🎮 Maya To Unreal Game Animation | 01 Intro To Unreal Engine

Learn how to create animation in Maya and import it into Unreal Engine! Skylar Surra (Principal Animator at Riot Games), takes you through the basics of setting up Unreal so you can get an animated playable character in the engine.

Although we don't start animating straight away, this episode is the foundation that will set you up for success and make your character look as appealing as possible inside the engine!

⚡ You can download the Thor Rig for free on our website -

Thor was created by:
Hicham Habchi [concept art]
Guillaume Tiberghiem [3d artist]
Character generously provided by Keos Masons

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Chapters:
00:00 01. Course Introduction
02:31 02. Creating The Game Project
07:59 03. Preparing The Rig
17:53 04. Importing The Character
24:23 05. Testing The Character
34:49 06. Fixing The Materials
45:08 07. Adding Props
52:28 In The Next Lesson...

[ChrisYearn]

This is a great series, thanks Skylar and Agora! The reason the materials look too shiny by default in Unreal when all of the texture files are connected is because sRGB gamma correction is being applied to most of these images by default when they are imported into Unreal, which messes up the specific material values they are supposed to be controlling. To avoid this, before you add them to a material you can first open up each greyscale or black and white texture (roughness, metallic, AO, etc) and untick "sRGB" and save. Then when you bring them in to a material they will be using the correct grey values and the material should look correct. This step is only necessary for the greyscale images, sRGB should be on for the colour map in most cases, and Unreal usually recognises normal maps automatically and applies a setting to them that disables sRGB on them.

[lilmoff]

Holy shit an actual good course by someone with real experience? For free?? They really meant it when they said not all heroes wear capes.

[pinkhairblackman]

26:51 reference riggs
41:44 increase roughness
50:04 export freeze and history

[Mumblr]

Can we please get another series of this? one that focuses on Combat or NPC behavior? such a great course, PS would pay to do courses like this!

[jonaki]

Love the video...hope the series will be continue more advance workflow

[anthonyflores]

Hopefully I can log in soon to start this need to download Thor rig

[jayodyamethmal]

love this man keep it up we are with you

[apdata]

Hi!
Did you di animation on the "Joints OR Controllers" in Maya?

[shadowmurlock]

I'm unable to save the .mb file. It saying there's a third party plug-in that is preventing from saving?
EDIT: Nevermind I was trying to save the file as a binary instead of a ASCEII or whatever its abbreviated.

[dariamerkulova]

Absolutely incredible course and the Skylar is telling all aspects really nice and clear.
Highly recommended and thanks for making this series.

[lucas-xfsx]

Does anyone know how I can import the Mjolnir into Unreal Engine 5? I have a mannequin rig and a Mjolnir rig that I want to import into Unreal, but I can't figure out how to do it. If anyone knows how, I would appreciate the help.

[saurophaganax_]

Hey uh... I know this is 2 years old but... I was really eager to start learning this, game animation and development is my dream. But my Laptop just can't handle Unreal. Do you have, or does anyone knows, a similar series but with Unity?

[JoeBlow-vxpo]

Hi do you have a tutorial for exporting character idle poses from unreal? I found one unreal link online but all I get is the T pose even though I used these steps > select the Animation Sequence, right click and create an Pose Asset. The pose comes in the T pose only. I need to export a couple of these idle, run, walk etc poses to use as a reference in Maya.

[CGsynapz]

Getting weird deformations when i import the bones from the referenced maya file. WHen i use original maya file without referencing, i dont get the deformations. any tips on this?

[-Gkogk-]

Is there a way for a beginner without Maya to follow this course? ( is this for animation beginners ??)

[SuperMontana]

I thought you have to set maya to Z up?

[jorgepatrickbalabis]

One crucial missing step here is they forgot to mention to tell the viewers to use Game Ready" rigs else you will be in a lot of pain... LOL

[Test-nyl]

Question. From my understanding, animating in Maya (or a software similar) and then porting it over to Unreal heavily complicates the workflow and essentially creates the need for technical artists.

Would it be viable to use Control Rig, (Perhaps motion tracking like Rokoko) and the animation tools within Unreal to work almost exclusively in the engine and thus streamline the workflow?

[Hazardteam]

NOBODY watch this at late night. The speach has ultra low volume, the intro "music" is ultra LOUD even RUMBLES.