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This project expands on the Unity Animation pathway by combining Animation Clips, Animator Controllers, State Machines, Parameters, and custom scripting into an interactive animation showcase. In addition to the tutorial's bouncing ball and default idle animations, I imported an anime idle animation pack from the Unity Asset Store and integrated multiple custom idle states onto a mock humanoid rig. I also created and implemented my own custom rig animation.

To demonstrate advanced Animator Controller functionality, I designed duplicate controllers for several fruit models, each supporting multiple animation states including Default Color, Correct Color, Bright Color, and a Bonus Automatic state. The automatic state utilizes Any State transitions to activate from any animation and automatically returns to the default state. Each animation state modifies material properties such as color, brightness, opacity, and emission, creating visually distinct lighting effects entirely through animation.

Additional features include a custom bouncing ball animation that travels across the scene with three successive bounces, as well as a trigger-controlled display area that dynamically brightens when the player enters and darkens when they exit. Every visual effect in the scene is driven through Unity's Animation and Animator Controller systems, demonstrating state transitions, reusable controllers, parameter-driven behavior, material animation, and custom rigged character animation.

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Challenge: Bring the scene to life

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