How To Make Animations For The Unreal Engine 5 Mannequin

hello in this video I'm going to go over how you can make custom animations for the Unreal Engine 5 mannequin so to get started we want to go over here and click this little director's icon and click add level sequence and just save this anywhere in your project once you've done this just open up your content drawer and find the Unreal Engine mannequin once you've done this drag one of the animations somewhere in your level once you've Dragged In Your animation simply go to your sequence and go track then go active to sequence and select the animation that you just imported you want to see all these little lines appear around your character using them we're going to basically animate our character so if I select this blue one here with select and rotate object selected if I just move this I can rotate my character's hand I can also move the position of this object by going to the select and translate objects and for example I can just move this here so basically using these tools we're going to animate our character what we're going to do is just go to frame 0 and then position your character to the animations that you want to make so I'm going to make an animation of my character waving their hand so I'm just gonna rotate this up a bit and back and I'll just rotate this like this so this is going to be the starting animation for my character once you've found it what you'll do is just click this little add new key and this will track the position of our character I'm just going to select this first one right click on it and go duplicate and just move this to frame 30. then at frame 15 I'm going to move my character's arm here and then click track this way I have a little looping animation on my character waving their hand so I want this animation to be 30 frames long so what I'm going to do is just drag this little red arrow and pick it stop at this 30 here now if I just click play I have this animation of my character waving their hand so the next thing we need to do is export this animation in order to do that we can just right click on the first animation and go big animation sequence then this will ask us where we want to save the animation I'm just going to save it in my content drawer but you can save it anywhere and just click export to animation this will export the animation now if I go to my content drawer and go to where I exported the animation it'll be here I can open it up and we can see it's the animation of my character waving as well as creating animations using the system we can also edit existing animations so I'll show you how to do that now I'm just going to delete this and then select my mannequin again and go track enter to sequence and select the idle and this time we want to delete this control rate and under animation we just want to select an animation that we're going to edit so I'm going to edit the moving animation of my character so I'm going to select this walkboard and I'm just going to drag it so it starts to frame zero and I'll just drag this red Little Dot so it ends where the animation ends and as you can see this is my character's walking animation if I want to edit it what we can do is right click on the animation we want to go back to control rig and select the CR Mana converted and click create as you can see it will add all these little control rates around it and I can go to for example frame 46 and let's say at frame 46 I wanted my characters head to rotate slightly here I could just do that and then I can click track and now at frame 46 my character's head is going to turn slightly towards the left so you can just do that if you want to edit existing animations slightly and if you want to export them it's same as how we did it before you just right click go big animation sequence and then select where you want to export the animation so that's how you can create and edit animations inside Android I hope you found this video helpful if you did like And subscribe and I'll see you guys next time bye [Music]

Channel: Unreal University

Views: 118,853

Keywords: how to make animations unreal engine 5, edit animations, animations unreal engine 5, animations unreal, ue5, edit animation unreal, how to edit animations in unreal engine, uisco, unreal engine 5 mannequin control rig, unreal engine 5 mannequin, unreal engine beginner tutorial, unreal engine beginner tutorial 2022, edit, control rig, animator, 2022

Id: tnZv7KQPai0

Length: 4min 12sec (252 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 29 2022