[2023] Ask Epic Anything: Animation & Cinematics | June 21st, 2023 at 10AM EST

The next Fortnite Create: Ask Epic Anything of 2023 is all about Animation & Cinematics in UEFN and will be hosted on our Epic Community Developer forums here.

Make sure to check out the awesome backgrounds and expertise of our special Epic developer guests featured below, and don’t forget to submit your question on our forums ahead of time if you aren’t able to make the event live.

See you there!

Chase Cooper | Senior Technical Product Manager

Chase has spent a good part of the last 20 years creating digital characters. He is currently the Product Owner for Rigging in Unreal. Upon joining Epic Games he spent a good amount of time creating characters for the first two chapters of Fortnite.

Greg Richardson | Product Specialist

For the last 3 years, Greg has been involved in designing and managing new tools (Sequencer, IK Retargeting, Control Rig) for animation authoring in UE5, including working on most Epic produced demos and games. Greg is the Product Owner for Sequencer and Full Body IK & Retargeting in UE, working on designing and supporting new cinematic/animation authoring workflows for all Unreal users.

Thomas Sarkanen | Lead Animation Programmer

Tom has been at Epic 10 years, shipping UE4 & 5 as well as working on most of the games and demos that Epic has produced in that time. Tom runs the UE Animation Runtime team, developing and supporting all the game and editor-facing animation features (animation blueprints, animation sequences etc.), as well as leading the effort to develop a new basis for animation systems in UE.