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Learn Now: The Art of Unity Animation & 3D Pixel Character Modeling
Learn how to use the Unity animation and create pixel characters
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Students What Will You Learn?
- Draw 3D Pixel Art Characters and Objects using Free Software
- Use 3D Objects in Unity 3D
- Make Amazing Games without Hiring Artists or Buying Assets
- Create Professional Animations Yourself
- Learn about Basic Script Use to Animate Characters, Objects, and Cameras
Curriculum
3hr 47min
Section 1: Introduction to Unity animation
32:46
Add character animations to spiderman superhero
03:10
Get Unity 3d and open starting project
02:15
Import the 3d spiderman character FBX file into Unity 3D
02:09
Section 2: 3D Pixel software basics
20:35
Animate the 3D superhero using the Animation Controller
03:59
Advanced 3d woman mesh - modeling the feet
04:48
Advanced 3d woman mesh - modeling the legs hips and thighs
07:03
Advanced 3d woman mesh - modeling the upper chest and back
04:45
Section 3: 3D Pixel character modeling
33:33
Advanced 3d woman mesh - modeling the head and neck
02:08
Advanced 3d woman mesh - modeling the hairstyle
03:50
Add animation packs to wonder woman
04:15
Export the wonder woman model and animation for Unity 3D
02:06
Importing Wonder Woman characters and anims in Unity 3D
03:28
Create a Wonder Woman prefab game object
06:12
Set up script and controllers for animation
06:11
Blending animations idle to walking
05:23
Section 4: First character rigging and animation
1:04:41
Program the walk animation in c sharp script
06:31
Create the strife left and right animations
09:53
Setup and program the jumping animation
05:48
Adding the custom backflip animation
08:34
Advance 3D pixel man model - initial setup
02:22
Increasing the character leg size
06:13
Advanced man 3d model - upper legs chest and shoulders
06:50
Advanced man 3d model - arms and hair
05:31
Advanced Iron Man - main colors
08:27
Adding details to ironman armor
04:32
Section 5: Integrate character with the game engine
49:21
Export the ironman model
00:50
Auto rig the Ironman 3d model
02:50
Export the character animation to use in Unity
03:49
Import Ironman character within Unity3D
04:06
Animating Ironman in Unity 3D using Mecanim
12:45
Setting up the jump animation
05:59
Setting up and programming the turning animation
06:41
Creating the ironman energy blast animation
06:46
Create the energy beam in Unity
05:35
Section 6: Advanced 3D pixel characters
26:13
Programming the energy beam firing animation
06:41
Triggering the energy beam animation
05:34
Working with animation events to trigger blast
04:21
Detect collision between a laser beam and wonder woman character
04:48
Trigger the death animation when hit by an energy beam
04:49
Description
Creating 3D pixel art characters doesn't take that much time and you don't need to be an accomplished artist to do it. This Unity animation tutorial makes this process fun and easy for you! You don't need to have any prior experience with pixel characters creation to succeed in this course. This tutorial is all about explaining animation for beginners.
From Zero to Hero
In his Unity animation tutorial, you'll learn to create the most popular superheroes like Spider-man, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, and Superman in pixel art character style from scratch. You'll shape them, color them, add shadows, create costumes, armor, and hairstyles.
However, superheroes aren't all that mighty if they can't do anything, right? Well, with the help of this tutorial, you'll also master the basic techniques of animation in Unity. For example, you'll be able to create an energy blast animation for your Iron Man character. You'll be able to see your characters truly come to life!
After that, this course will explain how to import your neat pixel characters to Unity. That's a crucial step when making games. It doesn't matter how cool your models are if you can't use them. Therefore, you must know how to utilize them. Worry not! Importing your art to Unity is not a tricky process, especially when someone is helping you.
Master Unity, MagicaVortex, and Mixamo Fundamentals in One Course
You'll learn to use not only Unity but also MagicaVortrex and Mixamo. These free programs have many nifty features that will make your life as a game developer easier. All of them have free versions and user-friendly interfaces, so they all are solid choices for a newbie!
This course is project-based. It means that you learn by doing. In this kind of way you instantly see the results of your work, therefore, it's far more rewarding. Also, it's much easier to remember something if you try it out instead of just listening or reading. That's how you gain employable practical skills. Also, after you finish this Unity animation course, you'll have a few fully realized art assets for your future projects.
Learn From the Best
Your instructor Yohann Taieb is a very well accomplished developer. He has built over 100 mobile apps and has been teaching Unity 3D, pixel art, and Photoshop for developers in a college for years. So, you can rest assured, you're learning animation for beginners from a true professional!
Unity is the most popular game engine in the world right now and it's one of the most convenient programs for independent developers. It allows you to create games for many different platforms. You can build desktop games for PC, MAC, Linux, mobile applications for iOS & Android, VR projects and many more! Also, Unity has a vast and active community, so it keeps on building new nifty features and improving older ones.
This Unity animation tutorial is focused on creating art assets and unitizing them. If you would like to learn more about Unity programming, it's asset store and making games using this engine from scratch, you can find video courses for all of these things on BitDegree!
Pixel Art is Here to Stay
Pixel art games are considered retro and yet they have a bright future and a pretty big fan following of their own. An obvious example would be Minecraft. Minecraft is one of the best-selling video games of all time with over 100 thousand copies sold worldwide. And it's a 3D pixel art game in the truest sense. Other honorable mentions in this list could be Terraria, Hotline Miami, and The Last Night. It's clear that many people adore pixel art aesthetics.
Even if you're not a fan, it's still beneficial to learn this craft since it allows you to understand game development better.
Learn to create and animate your characters in no time and get animations just like in professional games. Start learning Unity animation now!
Requirements
- Downloaded and Installed Unity Game Engine
- Downloaded and Installed MagicaVoxel
- Internet Connection
About the Instructor
Yohann Taieb
Apps/Games Developer
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Massive audience
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Yohann Taieb is an expert in mobile game programming, reskinning and app flipping. He has more than 10 years of experience working as an instructor in college, where he taught Apple Watch Development, iOS11, iPhone Development, Swift 3, Photoshop for programmers, Unity 3D, Pixel Art, and Android.
Yohann received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from FIU University.
Throughout his career, he’s made more than 100 mobile games and apps that you can find in the Apple App Store and the Android Store. Such expertise allows him to teach people how to make apps. Yohann Taieb has helped more than 50k students to publish their apps and reach the top spots.
On BitDegree, learning from this instructor, you can get a clear understanding of game development. Yohann Taieb will teach you how to use Unity from the ground up. Under his guidance, anyone will be able to learn how to make a game with ease. Choose the best Yohann Taieb courses and expand your knowledge in no time!
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24 October, 2018
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