Epic Games just released their Game Animation Sample Project, a free animation database of over 500 AAA-quality animations, complete with a fully functional character and animation Blueprint for Unreal Engine 5.4.
You can learn more about the Game Animation Sample Project and download it to kickstart your projects from the link below:
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/game-animation-sample
The Game Animation Sample Project showcases dynamic, fully functional animation systems that are commonly needed in games. Built using best practices, it can be used for learning or to help you kickstart your own creations.
For those working on AAA projects, the sample is a sandbox: a starting point for pre-production, learning UE gameplay animation features, and understanding Motion Matching best practices.
For indie devs, the sample provides plug-and-play locomotion, as well as hundreds of game-ready animations compatible with all UE Mannequins that can be used for humanoid locomotion in your own projects. You’re free to use all these animations with or without their accompanying animation Blueprints and retarget them to your own characters.
