Kiaran Ritchie
@kiaran_ritchie
Principal Animation Programmer at @EpicGames, working on @UnrealEngine. Retargeting / IK / Rigging specialist.
Everybody has wondered what it would look like if you could step into a painting and walk around inside it. For the first time ever, generative models are giving us a glimpse of that. Imagine walking around a watercolor forest in first person; with perfect temporal continuity in…
People dunking on me, "what's so hard about a 3d pixel art game?! LOLZ" Bro, we can't even rotate pixel art in 2d. Much less render it from any arbitrary perspective.
Look, I try not to say anything about game design because that's not my thing, but if there's one animation style that grinds my gears is the one that rotates pixelated sprites and rotates the pixels as well. 😠
Took a stab at the "first person pixel art fantasy game" concept thing. I really love this idea. Would be an enormous challenge to make it work in a real game engine. But fun to imagine!
Lots of interesting discussions right now about how to reproduce this style in a game engine. This might be a great candidate for an AI post process.
Checkpoint passed. The world expands.
All the latest and greatest rigging updates in UE 5.6 ! #animation #rigging #ue5 #controlrig #maya youtu.be/C07u7oMpdwc?si…
One of my Unreal Fest Orlando talks just went up. :) “State of Animation Authoring in Unreal” youtu.be/i-_ikewib7s?si…
New video up, talking about new features of Control Rig in Unreal Engine 5.6. Physics, Locomotor, and how to combine these with the FBIK node, and some interesting use-cases. youtu.be/6w55wodJeEc
Very cool procedural anim!
Toying with a fully procedurally animated archer dude. Practical, nah! But kinda fun to try to math together some semi natural looking movements :) #gamedev #GodotEngine
I'm always gonna repost the Locomotor 🥹
It's crazy how easy it is to set up mech movement with Unreal 5.6's new locomotion plugin
Name a more important book for a gamedev to have on their shelf. (you can't)
We used #ControlRig to drive the slope warp on #Ciri & #Kelpie for the #Witcher4 #ue5 tech demo. I was able to give the rig to CDPR and they put it on all the NPCs. Kelpie used @kiaran_ritchie’s FBIK node to help the horse rigging not be so complex. #animation #rigging
🤩Discover the NEW #ControlRig #Physics in @UnrealEngine 5.6! 🎯 Powerfull ⚡ Easy to set up 🔥 Advanced physics on any #character Enjoy and join me : youtu.be/w9oo0VF1wbw #UnrealAnimation #ControlRig #RealtimePhysics #Animation #EpicGames #Patrick