Introduction to Unit 6

In this unit, you’ll learn how to create and control animations in a Unity project. Then you’ll apply those new skills and add animations to your own game.

Animation in games is vital for bringing characters, environments, and objects to life, and enhancing the overall visual appeal and immersion of a game.

In this tutorial, you’ll get a quick overview of what to expect from this unit about animation.

Complete the Animation project

To learn how to implement animation in Unity, you will first work through a new project step-by-step, learning all of the necessary skills along the way. You’ll learn to bring motion and the illusion of life to characters and environments by creating and configuring animations in the Unity Editor.

Add animations to your own game

After you’ve completed the UI project, you will have all the skills you need to implement animations in your game. At a minimum, you will add the following elements:

• Create an animated enemy character

By the end, your game should look something like this:

Now that you have a good understanding of what to expect from this unit, you’re ready to get started. Next, you’ll get started on the animation project to learn how to create and control your own animations in Unity.