If you are an automotive artist, you probably know that animating cars using chaos vehicles or other physics-based vehicle systems and recording your driving using the take recorder is not the best thing that has ever happened to you
Let's be honest, we all are obsessed with drifting, but making perfect turns with these systems is almost impossible even if you record your driving in slow motion, and on top of that, when youāre done recording, thatās it! Even minor edits are off the table and you need to record again but think about that almost successful turn you made in the previous take! Time to chop off the takes!
Animating in your DCC app is a whole other story that I donāt even get started with but you probably know that you wonāt get the real feeling of the environment when you do the animating there and also for any edits, you have to go back and forth from one app to another
Now that I have your attention, Cinematic Car Rig is a blueprint system designed exclusively for car animators
What You Will Get
You can use custom static meshes for the body, wheels, calipers, and steering wheel
The car starts over from the start, if the distance traveled is greater than the length of the path
Close the spline with a click and make a circuit track
Demo Content
A demo car and a demo skateboard mesh and rigs have been included in the pack to demonstrate the system's capabilities. A buggy with fully rigged suspensions is also available on the Discord Server for top contributors
I not only appreciate tremendous work done to create this rig, but also that Madgoat Studio is ALWAYS working on improvements, adding new features and gathering feedback from the users. It is the BEST car rigging solution for movies and films done in Unreal Engine. Period. This rig created the best partnership in the world for CGI automotive scene and I am really proud working with Madgoat Studios and getting to know him. Absolute unit of a rig and developer himself.
Make you life easier and spend your time creating rather than troubleshooting.
I Started my Unreal Journey for more than a year now doing car animation and visualisation. This tool right here saved me so much time for multiple reason:
Easy to understand (documentation and help from the discord server) Setup the car requires to follow easy steps but itās definitely worth it
So many options! you want to do an off road animation or a racetrack animation? you can! there is no obstacle to your creativity! implemented functions allow you to create natural and stunning animation
You want to add your own features like opening door etc? you can! There is absolutely no limit (UE own limit of course)
I would not be surprised that CCR is already a Must have in the Automotive Industry with all those options and possibilities
This product has been the cornerstone of all of my commercial automotive projects lately. CCR is the go-to solution for any vehicle rigging and animation tasks imaginable, sparing you hours of pain and setting you free to create. The rig handles uneven terrains and obstacles beautifully, simulates all the aspects of the car behavior, suspension, chassis/wheels vibration, one-slider drifting and much more! Also thereās plenty of clever options for attaching the camera, which is great for dynamic videos with tricky shots.
Exporting meshes for an external software (for smoke simulations etc.) is a little fiddly, but itās a tiny price for the rich functionality the rig gives you.
The developer is a seasoned professional who understands the needs of animators VERY well and reacts to requests lightning fast.
I couldnāt recommend this product enough! Go grab it right now and thank me later
I canāt praise this rig enough ā not just because of the incredible work that went into it, but also because the team behind it, Madgoat Studio, consistently pushes the bar higher. Theyāre always refining, adding new features, and actually listening to the community. Hands down, this is the ultimate car rigging solution for Unreal Engine. No competition. Itās been a game-changer for my automotive CGI work.
Iāve been using the Cinematic Car Rig for a while now and its a life saver when it comes to rigging vehicles in UE. I used to spend days/weeks riggging and painstakingly animating carsā¦ Thankfully thats no longer the case with CCR. Its such a user friendly tool that can produce the most simple to complex animations thats required. The team at Madgoat Studio have certainly made my life easier and ultimately resulted in me producing higher quality automotive scenes. Nothing else comes close to this!
If you work with anything even remotely related to automotive thereās really no way around CCR. This plugin is by FAR the most powerful, incredibly intuitive and refreshingly stable solution for vehicle rigging inside Unreal Engine. 1 year on the clock of working with this gem and still impressed by the quality and frequency of constant updates by the dev. Speaking of, the dev is one of the nicest and most helpful dudes ever. Thank you so much for creating this piece of coding magic! <3
Madgoat Studio has done an incredible job with this rig, and whatās even more impressive is their continuous effort to improve it, add new features, and actively listen to the community. If youāre into 3D automotive rendering in Unreal Engine, thereās simply no better choiceāthis rig takes the entire workflow to a whole new level. It streamlines the process, saves time, and unlocks possibilities that would otherwise be extremely difficult to achieve. Working with Madgoat Studios is a true privilege, and their dedication to development and community support is absolutely unmatched. This isnāt just a great productāitās a game-changer.
Iāve been diving into this plugin recently, and while I initially struggled to find detailed tutorials, I realized many of the roadblocks I encountered were due to my own beginner mistakes. For example, I discovered that in Blender, all parts needed to be joined into a single mesh before proper rigging could be done, simple oversights, but all part of the learning curve.
That said, let me tell you, the community support and the creations shared in the Discord absolutely blew me away. Once I wrap my head around everything, I can definitely see myself creating some solid content with this. MadGoat Studios really knocked it out of the park with this plugin.
It does take some time to get used to, especially if youāre new to the workflow like me, but for those who are already comfortable in Unreal, youāll be cooking up something amazing in no time. Donāt let my learning curve discourage you, give it a try for yourself!
