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Introduction to Animation in Unreal: Certified Live Learning

Want to grow your skills alongside the animation tools in Unreal Engine? Pre-sign up now for early access to our comprehensive course, with live sessions with a gold badged instructor.

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Live Sessions

Join a live call with your cohort and instructor to get feedback, answers, and help for on your work.

Expert Guidance

Our course provides step-by-step instructions from gold badged Unreal Authorized Instructor.

Certified Results

Come away from the course with a new animation for your showreel and a Epic Games Artist Collective Certification. 

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Personal Guidance

You’ll get personal guidance, creative challenges to match your skill level, and time between sessions to develop your own animation project — all leading up to a final animation for your reel. In addition to live sessions, video lessons are released weekly so you can learn on your own schedule. 

Course Content

  1. Week 1 - Introduction to Animation In Unreal

    3 lessons
    1. Sequencer in Unreal
    2. Key Frame Animation & Camera Animation Intro
    3. Live Workshop 1 - Introductions and setting intention

  2. Week 2 Introduction to Character Animation

    4 lessons
    1. Characters and Metahumans
    2. Control Rig
    3. Animation Sequences
    4. Live Workshop 2 - Q&A and Character review

  3. Week 3 - Using Motion Capture to Animate Characters

    2 lessons
    1. Motion Capture Performance and Retargeting
    2. Live Workshop 3 - Q&A Motion Capture, Project Review

  4. Week 4 - Creating a compelling narrative

    3 lessons
    1. Blending Animation & Additive Tracks
    2. Camera Animation
    3. Live Workshop 4 - Narrative Landscape and cohort discussion

  5. Week 5 - Building a World around your character

    3 lessons
    1. Importing assets from FAB
    2. Modelling Tools and Landscape creation
    3. Live Workshop 5 - Worldbuilding Live Demo and discussion

  6. Week 6 - Exporting your Animation and Rendering for realism

    4 lessons
    1. Movie Render Queque & Lumen Rendering
    2. Path Tracer Rendering
    3. Movie Render Graph for layers and mattes
    4. Live Workshop 6 - Render review and Q&A

  7. Assessment for Certification

    1 lesson
    1. Certification Assessment

Expert Instructor

Your instructor is a gold badged Unreal Authorized instructor, Graham Robinson, who has been trainer to the Art Director's Guild in the US for 3 years, and leads programs around the world. 

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