Little Bird premiers at Shortnite!

I’m happy to announce that Little Bird is premiering at Shortnite!

That’s a short film festival happening in Fortnite! As a venue, Fortnite has many advantages. If you go to Annecy, can you dress up like Batman and shoot people? Yes, but you’d probably get arrested. So that’s a point in Shortnite’s favor, I think.

And for anyone who couldn’t make it, here’s our discussion of Little Bird facial rigging and animating a zero-g character with an ephemeral rig!

I forgot to mention it on stream, but the Aliyah face geometry we examine was based on a sculpt by Carol Cornils. Go check out the short for the rest of the credits!

Next stream we’ll take a break from rigging and take a look at the other Little Bird—the real time multipass rendering and compositing plugin for Unreal we developed to create the short.