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Animation in Unreal Engine: Build Your Own Animated World and Leave with an Epic Games Certification

Six weeks of live online learning with a Gold Badged Unreal Authorized Instructor. You'll animate your own characters in your own world and finish with a showreel piece and an Epic Games recognised certification.

 

Course begins May 11th

 

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 on demand video lessons with step-by-step instructions from a gold badged Unreal Authorized Instructor.

Certified Results

Earn an Epic Games recognised animation certification, reviewed by your instructor, backed by your own capstone animation project

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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. 

Who is this for? 

This course is for animators, artists, designers, motion designers and filmmakers who want to work with camera animation, character animation, cinematics, creating shorts in Unreal Engine. No prior Unreal experience needed.

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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