By Michael Ricks | in Online Courses
Unreal Engine 4 has become a leading resource in the creation of games, animations, television shows, and illustrations! With 39 lectures, this course will take the absolute beginner from knowing NOTHING about Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) to a workable understanding of scene setup, importing assets, sequencer, basic material setup, rendering, and so much more. If you have absolutely no knowledge of Unreal Engine 4 but would like to get up and running quickly and without delay, this is the course for you.
108 positive ratings from 610 students enrolled
"This is a great beginners course if you are looking to familiarize yourself with Unreal Engine." – Tim Fraser
Michael Ricks | Animator | VFX Artist | Independent Filmmaker
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By Michael Ricks | in Online Courses
This is a project-based course, and instructor Michael Ricks has designed it to be really, really fun! All the scene files you will need are included in the course. You will get the Exile Alien character along with 28 motion-capture animations that work with him. You’re going to love how easy it is - you just drag and drop your character in the scene and it’s ready to go! By the end of the course, you will have completed your own animation scene from beginning to end and have a good understanding of Unreal Engine's animation workflow.
283 positive ratings from 2,959 students enrolled
"Excellent overview of Cinematics, Camera work, and lighting." – Konrad Kruszewski
Michael Ricks | Animator | VFX Artist | Independent Filmmaker
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By Michael Ricks | in Online Courses
Learn facial animation and more with Unreal Engine 4 and DAZ Studio. Both of these outstanding animation programs are FREE and will allow you to create stunning and highly professional character animations. This course will go over the simple techniques that unlock the little known animation powers inside of Unreal Engine. By using the high-quality DAZ 3D characters, you will learn how to export any morph targets you'd like from DAZ Studio and then utilize them inside of Unreal Engine 4.
167 positive ratings from 1,801 students enrolled
"Excellent course nailing down the basics of Facial animation. Excellent step by step in creating basic facial movements and lip sync along with creating audio tracks and matching the two up." – Jim Fredrickson
Michael Ricks | Animator | VFX Artist | Independent Filmmaker
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By Michael Ricks | in Online Courses
FINALLY! The Holy Grail of animation (Lip Synch animation) can be done INSIDE of Unreal Engine 4 with the new plugin "Allright Rig 2.0" created by Alexander Shatalov. This course contains over 4 hours of video instruction along with a complete UE4 scene file, Allright Rig 1.3, Dweller creature character, and presets. No longer do you need to purchase expensive programs such as Maya and 3DS Max to animate your characters -- now you can achieve stunning quality with the powerful combination of DAZ Studio, Unreal Engine, and Allright Rig 2.0!
124 positive ratings from 1,341 students enrolled
"I'm relatively new to animation but this seemed like the perfect companion tool to getting into animating using the ARR plugin tool within UE4." – Kerem
Michael Ricks | Animator | VFX Artist | Independent Filmmaker
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By Michael Ricks | in Online Courses
In this course, you will learn the simple, easy steps to apply real-time cloth animation to your characters! Once a very difficult task, the folks at Epic Games have made this process a lot easier and actually fun to do, right inside of Unreal Engine 4! In this course, you will learn about physics assets and how to set it up on your character to create amazing animations that look like it took you days to hand animate! This is one of the hidden features of Unreal Engine 4 that few have figured out how to use. It's amazingly powerful — you're going to love it!
114 positive ratings from 1,335 students enrolled
"Straight to the point and everything required to know what I'm doing was adequately explained. Thank you a lot!" – Marco Lourenco
Michael Ricks | Animator | VFX Artist | Independent Filmmaker
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By Greg Wondra | in Online Courses
Like Fortnite? Master the tools used to build it! This introductory game course will guide you step-by-step through the construction of a simple shooting gallery game using Unreal Engine 4. With 94 lectures, you will be familiar with the essential tools in Unreal and do basic actions for game creation. No programming knowledge required!
266 positive ratings from 2,028 students enrolled
"As a UE beginner, this course has equipped me with a solid foundation for moving forward to learn more advance stuffs of the UE engine." – Charles Shum
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By Greg Wondra | in Online Courses
In this game design course, you'll learn how to use Unreal Engine 4's Landscape and Foliage Editing tools so that you can build open-world environments like seen in "Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild." Knowing how to use these tools is a critical skill for those aspiring to be Level Designers or Environment Artists!
"This course does a great job by explaining the functionality of Landscaping tools and allowing the student to explore their newfound knowledge." – Harrison Richlin
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By Greg Wondra | in Online Courses
Unreal Engine 4 is a premier free-to-download gaming engine that's used to build "Fortnite". In this game design course, you'll go through the step-by-step construction of a custom-made character skill system using Unreal. This course contains 47 lectures that cover player skills, animations, skeletal meshes, and more. With the knowledge gained in these video lessons, you'll be armed with the necessary skills to start building your own character skill system with no programming knowledge needed.
186 positive ratings from 2,606 students enrolled
"Incredible course i really enjoying it and learn a ton of stuffs and incredibles mechanics" – Juan Carlos Gomez
Greg Wondra | Video Game Design Instructor
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