In this official course from Unity, you will learn Real-time Animated Storytelling, allowing you to create your own 3D animations with cutting-edge technology. During the course, you will develop pre-visualization skills, learn to create an environment and props, animate characters, film a story, and refine your Scene with lighting and effects. As an artist and storyteller, you will learn how to leverage one of the most powerful new technologies to bring your ideas to life in real-time. As you complete the creative challenges and develop your own project, you’ll be able to share your new skills in our gallery and in your portfolio. Whether you’re a student who wants to be at the forefront of the entertainment industry, or a professional looking to upskill, by the end of this course you will have developed in-demand animation skills to make you stand out from the crowd. The 3D assets for this course were generously provided by our partner, Synty Studios, and are not for commercial use. If you would like to use any of the 3D assets from this course in commercial projects, please purchase one of the asset packs from Synty Studios’ Asset Store page .

In this course, you'll explore the fundamentals of Unity’s 3D animation systems. You will: Review the core concepts for the animation systems in Unity Connect those core concepts to the functionality of the Unity Editor Apply your learning through creating and modifying simple animations Review key principles of scripting for animation By the end of this course, you'll be able to: Confidently use Unity's 3D animation systems to create basic in-game (or in-app) animations for your own projects Begin to create custom animation scripts, if you have relevant C# scripting experience for Unity. Who is this course for? This course is for intermediate and confident beginner users of Unity. It will help you develop your understanding of the animation systems in Unity, but will be of limited use to learners who want to create cinematic animations for media experiences or game cutscenes. To get the most out of the course, you’ll need basic coding experience in Unity. This will help inform your understanding of the complexity of different animations scripting scenarios.

In this session, learn how Unity Muse, Unity’s generative AI, helps make creating in the Unity Editor faster, less complex, and more flexible.

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.

The Houdini Engine for Unity plug-in gives artists and studios the ability to widely deploy procedural assets created in Houdini to the Unity real-time 3D platform for use in game and XR development, virtual production and design visualizations. Watch the recordings of the live sessions held November 8 and 10, 2021, to explore using Houdini + Unity for your procedural asset generation. In this series you will: Learn to take advantage of Houdini Engine for Unity to build a procedural asset pipeline. Learn how to: Install the Houdini plug-in Make use of procedural assets in Unity Create your own procedural assets Build a level using procedural assets from Houdini Learn about Vertex Animation Textures

In the Particle System, you can use the Texture Sheet Animation module to select images for the Particle System to use in an animated effect. In this workflow, we’ll set up a Texture Sheet animation to randomly spawn different star images on the particles in a single emitter.

If you went above and beyond in the Fundamentals of 3D Animation in Unity live session or just by working on this project on your own, please submit pictures of video of your project so that we can see what you created!

The Animation Rigging package enables users to set up procedural motion on animated skeletons at runtime. One of the predefined animation constraints is called Damped transform , this constraint allows damping the position and rotation transform values from a source GameObject to a constrained GameObject. In this tutorial, we will look into how to set up that within the Prototype Series - Procedural Boss project!

The Unity Timeline Editor is a built-in tool where you create and edit cinematic content, gameplay sequences, audio sequences, and complex particle effects. In this tutorial, you'll see the various features of Timeline.

Activation Tracks are special tracks in the Timeline Editor that contain animation within a clip. You can use them to play an animation — for example, an explosion — at a specified position. In this tutorial, you'll add an Activation Track to your animation.