we do it.

[nsrd]

This one is the best tutorial. Nicely explained !!! Thank you for this video.

[psquarepeter]

This is the tutorial I was looking for. Thank you very much. It was easy to follow and everything worked out great.

[SkepticMinds]

I have watched tons of Unreal Tutorials, and you really explain it the best you move slow and explain...please please do more tutorials thanks really

[LehushasProduction]

Best and straight tutorial!!! All worked, thanks!

[grzegorzabedzki]

Ach just what i needed. A short tutorial showing exactly what i want. Thank you very much for making this video, you have earned a subscriber!
I was really worried that i will have to watch a hours long tutorials to get my character walking haha.

[ahmdshbz]

I am glad that I found your channel. Really enjoying the tutorials. This video is a good starting point for creating animations for a 3rd person game. However, you can also try to show us with a Paragon character from Epic as an example and how to implement a locomotion and combat system animations together.

[tc]

Excellent, clear tutorial with a great pace

[TheoFilms]

thanks man! This was the best UE5 Tutorial I've seen so far!

[elronrubbard]

Great tutorial. You make it so simple to follow. Thank you!

[DJDCRYPTER]

Yess huge thanks for this, perfect timing as I was doing your RPG course (which is for UE4) and hit a number of issues during the character creation.

[Arrkail]

man, i wish this was more in depth, every youtube tutorial about character animation is just like this..
why not go deeper and more stuff such as dodging, wall running, braking, multi drirectional movement and more. like deep animation stuff..

[g.l]

Finally my character walk instead of sliding ... thank you

[SilentSniperMamoru]

Thank you very much, this was a very helpfull tutorial! I did make a mistake while connecting the nodes to get the velocity though and was stuck for a while not knowing why the animation state didnt change

[robinsonanimation]

great video! thank you for posting, can you now add more animations to it? it would make a great Part 2; like attacks, slides etc.

[mpcepoxy]

Hello, everything works great after following the tutorial, the one issue I have is the character can be seen looping back to the beginning of the walk and run animations instead of continuing seamlessly. Thank you for the videos!