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Creative Core: Animation

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Beginner
5 Hours
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Summary
Skills
The world around you is in constant motion. The same is true for digital worlds. A static environment tends to appear unfinished, or cold and unfeeling; animation is all about creating the illusion of life.
In this mission, you will learn how to create animations in the Unity editor and how to configure animations imported from an external program. You’ll apply these concepts to add animation to objects and characters in your scenes, and even control when the animation gets played.
By the end of this mission, you’ll be able to:
  • Describe the relationship between different animation components.
  • Create simple keyframed 3D animation sequences.
  • Describe key components of an animator controller.
  • Configure Animation Clips imported from digital content creation (DCC) software or the Asset Store for use in a project.
  • Configure a humanoid rig for use with the Humanoid Animation system.

About this learning experience

This project is a standalone learning experience which uses content developed for the Creative Core pathway. You’ll find everything you need to get started with animation in Unity, but you may also notice references to the guided learning journey for that pathway.
If you decide that you’d like to complete the whole Creative Core pathway, you can start at any time. You’ll receive credit for any tutorials that you have already completed when you do.
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Last updated: December 15, 2021
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Animation Challenge Extravaganza
The dancers and pulsing fruits anims are triggered by events on the pianist's anims. The singer and tightrope walker have separate key inputs to control states like idle/walk/prone/sing. The floating bananas are triggered to enable gravity on collision with the Clerk_Clark player only, and color change upon hit. The camera is able to start and stop on key input with it's own anim controller and script. Most of the work was done in C#, then Animation controllers, then the Animation clips. Animations were downloaded royalty-free from the Unity Asset store. It took many takes (57) to choreograph the shot, and more features were added along the way. Resources: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/animations/mc-sample-believable-3d-animations-by-mocap-central-291284
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Dance Party
Whole new dancing style!
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Dancing Fruit Party
Unity Play: https://play.unity.com/en/games/995a7b2f-52e8-47b5-b349-e72802b2d80a/dancing-fruit-party Animation Asset: Human Dance Animations FREE. Music by Jerome Chauvel from Pixabay.
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my simple animation
I want make a magic ritual but i shout use coding to do it
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Challenge Bring the scene to life
I added animation for one of the characters to walk back and forth. An animation that moves two of the fruits up and down when that character enters the ramp, and another animation that sets the scene to night when approaching the red character.
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Unity Creative Core Pathway – My Learning Journey :Animation.
In this video, I share what I’ve learned through Unity's Creative Core Pathway. I explored the basics of Unity’s animation system, including: Creating and using animation clips Setting up the Animator and state machines Using parameters to control transitions Switching between different animation states through scripting Importing models and animations from external sources This journey really helped me understand how to bring characters and objects to life in Unity. 🚀
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A Fruity Ritual
As night falls, a tribe perform a magical dance ritual to enlarge, levitate and rotate some fruit, led by their giant chief. Featuring 3 imported dance animations from Kevin Iglesias on the Unity Asset Store. I animated the fruits myself and added a day-night transition as well as an animation for the spotlight turning on.
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