Introducing Mixamo

For a lot of artists planning on using MetaHumans in Unreal, Mixamo could easily be all they need in terms of body animation. Mixamo is an online library of thousands of motion capture (mocap) files created over a number of years by motion capture performers. In addition to housing this extensive library of mocap files, Mixamo also has many premade characters. Mixamo allows you to upload your own characters, where it will run an automated process of applying a Mixamo Rig with skin weights. This automated process removes the need for a lot of tedious work that would normally be done in programs such as Maya or 3ds Max, which is beyond the scope of this book.

Many of the animations within Mixamo allow you to further refine the mocap animation and solve problems during the online session to avoid further editing in Unreal. As you already have experience using an online character creator such as the MHC, you will find Mixamo much less complicated to use and a very...