The Beginner’s Guide to Animation in Unity (v5 to v2020+)

Your ultimate guide to Unity's Mecanim covering keyframes, curves, inverse kinematics, strafe sets, blending and more.

Created by: Penny de Byl
International Award Winning Professor & Best Selling Author

Created by: Penny Holistic3D
Academic, Author & Game Development Enthusiast

What Will I Learn?

• create animations from scratch using the Unity Mecanim system and place them onto game objects.
• import third party animated assets into Unity and set up animation controllers.
• write C# code to dynamically control animations through user interaction.
• explore the use of inverse kinematics in humanoid rigs.
• create complex animation sequences and blends dynamically controlled by the user at runtime.

Requirements

• Download the free version of the Unity Game Engine.
• You do not need to be able to model or animate in an external package - all resources are provided.

Target audience

• This course is for those interested in a thorough understanding of the Unity Mecanim system. It is suitable for beginner game developers and animators, as well as well seasoned animators wanting to import their work into games.
• This course is not for those wanting to learn to program in Unity.