Unreal Engine 5 (&4): Build a Control Rig from scratch. #UE5 #UnrealEngine #ControlRig

Starting from a simple, freely available skeletal mesh from the Epic Games Marketplace, this tutorial will take you step by step on how to build a Control Rig, and demonstrate why it is a great skill to have!

(NOTE - for UE4, you'll need to enable the Control Rig plugin)

Once you understand the basics from this video, you'll be able to expand on the use of Control Rig to more advanced characters as well - even your own!

Also, when you make it to the end: this is the link I mention:
(Please Subscribe and like his videos too - AND he replies to comments!!)

#UE5 #UnrealEngine #ControlRig

[DelfosseFoo]

Patient explanation of a complicated subject in the simplest of terms, pleasant voice and pronunciation, perfect pace. I felt compelled to compliment, because I've never seen a tutorial as good as this one in my 8+ years in gamedev.

[outtoplay]

I've been Computer Arts instructor at the School of Visual Arts for 10yrs+ You, my friend are an outstanding instructor. If you're ever in the NY/NJ area... the bourbon is on me : )

[unrealdevop]

Yes, the community needs more in-depth stuff like this on the control rig...there are very few that show you more than the bare bone basic stuff.

[crsbecausecrswastaken]

Thank you so much for NOT just copy-pasting everything, I feel it's a lot more beneficial to do everything from scratch to make sure your understanding of what you're doing and why is solid.

[daniellemorley]

As someone who is working on a custom rig of a monster with 112 legs, this tutorial has saved me so much time and effort. Thank you.

[mikailmaqsood]

thank you, you remind me of the best of the best internet teachers i had during my high school days: Patient, reassuring and clarifying.

[ScootenNewton]

You wouldnt believe how long ive looked for a video like this. I finally found it!. Thank you very much for spending the time to do this

[natnr]

Incredibly useful! Thanks for the great explanations and not cutting corners or skipping steps for the sake of time!!

[KungFuFishstick]

This is an awesome tutorial. Thank you for taking the time to make it, explain it as you went, and left in your trial and error as you were setting everything up.

When making the IK for the opposite side of the body, when you duplicate the nodes, you can right click, Search & Mirror/Replace. Mirror Axis X, Axis to Flip None, Search _l, Replace _r. This will change all of the names from _L to _R and should remove a few steps when assigning names.

[seanmenzies]

Only halfway through but this is really fantastic. You have a rare ability to pitch the information at low levels. A rare gem of a tutorial!

[_infectedfury]

This is a very good tutorial for control rig, probably one of the easiest to follow and I would love to see more of this.
Things like heel controls, full IK FK switching.
One that I would personally like is a way to set up a switch to have both hand IK driven by an object held in both hands.

Keep up the great work!!

[IndyStry]

For anyone who can't use Mirror option as shown on 29:32, what worked for me is before you mirror, you need to change the gizmo's space from local space to world space (in the 3d viewport of this window, look at the top right you see an icon of a cube with three axis coming out of it, when you click it, it will change to globe icon). Then select your left side controls and right click > Mirror. Then in the box, select X and X for both options. This will correctly mirror (My pole vector point direction flipped 180, easy fix but the other controls came in perfect) and will be ready to plug and play as the tutorial shows.
Absolutely awesome tutorial btw, really appreciate it! Subbed immediately for such detailed step by step UE5 videos breaking down complex topics like this! <3

[flufflepimp]

BEST tutorial on the subject Hands Down! Thank you so much!

[brockgallagher]

Just finished following this to make a control rig on a simple Gumby character to learn Unreal 5. IT WORKED GREAT! Hats off to you, this tutorial is so well made, goes nice and slow, shows where potential problems or things to look out for would be, just phenomenal. Looking forward to the continuation of adding fingers and twist bones as an icing on this cake. Many thanks.

[PormithipicusProductions]

I’ve the many tutorials I’ve gone through today yours was the first to work and easily follow, thank you for your work

[ahmdshbz]

Similar tutorials are available. But the delivery of the tutorial is super amazing. The way things are explained here are super easy to understand and follow. I immediately subscribed to the channel.

[chriswaller]

@24:30 Thank you for knowing exactly what you're doing. Precision is so much better for efficiency. It is appreciated greatly.
EDIT: And the shameless plug for your son at the end! Parenting done right.

[jsi]

Absolutely top notch. Worked correctly the first time. Bravo!

[srmjr]

Honestly, I haven't seen this good of online 3D training since the days of Jason Busby (GRHS) and Zack Parrish over at 3D Buzz back in the day. Well done! My only complaint is you don't have even more content! You're a top notch teacher! Thanks!

[RmaNYouTube]

I subscribed just for this, because it was the only control rig tutorial out there that made sense to a non-professional rigger like many of us.