Using Unreal Engine for Linear Animation

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Unreal Engine is presented as a production-ready linear animation pipeline that records real-time performance into Sequencer using Take Recorder, Live Link body suits and Live Link Face iOS facial capture, or hand-keyed rigs via Control Rig. Examples include physics-driven ragdoll takes captured and layered as subscenes, duplicated to populate chaotic crowds, Alembic caches for complex deformations, and 4.25 tile rendering with bloom, motion blur and ray tracing for high‑res exports.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Unreal
2. 3:24Sequencer and Take Recorder
3. 6:07Machinima and Live Performance
4. 7:14Gameplay Capture Workflow
5. 9:31Editing Sequencer Tracks
6. 15:01Virtual Production Techniques
7. 16:08Recording Animation Data
8. 18:03Control Rig Keyframing
9. 22:22Live Link Character Control
10. 24:29Importing and Rendering

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