• Refer back to our brainstorming session for inspiration. Create a character in MakeHuman, ReadyPlayerMe, or any avatar generator that lives in that world and story.
  • Grab some animations from Mixamo and import them into Unreal. Why did you choose the animations you did? How do they fit the character you designed?
  • Create an animation in the Mocap Studio. What is your performance? How was it inspired by the world you already created? Don’t worry about retargeting. We’ll do that in an upcoming week.
  • Share some screenshots and video/gifs.

I decided to character create with Ready Player Me - I remember using the tool once during the pandemic to create my own avatar for VRChat so I was happy to go back to the same tool. I gave my fantastical monster-hunting, boyfriend cooking, magic making avatar pink hair and badass makeup and clothes.

To change the file format from glb to fbx, I imported and then exported the model in Blender.

From Mixamo, I downloaded two animations, one fighting sequence and one jogging sequence. I did make the jogging an in place animation since we aren’t doing and camera or player tracking at this point in time.

Somehow had no issues in Unreal. Still in slight shock from that lol.

Bringing in Character Animations.mov

Haven’t come in yet for MoCap - planning to be in the Wednesday (9/27) afternoon crew.