🌱 Easy Spline Growth & Spline Animation in Unreal Engine | Motion Design Step-By-Step

Learn how to create a smooth vine growth / spline growth animation in Unreal Engine 5 using Motion Design tools.
Perfect for motion graphics, environment design, VFX, cinematics, and game dev!

In this full step-by-step tutorial, we cover:
✅ Enabling Motion Design
✅ Creating your spline path
✅ Spline Sweep animation
✅ Material creation (with parameters!)
✅ Material Instances
✅ Sequencer animation
✅ Creating static mesh
✅ Using Cloner + Effector
✅ Randomization & easing
…and lots of workflow tips along the way.

Whether you’re a beginner or improving your Unreal Engine motion design skills, this guide will help you animate vines, wires, ribbons, cables, growth FX, and more.

📚 Timestamps / Chapters

00:00 Intro
00:09 Launching Unreal & project setup
00:50 Enabling Motion Design plugin
00:56 Creating a new level
01:13 Choosing and placing a mesh
01:25 Drawing & adjusting your spline
01:51 Creating a shape & using Motion Design
02:05 Operator Stack → Spline Sweep
02:28 Adjusting progress offset & scale
02:40 Increasing steps
02:51 Selecting & importing materials
03:17 Applying materials to shapes
03:42 Creating a new material
03:53 Connecting textures
04:14 Adding Multiply node
04:31 Adding Custom Rotator
05:40 Converting parameters
05:52 Creating a material instance
06:01 Applying the material instance
06:32 Adding a Level Sequence
06:41 Animating the spline sweep
07:17 Creating a static mesh
07:38 Copying locations
07:51 Using Cloner + Mesh
08:05 Random scale variation
08:29 Adding animations to cloner
08:54 Adding Effector
09:07 Adjusting easing
09:14 Scale to zero + invert
09:48 Keyframing enable
10:34 Outro


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