Ragdolls are variants of animated objects whose bones are completely taken over by the force of physics. They’re most often used when a character is defeated, like in an action game when a player’s health depletes, or when you want a character’s movement to appear to be driven by physical forces. In this tutorial, we’ll create a Ragdoll using Unity’s built-in Create Ragdoll window. We'll use the Eva character in our examples, but you can use any character you want.

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 development at Unity is a 2D Animation package that allows you to rig Sprites as one might rig a 3D model for animation. In this tutorial, you will go through the process of importing the 2D Animation package and rig a sprite ready to be animated. You will learn about all the features of the 2D Animation package, including Bones, Weights and Sprite Skins.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up animation clips in Unity after they have been imported from an external application, such as Maya, 3ds Max, or Blender, via an FBX file.

The Unity Recorder is an Editor-only tool that allows you to record images or video of your project. In this tutorial, you'll use the Unity Recorder to record video and images.

Once you’ve rigged your Sprite with Unity’s Skinning Editor, the process of animating it is identical to animating any other animateable property in Unity.

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.

Animators use control rigs to control assets used to create animations. In this workflow, you’ll learn guidelines and best practices for creating control rigs in Maya. These guidelines will help you create custom control rigs that can be cleanly exported as FBX files for use in Unity.

Creating rigs for compatibility with Unity is not without technical challenges. While the process is pretty straightforward, there are several edge cases that a rigger should be aware of.