Unity Animation Essentials

About This Book

• Learn the latest features of Unity 5 to develop the most amazing animations for all types of games
• Refine your character animations by applying more advanced workflows and techniques with Mecanim
• A comprehensive book that explores core animation concepts and demonstrates their practical application in games

Who This Book Is For

This book is targeted at hobbyists, students, and game development professionals familiar with the Unity basics, looking to extend their skills and knowledge in the field of real-time game animation. You will need to be familiar with level design and basic scripting in C# and have a good knowledge of game development.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the latest features of Unity 5 such as state machines, meshes, and animation graphs
• Move, transform, and change objects over time using script files
• Use the animation editor and curve tools
• Import and configure externally created animations for use in Unity scenes
• See how to link animations to C# script
• Animate cameras and create a particle system
• Produce sophisticated sprite animations for both 2D and 3D games
• Apply more advanced workflows and techniques to refine character animations