unreal engine – Ville Westermark https://villewestermark.com game animator Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:20:30 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://villewestermark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ben-150x150.png unreal engine – Ville Westermark https://villewestermark.com 32 32 Centipede https://villewestermark.com/character-sketch/centipede/ Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:35:08 +0000 https://villewestermark.com/?p=227 A centipede procedurally animated using UE5’s control rig. Eyes and fangs are playing a regular looping key frame animation but the rest of it is all procedural.

I think characters of this sort that is very slithery and long or has tons of legs is a prime example of when a procedural solution probably is best to animate it for gameplay.

This character is really fun and responsive moving around with!

The very minimalistic ABP where a fang animation and a eye animation is looping, going through the control rig and outputting the final pose.
A small overview of my functions in the control rig to make the animation happen. First applying animation to the spine and then to the legs.

]]> Car https://villewestermark.com/uncategorized/car/ Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:40:52 +0000 https://villewestermark.com/?p=182 I made a cute little car for fun in Unreal.

]]> Hammer https://villewestermark.com/character-sketch/hammerman/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:35:57 +0000 https://villewestermark.com/?p=145 A small personal project of a platformer character. Had focus on making snappy gameplay with accompanying animation that has good feel.

Using the hammer both as a tool for traversal and combat.

]]> Horse & Knight https://villewestermark.com/prototype/horse-knight/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:36:48 +0000 https://villewestermark.com/?p=124 A solo game jam. You play as a horse, carrying knight. Smack off the other player’s knight!

Made some fast and silly procedural animation in unreal’s control rig that came with unreal 5.0. So this was my shot at making something super quick using that. Actually very fun game. Might do something inspired by this in the future.

]]> Giant https://villewestermark.com/prototype/giant/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:58:55 +0000 https://villewestermark.com/?p=102 It ain’t easy being a gentle giant. Walk through a city with as few casualties as possible.

Or go ham. Your choice.

This started with me trying out rigging and animating something easy all within Unreal to test it out. Turned it into a small game prototype.

It was fun! Could be fun to have as a mini game or small section in another game.

]]> A tall little wizard https://villewestermark.com/character-sketch/a-tall-little-wizard/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:50:41 +0000 https://villewestermark.com/?p=84

Had a idea of a very tall wizard. Did this one day.

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