Animated Character 2D in Unity (Part 2)

Animated Character 2D in Unity (Part 2)

When you are attempting to build a 2D platform game, one of the most important elements will help me a character movement. So in this post, I will show you how to make a simple animated character in Unity.

That character will have an idle animation, walking, and running animations, and jumping and falling down animations.

I will be using a few assets make by Kenney so buckle up!

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Animated Character 2D in Unity (Part 1)

When you are attempting to build a 2D platform game, one of the most important elements will help me a character movement. So in this post, I will show you how to make a simple animated character in Unity.

That character will have an idle animation, walking and running animations, and jumping and falling down animations.

I will be using a few assets make by Kenney so buckle up!

Continue reading “Animated Character 2D in Unity (Part 1)”

Coding animations in Unity

We all know that adding a few animations makes a game ten times better!
But what if you are a programmer and all you can do is to write code? You can animate from code!

Principles of Animation

One of the things that you need to understand before you begin to make animations is to start with 12 principles of animation. Those were introduced in the book: “The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation”.
This is a great place to start because it gives you some idea about how to make animations in general. At this point, there is a lot of videos that feature this subject and my favorite one is by AlanBeckerTutorials and I would highly recommend watching it first. ?

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