How To Animate Characters In Unity 3D | Animation Layers Explained

Learn the fundamentals of animating characters with Unity's animation layers, and understand how & why it all works!

This beginner-friendly tutorial is a thorough break down of Animation Layers in Unity 3D and explains how each of the layer's properties work and are useful. By the end of the video, our character is able to walk and aim simultaneously!

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This is the seventh video in a series covering Unity's animation system! Be sure to check out the other videos in the series to continue learning!

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Intro: 0:00
What are layers for?: 0:28
Project Setup Mixamo: 1:26
Import Characters to Unity: 2:26
Convert To Humanoid: 2:35
What Does Humanoid Do?: 2:59
Setup Scene And Character: 3:19
Setup Walk Animation: 3:46
Animator Grid: 3:57
First Animation Layer: 4:08
Add Layer animation: 4:29
Animation Layer Settings: 4:46
Layer Weight Explanation: 4:59
Avatar Mask Intro: 5:46
Avatar Mask Humanoid Settings: 6:00
Using Avatar Mask: 6:22
More Humanoid Settings: 6:41
Avatar Mask IK Example: 6:54
Avatar Mask Transform Settings: 7:30
Blending Settings: 8:02
Blending Override Explained: 8:08
Blending Additive First Explanation: 8:27
Blending Additive Example: 8:43
How Additive Layers Are Tricky: 9:54
How Additive System Works: 10:21
Additive Reference Pose Example: 10:42
Interactive Additive Example: 11:20
Two KeyFrame Crouch: 12:03
Sync Setting Explained: 12:17
Sync Practical Example: 12:44
Timing Setting Explained: 13:22
Timing Example: 13:40
Timing Re-described: 14:25
IK Pass Setting Explained: 14:46
IK Pass Example: 15:00
Outro: 15:25
Next Time:15:30

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[Noixelfer]

As always, the quality of the explanations is just the best. I can't even describe how perfect the pacing and the video demonstrations are, well done!

[Boujonzu]

Seriously dude, probably some of the best unity tutorials. The fact that you go over EVERYTHING makes this more like a lecture than a regular tutorial

[mixandjam]

Such a well explained video!! Thanks for it Nicky!

[XURlMA]

Throughout my entire career of learning from tutorials, this is the only channel that not only goes over what each setting does, but also how they can be useful, which in my opinion is just as important as understanding what something does, you just can't have one without the other. Hope it inspires others to do the same :).

Also, HUGE props, must take lots and lots of effort to make these vidoes, but it will help a whole lot of people immensely, and for that you earned my sub despite me never subscribing to anyone really :) It will definitely pay off for both you and others, keep it up man!

[NMana]

Can't thank you enough for the tutorials, man.
There aren't enough advanced, concise, and digestible animation tutorials for Unity, and you help fill in that gap.

[GymCritical]

I didn’t even bother with layers in my project and avoided them because I didn’t want to get into it too deep. You made it a lot easier to grasp. Those equations in the beginning were incredibly useful. Thank you.

This channel needs more visibility because it's a real gem on youtube!

[runehammergaming]

This tutorial series has been invaluable to me. Clear instructions with visual examples, concise and sticks to the point of the video instead of being an hour long hard to follow tutorial where the narrator just rambles. Prior to finding these videos my animation setup was unruly and very amateurish. Now the setup is clear and easy to read, professional, and most importantly, bug free. You are saving my game with this series. I'm not an animator, and while my art is good and my coding skills sharpen all the time, using Unity mechanim was a nightmare for me. Thank you for this series.

[Underarmour]

Man this type of explanation is top tier, you should honestly think about putting a paid course together. I'd pay for it.

[wulumgames]

Excellent video. I was looking for this content for a while.

[arthurgentz]

If i had the money, i'd fund and implore you to start an in-depth, AAA-level animation course. Very good work.

[moniques]

Just started watching these recently, and I gotta say - these videos are PHENOMENAL!! Thank you so much for all your hard work 💜

[lordkakabel]

Thank you! I was able to make my player walk with a torch when in the darkness super-easy with this method.

[AlekMat]

Searched true hundreds of videos on youtube to find this gold, totaly worth it good job !

[leonardojensen]

Easily one of the best unity channels out there

[halivudestevez]

Need to repeat viewing this several times. Vaste of essential information.

[gatesaims]

Thank you saved me a lot of time trying to browse videos for an actual working one

[HnD]

seriously, thanks to your videos i moved past the roadblock i have had for the past 8 years with [UNITY] and animations whenever i gave it a shot

[ragnar]

non ho mai visto tutorial così approfonditi...grazie mille amico!!!😎

[iksuddle]

Wow these videos are so helpful yet your channel is highly underrated!