The Easiest Way to Retarget Mixamo Animations in Unreal Engine 5

Hello guys, in this quick and simple tutorial we are going to retarget animations from Mixamo into Unreal Engine. It can be used in any Epic skeleton, or into any skeleton for any character that you like, in Unreal Engine 5.

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[storeboughtrocketgames]

For anybody using Unreal Engine 5.2. This tutorial is still relevant if you watch the first 5-6 minutes of Retarget Animations in Unreal Engine 5.2 (Tutorial). The parts that are different here, are that they've removed the skeletal mesh selection pop-up. It's now called Preview Mesh, which you can just set in the IKRig. Took me a good 35 minutes or so to figure that one out. Some of the menu does look different in the IKRetargeter in the Source and Target, but not enough to cause confusion. Hope that helps somebody. I was able to retarget the skeleton after just figuring out that llittle bit.

This tutorial is gold. Thanks so much!

[pascallaquerre]

⚠ @UE5.4.4 ⚠ You can now skip the whole IK rigging and go straight to your animation sequence asset "right-click/Retarget Animations" and it will offer to "Auto Generate Retargeter". It actually did a better job than the manual setup explained here, especially with the hands & spline motion.
Thanks anyway Gorka, your tutorial are sharp so keep it up!

[raisgamesnz]

For anyone who it isn't working, my version of UE5 I had to put LeftArm, RightArm, LeftLeg, RightLeg, instead of LArm, etc.

[kasperlarsson]

I found that matching the fingers really does a lot when retargeting to manny. Remove the metacarpals and the hand rotation looks much better.

I think it would have been great if you had addressed some of the more challenging parts of retargeting here. The right leg that looks like an ocean wave. The Hand rotation. Its super cool to see the simple parts but I would have loved to see the whole thing :)

[HandsOnKnowledge]

Thank you Gorka I have recently switched from Unity to Unreal and your videos have really been helping me.

[herrapan]

easy and straight forward and you easily fixed all the problems I ran in to with broken animations within 15 minutes. Thank you!!! Been looking for this.

[seanmenzies]

Great video, boss. The t-pose misalignment was messing me up but this sorted me out. Many thanks!

[catkovsky]

After frustrating 10s of hours of search I found your video and you saved me, I love you man

[Bamboocha]

This was actually quite fun to do and not to hard to follow along. Good stuff!

[Will_Forge]

"We're so close to 2k subscribers!" I check your subs... 110k subscribers today just about 1 year later. 😆

[Ethan]

Hey, it's slightly different in UE 5.1, could you make one for 5.1 as well?

[Kto-to]

Please help me with the problem, if I open the animation (Running_Slide with Mixamo) and click "EnableRootMotion" then my character flies during the animation, I don't know what the problem might be. When I turn on "All Hierarchy" in the "Bones" tab, I see that several bones remain in place: IK_Hand_L, IK_Hand_gun, IK_foot_root, they twitch around center_of_mass. Please tell me what should I do with this? (I am writing through a translator)

[AliBounds]

I had some issues with one of my legs and arms being either what it seemed to be glued to one or was bent and folded up. I clicked on the those green circles on the cirlce character and chaned the source chain in the retargertor and it worked like a charm.

[wolktead]

Hey, thanks for tutorial but i have a problem at 11:41 my arms are like twisted. U know how i can resolve it ?

[joshstamand]

Using UE5.1 here, upon importing mixamo character I get the error:

The following bones are missing from the bind pose:

mixamorig:HeadTop_End
mixamorig:LeftHandThumb4
mixamorig:LeftHandIndex4
mixamorig:LeftHandMiddle4
mixamorig:LeftHandRing4
mixamorig:LeftHandPinky4
mixamorig:RightHandThumb4
mixamorig:RightHandIndex4
mixamorig:RightHandMiddle4
mixamorig:RightHandRing4
mixamorig:RightHandPinky4
mixamorig:LeftToe_End
mixamorig:RightToe_End

This can happen for bones that are not vert weighted. If they are not in the correct orientation after importing,
please set the "Use T0 as ref pose" option or add them to the bind pose and reimport the skeletal mesh.


Cannot seem to find any tutorial that allows me to import and retarget mixamo animations correctly :(

[Tahakhan-rgtp]

At 5:34 when i click ok they show me a message saying Add goal to new chain
Can u tell me what should i do Add goal or no goal.I am using 5.1

[marcogrob]

Gorka...Thank you.! I am working in UE 5.1 and COULD NOT find the Manny IK Rig....

[ahmedabdullah]

Thanks for the tutorial! I have a problem though - animation looks good in IK retargeter preview but after saving duplicate, i see a T-pose with moving head.. Chain mapping looks fine. Any suggestions?

[DimitryArsenev]

Mixiamo character main bone Hip, my character Genesis/Hip. Its fine retargeted, but if i change my skeleton, Genesis bone is freeze on zero and not rotate - this broke all animation.

[dangerousmindgames]

How do we do the fingers? Same way with each finger individually?