Ask Unreal Anything: Animation | July 13, 2022 at 11AM EDT

[Jeremiah3D (Jeremiah)]

@anonymous_user_bfc1835d

Is there any plans to make the whole process of animating more user friendly specially for artists who are coming from film/animation backgrounds. It’s a combination of several small things that makes it a bit frustrating to animate in UE. I’ll give you some examples:

• There should be a way to disable LMB to move the camera. There has been many times when I’m trying to select an object I accidently move the camera instead!
• Free form rotation(three axes at once) is a must. At the moment I can rotate one axis at the time which again makes it slow to move/rotate things around while animating.
• I have notice even grabbing the center of the translate gizmo can benefit from some improvements. I should not need to click three times in order to be able to move an object in two axes at once!
  -There should be a way to disable this “ease in ease out” in the camera while navigating the viewports; it doesn’t add anything to the whole experience. Just look at the way camera orbits around an object in other DCC packages, very linearly and it works

You might think these are some minor points, but believe me I have been animating for 20 years in animation and films, and I think it’s the collection of these small changes that would make the different when the animators debating whether to use UE for keyframe animation or not.

This is also important to us and something we have been focusing on recently now that the foundational functionality is in.

1. Agreed - this is common feedback we have heard and have plans to address
2. You can enable Arcball and Screen rotation in the Editor Preferences menu
3. Great feedback; we have plans to improve the gizmo visibility and interactions
4. Thanks for the suggestion!