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How I'm Finally Getting Beautiful Animations in Unity

Kyle Banks

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Sharing everything I've learned to improve for my next game after Farewell North!

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From better rigging in Blender using tools like Auto-Rig Pro and Rigify, to facial animations using FaceIt and ARKit shape keys, to full motion capture using Rokoko's full suite of mocap tooling, I'm taking a number of steps to set myself up for more successful animations in my next game.

0:00 I'm not a good animator
0:28 My big mistake on Farewell North
1:17 FK vs IK rigs
2:45 Complex cutscene troubles
3:20 Facial animation troubles
3:57 Goals for my next game
4:15 IK rigging with Auto-Rig Pro
4:34 FaceIt and ARKit
5:02 Motion capture with Rokoko
8:40 Hair and clothing physics
9:07 Retargeting Mixamo animations
9:45 The basics

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20 Comments

@kylebanks Creator 1 year ago Pinned

Thank you so much to Rokoko for sponsoring this video and helping me out! If you want to level up your character animation with affordable mocap tools, then use discount code rkk_kyle_banks to save 5% off any order.
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@jamesc2683 1 year ago (edited)

You can build an IK control rig on top of any FK rig if you're worried about breaking the previous! Simply export the deform bones only (with baked animations using constraints)

@soviut303 1 year ago

Worth noting, most character animation rigs allow for both FK and IK animation and the ability to blend limbs between them. While IK is good at "pinning" a limb to objects and surfaces, it has a problem with joint "popping", when the limb fully extends and the knee/elbow suddenly "pops" into alignment. This is why doing things like swinging arms in a walk cycle using IK is so difficult; you have to add extra keyframes to do micro-adjustments to keep the elbows from popping. FK is much easier to get smooth, convincing rotational movement. So don't limit your rigs to just IK or FK.

@tec4208 8 months ago

Very insightful video! Spot on with learning best practices instead of diving straight in, and you showed a ton of great tools developers can use themselves!

@johnoinhisofftime 7 months ago

I really appreciate this video, it's going to help me so much on my 3D adventure game. I just found Rokoko vision the other week and it's really cool! Awesome that you got a rig for free! The retargetting Mixamo assets part is really helpful too. Thank you!

@nerdchomp 1 year ago

It's definitely tempting to set up something quickly and move on to the more fun stuff, but building a solid foundation first is the most important thing you can do for your game. Great job with all the improvements!

@humadi2001 11 months ago

Man. Your experience is so valuable to us. Thanks Kyle.

@WhyKev 1 year ago

Okay this was really cool to see! Great devlog!!

@xinoHITO 1 year ago

wow thanks for this info. It's really great to see how to avoid pitfalls. And phew thanks honestly! you made me feel much better about using Rigify on my main character for my game!

@GameDesignerSiddhantMishra 1 year ago

Thanks Kyle that was a really valuable video to learn a ton from. Thanks
♥

@TheShelfman 1 year ago

Dudeee this is so cool! This must make your development process so much better. Very excited to see what you'll be using it for!

@pro_jinx_ct 11 months ago

Thanks for giving such valuable experience for free❤.

@Skeffles 1 year ago

I can't wait to see how the animations in your next game look now!

@sheriezhu 1 year ago

Can't wait for the animations in your next game! Desperately want a mocap suit for my collie~

@gaelthedev 1 year ago

Super useful! Thank you! :D

@JustDax11 1 year ago

5 grand well i guess ill still do manual animations xd

@CStarWest 4 months ago

I have a question about your mocap workflow. Do you find any 'gotchas" or pain point from rokoko to Unity? It's a worflow I've been considering. Anyway, thanks for sharing this vid! Very insightful!