A common requirement is to have characters move around a scene. There are different ways of achieving this with different degrees of complexity. As I write this post, I have not finalized my opinion on the best way, so this post is sharing some approaches rather than a final recommendation. In a game, it is … More Making Characters Move in Unity
In this post I summarize the Unity terminology related to Cinemachine timelines and cameras. Cinemachine is a package for Unity design to create cutscenes or create short movies with. This blog summarizes terminology related to Cinemachine timelines and cameras. Later blogs will describe how to use these tools to achieve various objectives. (See also https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/timeline.) … More Timelines and Cameras in Unity
3D models are created by external applications and then loaded into Unity as assets. Characters, furniture, buildings etc are all models. VRoid Studio can export files in VRM format that you can then import into Unity using the UniVRM package. This creates a prefab for the character. To then make models move, animations must be … More VRoid Studio Characters and Animation in Unity
There are a few foundational concepts that are worth understanding in Unity. These concepts are used in a variety of ways, as will be shown in later sections. Assets: There is a directory tree of “assets” in Unity. This is basically a directory tree of files on disk holding the contents of a project. When … More Unity Basic Terminology
In this post I give an overview of how to install VRoid Studio and Unity. Both products have installation instructions that I recommend you read though as details can change from time to time. My goal in this post is to give an overview. Let’s start with the easy one: VRoid Studio. Installing VRoid Installing … More Installing VRoid Studio and Unity
“I wonder how hard it would be to use VRoid Studio and Unity to create an animated movie?” I am starting this series of blog posts in my quest to answer this question. (Spoiler alert, it’s not as easy as I would like!!) [Psst! Did you subscribe to this blog because I have other posts … More Setting the scene: VRoid + Unity for animated cartoons
I have been creating a series of Live Streams on put into a playlist called “Project Wookie” on my Behind the Scenes channel on YouTube. These are a series of examples of addresses common situations with Adobe Character Animator when rigging puppets. Project Wookie uses a photo of a toy Wookie with Photoshop to edit … More Project Wookie – A Beginner YouTube Playlist
In this post I collecting notes related to experiments with MIDI control of Character Animator in case useful to anyone else. I am still working on this, learning how it all works. Expert opinions welcome! Please note I plan to come back and edit this page as I learn more. MIDI MIDI is a 30 … More MIDI and Adobe Character Animator
I have previously shared two videos on YouTube on some ideas for syncing animation with a music track in Adobe Character Animator. But there as a recent post in the forums where @SharonfromMD had completed her first music video and was asking for feedback on project organization before starting her next video. @mre8 shared how … More Music Videos in Character Animator (part 3)
After hitting some delays with volunteer voice actors, I decided to have a go at turning my animation into a comic. No voice actors required! I still want to finish the videos, but this blog is capturing some of my discoveries, as a newbie to comic artwork. First, there are numerous articles around on all … More Comics via Adobe Character Animator and Indesign
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