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Animating a Short Film in Maya and Unreal Engine

by Nathan Glemboski

Throughout these lessons, we'll learn how to make Unreal Engine work as a viable render engine for an animated short film we'll create in Maya.

What you'll learn

Throughout these lessons, we'll learn how to make Unreal Engine work as a viable render engine for an animated short film we'll create in Maya. Preparing animation and assets for use in a real-time engine takes a different workflow than one might be used to working with in a normal render engine like Mental Ray. It comes with it's own set of challenges and things to work around, but ultimately the ability to render in real-time makes any of these issues worth it. Unreal Engine can become an invaluable tool, particularly if you don't have access to a render farm, by letting you create fantastic visuals with relatively modest hardware.

About the author

At an early age Nathan Glemboski knew that he wanted to be an animator. Through his teen years he worked in Animation Master on various indie game projects until he attended Animation Mentor in 2007. After graduating in 2009 he moved to Tulsa, OK to work at Steelehouse Productions as a character animator. His passion for animation is only matched by his excitement for the budding VR industry and it’s potential for character animation.

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