AI → Maya → Unreal: Full Character Pipeline | Rigging, Skinning, Retargeting & Animation Blueprint

By: Jay Shah - 3D Animator

🔔 About this video:
This demo shows a complete pipeline from AI character generation to a playable, configured character inside Unreal Engine. I cover everything end-to-end:
• AI model generation (brief overview)
• Import & cleanup in Maya
• Rigging with Advance Skeleton
• Skin binding & weight painting fixes
• Import Mixamo animations into Unreal Engine
• Retargeting Mixamo animations
• Animation Blueprint, Blendspace, State Machine
• Input mapping / keyboard setup, walk & run speeds
• Final in-engine demo (third-person)

🛠 Tools used:
• AI Character Design : imagine art
• AI model generator : HYPER 3D
• Maya (3D software)
• Advance Skeleton (Rigging tool)
• Mixamo - (Online animation library)
• Unreal Engine: (Game Engine)
• Blender (for Video Editing)

📌 Useful timecodes:
0:00 — Intro & Summary
0:09 — AI Character deisgn
0:12 — AI model generation overview
0:15 — Import & cleanup Model in Maya
0:18 — Rigging with Advance Skeleton
0:24 — Skin binding & weight painting
0:39 — Retargeting Mixamo animations
0:49 — Animation Blueprint
1:04 — Blendspace
1:17 — Adding variables & animation sequences
1:27 — Adding Components (Visual Scripting)
1:45 — Input Mapping (setting up tansition rules)
1:58 — Updating third person blueprint
2:03 — Assigning key for walk/Run speed
2:17 — Final demo & closing

💼 I’m available for freelance / full-time roles in game animation, rigging, and technical animation.
📩 Contact: jayshah23rd@gmail.com | LinkedIn:   / jay-shah-69b33767  

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TAGS: animation pipeline, unreal engine, maya rigging, mixamo retargeting, advance skeleton, game animation, technical animator, character rigging, anim blueprint

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