Character Creator 5 Creation Pipeline with Unreal Engine
Discover the power of Character Creator 5 while I create a Custom Vampire. An industry-leading 3D character maker perfect for game character design and realistic animations. Ideal for professionals and hobbyists.
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I take you through the entire character creation pipeline — from sculpting a stylized vampire in ZBrush, customizing and refining it in Character Creator 5, grooming realistic hair in Maya XGen, and assembling everything in Unreal Engine 5.7.
You’ll see how I:
Sculpted proportions and facial details in ZBrush
Used CC5’s HD morphs and mesh export pipeline
Groomed hair using XGen and imported it via Alembic
Set up a custom Metahuman control rig in UE5
Applied facial animation using MetaHuman performance
Fixed skinning, mesh clipping, and eye-tracking issues
Built the final scene with fire FX, lighting, and cinematic mood
This vampire isn’t a Metahuman — it’s custom-built from scratch and fully optimized for real-time performance in Unreal.
🧛♂️ If you're working on digital humans, stylized characters, or UE5 animation pipelines, this workflow might save you hours.
Auto Setup for Unreal Engine: https://www.reallusion.com/auto-setup...
⏱ Table of contents ⏱
00:00 Introduction
01:11 Character Creator 5 avatar Introduction
03:27 From CC5 to Zbrush with GoZ
04:04 Sculpting the vampire in Zbrush
05:14 Blocking out the Hair in Zbrush
06:09 Zbrush sculpt pass
07:44 Sending your sculpt to Character Creator 5
08:54 Body presets in CC5
10:18 Dressing the character with CC5 clothing packs
11:54 Refining Clothes in Zbrush
13:00 Final detail sculpt in Zbrush
14:40 Final Export from Zbrush to CC5
15:17 Fixing Overlapping in CC5
16:09 CC5 skining tools
16:50 Export from CC5 to Unreal Engine
18:00 Hair grooming in Xgen Maya
18:14 Installing CC5 Unreal Engine Plugin
19:04 Importing CC5 character in Unreal Engine
20:18 Adding grooms to the character in UE
22:23 UE Control RIg and LookDev
23:59 UE scene setup
24:59 Unreal Engine Edit Mesh Tools
26:20 Texturing the coat in Substance painter
26:59 Unreal Engine Metahuman Performance audio to animation
27:52 Unreal Engine animation and sequencer
29:17 Final conclusion
FREE DOWNLOADS:
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🥝 My Alpha lizard Brushes: https://artheroes.mrnunez.com/product...
🏋🏻♀️ My Work - https://www.artstation.com/mrnunez
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