Building Cartoony Facial Rigs with Control Rig in Unreal Engine | Unreal Fest Chicago 2026

Watch this session recorded at Unreal Fest Chicago 2026 to discover how to elevate the way your characters convey emotion in real time.

You’ll learn how to build richly expressive character rigs in Unreal Engine using the latest shape authoring tools and deformers. This session explores how to design clean controls, sculpt nuanced emotional motion, and blend bone-based systems with blend shapes. Press play to see practical techniques for achieving stylized expression that performs in both cinematic and gameplay contexts.

Find out about using Unreal Engine for animation here: unrealengine.com/uses/animation

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