The Cool and Confusing World of Additive Animation in Unreal Engine 5.4 (see link in description) @hawaiifilmschool

Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

In today's tutorial, we take a look at additive animations and explore why they are supposed important to understand. Essentially, they let you create new animations from old animations and get really creative without doing individual key-framed animations. Simply put, an additive animation subtracts one pose from another and applies the difference to a different animation. We also discuss the difference between mesh and local space.

See this video for additional information on Additive Animations: youtu.be/5auw9BAg2x4

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