Kippy's Escape - HoloLens 2

Highlights of the experience using the headset

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Some of the things I worked on:

Simple Bones to control the various body parts of the robot.
Most of the animations were done procedurally, controlling the bones in an animation Blueprint.
The project was done in Unreal Engine 4.25, before Control Rig features were implemented.

Walking, idle, and celebration animations.
Walking: blending between poses using a Blend Space asset.
Idle: Transform Bone nodes in the Animation Blueprint
Celebration: custom animation baked in Maya

Expressions Animations (with audio🔊)
- ABP anims
- eyes, stickers and chest screen materials
- glow fx between body parts

Kippy's eyes material.
The shapes are done with Sign Distance Fields and are animated using sign waves.
This allows a smooth transition animation from one expression to the other.

Kippy's chest screen material parameters

Stickers Materials used for some of Kippy's expressions

Cable technical interaction, physics, and gameplay with user's hands

Bridge and island activation in engine animations

Explosion interaction with rubble and floating slates.
Floating slates idle animation done in engine.
Animation direction and intensity caused by the explosion are based on the location and proximity of the bomb.

Hint FX activated when the user isn't doing anything.
Interactivity FXs, outline of the interactive meshes when looked at and scaling/outline animation when the hands are in the right position for the interaction

Islands initial placement lookdev and user interactions animations