This document outlines a presentation on bringing 2D characters to life with sprite rigging workflows in Unity. It discusses different animation techniques like frame-by-frame and skeletal animation. It then covers the workflow for importing, rigging, and animating a 2D character using Unity's tools, including building a skeleton, creating a sprite mesh, painting bone weights, using inverse kinematics, and sprite swapping. The goal is to understand pros and cons of animation techniques and Unity's 2D animation and rigging packages.

2. Bringing 2D Characters to
Life with Sprite Rigging
Workflows in Unity
Arturo Nereu
@ArturoNereu
arturo@unity3d.com

3. 2D GAME REEL GOES HERE

4. Goals
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— Understand pros and cons of different animation techniques.
— Learn the workflow for importing, rigging and animating a 2D
character using Unity’s tools.
— Understand how the 2D Animation and Rigging packages fits
into a game development workflow.

5. Agenda
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— Different animation types.
— Importing Assets.
— Building a skeleton.
— Creating a Sprite Mesh.
— Painting bone weights.
— The rig in our scene.
— Inverse Kinematics.
— Animate it!
— Sprite Swap

6. Frame by Frame
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Cuphead

7. Skeletal Animation
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Flipping Death

8. Which technique to use?
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15. Workflow
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Create a Skeleton
Create a Mesh
Link Bones and Vertices

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23. Before you go!
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— The package will be verified in 2019.3 via the package
manager.
— Come to the forums to get your questions answered
https://forum.unity.com/threads/2d-animation-preview-
packages.521778/
— Post your animations on Twitter: #madewithUnity
— Come to the 2D kiosk to talk more about 2D stuff!

24. Want to learn more?
Project:
Game Character Rigging
Fundamentals
Tutorial:
Game Character Animation
in Unity and Maya
Subscribe now for a 3-month free trial at unity.com/learn-
premium with code: UNITECPH19
Tutorial:
Intro to Working with
Control Rigs

25. Thank you!
Arturo Nereu
@ArturoNereu
arturo@unity3d.com