By default, characters loaded into Unity using UniVRM do not blink. You can animate blinking yourself using animation clips, but UniVRM also provides a script to help. The script only kicks in when playing the game (it is not visible when editing and scrubbing through the timeline). The script is located in the UniVRM directory … More Making VRoid Characters Blink in Unity
This post provides a list of my blog posts related to VRoid Studio and Unity for creating animations (movies, short cartoons, etc). I will come back and add links to new posts here as they are available. Welcome Posts Setting the scene: VRoid + Unity for animated cartoons. My motivation for working on these blog posts. … More VRoid Studio and Unity Posts
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
This post is for intermediate Adobe Character Animator users. It goes into “behaviors” in greater depth than may be first clear from reading the user guide. The goal is not to fully describe behaviors, but rather help take the first step into adding your own behaviors to puppets rather than only using the defaults provided. … More Adobe Character Animator Behaviors
This is for some background filler for a future episode. I wanted to get a bit of nature in the background, so decided to have a go at Butterflies and Poppies. The video is an experiment using a few different Adobe Character Animator features. The flying butterfly uses the “Cycle layers” behavior for the flapping … More Butterflies and Poppies
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