Complete game animators pipeline from Blender to engine (Udemy.com)

BEWARE of buying this! By the time you realize who you're dealing with you might not be eligible for a refund, "because you've watched too much". This has to be one of the shittest courses I have ever taken (Udemy or others). The instructor is a complete and clueless idiot. He has no idea on how to operate Blender (the freaking guy is adding extra keyframes to an animation instead of using G-curves, for craps sake. His root motion implementation is just beyond retarded). He also does not give a damn about updating the course at all. You're having issues with pole targets? Well, that's because the so called "instructor" did not update the course based on student's common issues; you can sift through the Questions section and find a "solution" uploaded to Google Drive. Why not on some other platform that allows video playback? Maybe something like Udemy or I dunno. This clown will teach you 1001 bad practice that you'll have to spend years to eliminate. Avoid like the plague.

I have only made it through a few modules so far. Overall so far, it's a decent class, and I'm glad I got it. It seems to be pretty thorough so far, and I like the instructor's bio. It seems to be pretty thorough overall, and I am grateful that this class was made. That said, there were a few things I've found frustrating so far. 1) As a native English speaker, it is difficult to understand the instructor a lot of the time because his voice volume is too quiet and he kind of mumbles. I have to use subtitles for some of the lessons. 2) He constantly uses shortcut keys. This would be fine if he also showed us where to find things in the menus. I am having to figure out what he is actually doing with the shortcut keys to try to find them in the menus because the shortcut keys don't work for me a lot of the time, likely due to using a different version or possibly some of my settings being different. 3) He tells you what to do, but doesn't always tell you why you are doing it or what the purpose is for things that probably seem obvious to him, but not to me. This makes it difficult to comprehend what I am actually doing sometimes so that I can recreate the logic on other things.

I loved everything about this course for what it is. Instructor is a very knowledgeable dude on the subject matter, I wouldn't have pieced this all together properly without this course. That being said, I'm a pedantic programmer, and a word of warning for anyone wanting to learn this course, there are a LOT of techniques used during the unreal portion of this course that can NOT be used within a multiplayer setting (which is stated many times, that this is not a coding class). I only want to thank Hamish for being amazing at this, I learned so so so many new techniques, and you just brought me to the end of my animation journey through blender, I had worked a long time previous to this learning the entire process of building characters in blender, but without you, they would have never came to life!

This was a fantastic course! Prior to this I took one of those "complete game character in Blender" courses and this was the perfect follow up for learning how to rig and animate my character and even put them into the engine. I went from only being able to make non-animated objects to making an advanced custom skeleton, rigging my character and making a full walk/run/idle/jump animation set - which also taught me the basics of blender animation, it feels easy to make things like dances, emotes and attacks now. Like others have said, the audio can be quiet at times and there can be a small amount of confusion around blender and unreal if you are completely new. But for me this is overshadowed by the shear amount of information in this course and the fact that the instructor is still around answering questions. Chances are if you are missing something, there is already an answer in the Q&A section.

I personally think that it is too long a course for the fact that we are doing the animation of one character, sometimes it was a real pain and there is a discrepancy in some parts of the course. but I'm glad I finally finished it and have my own animations for my character and at the same time I've perfected my animation technique. I don't think there is a better course for Udemy, but this one could be better

I have to say that this course is not easy to follow, as it covers a lot of ground and it expects quite a knowledge of Blender and Unreal. If you are like me (no experience in Unreal), you can easily screw up the setting, but this is hardly the instructor's fault. Also have to add that when I got stuck Hamish was very prompt to answer my queries and unblock me, showing quite a lot of patience :P If you are looking to take your animations to the next level and don't mind dealing with the nitty gritty details of Unreal, this course is defo for you

Pros: -Good Summary of the workflow -You get what's advertised Cons: -Very slow and low energy presentation. I had to run it at 1.5x just so I don't get bored and fall asleep. Ended up just playing it on my second monitor and let it run in the background. -Poor sound quality. Please filter breathing, static, and other 'mouth' noises that isn't just your voice. -Lack of explanation, reference. You just follow along, don't expect any theory. -Gets messy, lack of standardized organization in some parts. I would give it 5 stars if it wasn't for the poor presentation.

If you want to learn how to animate in Blender for Unreal Engine but maybe you're worried about it being complicated or difficult this course is great, not only is it simplified into a step by step procedure with knowledge you can apply to any kind of animation you may want to create in the future, but Hamish is very responsive and usually replies to questions within an hour where he will do all that he can to help you solve whatever problem you are having while going through the course. Couldn't recommend it enough

Very good animation course, not just a walk/ run/jump tutorial but all the in-between anims as well, like sideways, backwards, diagonal etc. and the correct foot placement to ensure the feet do not cross over one another whilst blending between animations. What I found interesting was the way to use animation layers and the detailed instruction of exporting and setting up the anims in Unreal Engine. A very good course and one that I would recommend to anyone who wants to further develop their animation skills.

5 stars for this course are too few to rate! Why is that? Do I exaggerate and sound a little more enthusiastic than normal? Well let me explain. I am a hobbyist game developer. I have several courses and books on how to do things in blender but not one on how to make a rig compatible with game engines. How do artists make rigs and animations like the ones we download from Mixamo and other sources? Well this course got you covered. - We start with the rigging part where the tutor makes a rig and the control bones. I suggest you have a physical paper notebook to write down every step. There are many and its easy to lose your way. That's how rigging just goes. But the tutor explains very well. - The weight paint part is naturally more like a "feel" rather than steps and the tutor shows us some tricks on how to locate if any "rogue" vertice breaks your paint. Also explains some useful settings on the tools. - The animation part is huge and it speaks for itself in the promo video. I have done the idle part and I am very satisfied on how the tutor shows us how blender manages animations. I wanted to rate because it will take me several months to complete the course but I want people to read this review before I finish it. That's how much I am satisfied. For a game developer that looks to do his own animations for their models, this course is more than enough!