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

The Beginners Guide to Animation in Unity (v5 to v2020+), available at $99.99, has an average rating of 4.73, with 132 lectures, 1 quizzes, based on 1998 reviews, and has 15719 subscribers.

You will learn about 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. This course is ideal for individuals who are 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. or This course is not for those wanting to learn to program in Unity. It is particularly useful for 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. or This course is not for those wanting to learn to program in Unity.

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Summary

Title: The Beginners Guide to Animation in Unity (v5 to v2020+)

Price: $99.99

Average Rating: 4.73

Number of Lectures: 132

Number of Quizzes: 1

Number of Published Lectures: 64

Number of Curriculum Items: 133

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 64

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will 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.

Who Should Attend

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.

Target Audiences

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.

The Beginner’s Guide to Animation in Unity with Mecanim is for animators and Unity practitioners who want to bring their characters to life in a game environment and want to learn the ins and outs of the mecanim system. You don’t need to be able to model or animate in external packages as all models and animations are provided. All aspects of animation in Unity are covered from physics, key framing, curves, forward and inverse kinematics, animation state machines and working with third party assets. Students will be introduced to elementary code, in C#, that is essential for making dynamic animations and triggers to control character behaviour at run time. 

In this course, Penny teaches all the invaluable skills you will require to begin animating your own game characters in Unity using her internationally acclaimed teaching style and knowledge from over 25 years working with games and computer graphics.

Updated to cover Unity Versions 5 to 2020 the course now contains 5 hours of extra content with:

new challenges and projects

blending animations to create strafe sets

adjusting curves

designing a character and the placing of motion capture with free third-party tools

Learn how to animate and work with:

the mecanim timeline

curve and keyframe editors

animation events that trigger code

root motion

imported animations created in third party packages

animation state machines

Contents and Overview

The course begins with the very basics of the Unity interface and progresses to an in-depth examination of all the mecanim components (including the Animation, Animator, DopeSheet and Curve windows). The majority of lectures are follow-along, hands-on workshops in which the student will explore a variety of animation techniques from creating a simple bouncing ball, through to a complex animation for a wall climbing character. Animated models and starter projects are included for students who are not confident in creating their own. By the end of this course, the student will have thoroughly explored the functionality of the mecanim system, under the instruction of an internationally-recognised professor, and be well on their way to developing snippets of code to control all aspects of 3d game animation.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Welcome

Lecture 2: Join the H3D Student Community

Lecture 3: Contacting H3D

Lecture 4: FAQs

Lecture 5: Installation

Lecture 6: Unitys Windows

Lecture 7: 3D Navigation

Lecture 8: External Resources

Lecture 9: Fixing Model Issues

Lecture 10: Physics Bounce

Chapter 2: Press Play

Lecture 1: Why Animation Works

Lecture 2: The Principles of Animation

Lecture 3: Keyframes

Lecture 4: The Animation Window Part 1

Lecture 5: The Animation Window Part 2

Lecture 6: Curves

Lecture 7: Local and World Space

Lecture 8: Squash Challenge

Chapter 3: States and Transitions

Lecture 1: The Animator

Lecture 2: Triggering Animation States Part 1

Lecture 3: Triggering Animation States Part 2

Lecture 4: Trigger Challenge Part 1

Lecture 5: Trigger Challenge Part 2

Chapter 4: The Bare Bones

Lecture 1: Bones, Joints and Rigs

Lecture 2: Importing Animations from 3D Software

Lecture 3: Generic Animations

Lecture 4: Animation Cycles

Lecture 5: Generic Animations and Avatars

Lecture 6: Making a Humanoid

Lecture 7: Animating a Humanoid

Lecture 8: Animating and Rigging with Mixamo

Lecture 9: Importing Mixamo to Unity

Chapter 5: Runtime Control

Lecture 1: A Simple Character Controller

Lecture 2: Transitioning Between Walking and Idle Animations

Lecture 3: Walking In a Straight Line

Lecture 4: Jumping

Lecture 5: Simple Blending of Animation Transitions

Lecture 6: Humanoid Root Motion Challenge Part 1

Lecture 7: Humanoid Root Motion Challenge Part 2

Chapter 6: Triggering Animations

Lecture 1: Triggering Animations with Colliders

Lecture 2: Triggering Animations By Clicking Part 1

Lecture 3: Triggering Animations By Clicking Part 2

Lecture 4: Triggering Animations By Clicking Part 3

Lecture 5: Jumping and Climbing Part 1

Lecture 6: Editing Read Only Animations

Lecture 7: Jumping and Climbing Part 2

Lecture 8: Jumping and Climbing Part 3

Lecture 9: Jumping and Climbing Part 4

Lecture 10: Jumping and Climbing Part 5

Chapter 7: Blend Shapes

Lecture 1: Introducing Blendshapes

Lecture 2: Creating Blendshapes

Lecture 3: Blendshapes for Facial Animation

Lecture 4: Blend Tree Basics

Lecture 5: Strafe Sets Part 1

Lecture 6: Strafe Sets Part 2

Chapter 8: Inverse Kinematics

Lecture 1: Using Inverse Kinematics

Lecture 2: Making A Dynamic Animated Character

Lecture 3: Using IK to Pickup and Hold an Object

Chapter 9: Final Project

Lecture 1: Project Specifications

Lecture 2: Project Solution Part 1

Lecture 3: Project Solution Part 2

Lecture 4: Project Solution Part 3

Chapter 10: Final Words

Lecture 1: Final Words

Lecture 2: Where to now?

Instructors

Penny de Byl
International Award Winning Professor & Best Selling Author

Penny Holistic3D
Academic, Author & Game Development Enthusiast

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 18 votes

2 stars: 18 votes

3 stars: 122 votes

4 stars: 517 votes

5 stars: 1323 votes

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