I have a number of assets from the Unity Asset Store some paid, some free. I hunt around in them for various models that I ...

For my hobbyist animation efforts I started with friends as voice actors. However, not having many friends… I mean, it is hard for my numerous ...

Back in 2021 there was a forum thread on video quality for the MP4 recorder. A few people reported getting poor quality MP4 files recorded, ...

Ambient occlusion is a lighting effect that increases shadows where two surfaces meet. In real life, there is less light bouncing around surfaces in corners ...

When you use a walk animation in a Unity Timeline using an Animation Track with Scene Offsets applied, you may come across a problem where ...

Here is my current implementation of captions in Unity, the writing you see at the bottom of the screen that shows what the character is ...

One effect I used in my first episode is rain to amplify the mood. This involved raindrops on glass windows, rain falling from the sky, ...

Unity recently published The complete overview of Unity toolsets and workflows for technical artists, an ebook summarizing many Unity technologies and concepts directly relevant to ...

I am creating a simple animated cartoon using Unity and the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP). One challenge that comes up is how to control ...

I am using Unity Sequences to create a cartoon series (slowly). It is probably more accurate to say I am learning the technology to create ...

Some students were asking about using Unity in the Unity Forums for creating a short animated film. Limited access to the computer at school, strict ...

In this post I describe how I am planning to get the exposure right when using the Unity Sequences package with the High Definition Render ...

I am (slowly!) working on creating an animated cartoon series using Unity 3D to animate the characters. I am upgrading the project from the older ...

Added Aug 20, 2022: Please note: This post can still be interesting, but if you want my final answer, check out this newer post. One ...

Anime style animation (and cartoons in general) normally use cel shading 3D computer animation shading, but made to look more flat. So before you start ...

The following is how I upgrade my 2021.2.0b5 projects to 2022.1.1f1 (my new baseline version). I am doing this as there have been a number ...

What are the normal stages in creating an 3D animated video? There are variations depending on whether you are doing a full length movie, a ...

I am in the process of upgrading my Unity project from the Built in Render Pipeline to the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP). HDRP does ...

The Unity Sequences package support has a number of features to make it easier to create movies, game cutscenes, or in my case short animated ...

One common problem with animating characters is when you instantly cut from one pose to another for characters with physics on hair or cloth. Physics ...

There was an Animation Rigging incompatibility with Sequences in Unity which has been fixed in version 1.2.0 of Animation Rigging. (It results in lots of ...

I subscribed to @MuRo\ CG's "PlayAnimaker" on Pixiv. He is doing some cool work with using VR headsets for Anime style output. You can use ...

I just came across Pixar's Universal Scene Description language. It’s a file format they use for all of their movies. It was interesting to see ...

I am have been working on a lightly animated comic (pages, with speech bubbles, but where there is a short video clip on each page ...

I have been exploring the new Sequences package beta for Unity for animation and one of the things it makes heavy use of was Prefab ...

(UPDATED Jun 28, 2021 to reflect my greater understanding.) Just a quick blog of my initial experiences and understanding of the new sequences support. I ...

I subscribe to MasterClass.com and a new lesson series from James Cameron was just released (yes \ the\ James Cameron) where one of the lessons ...

I am trying to create a comic series using 3D VRoid characters. So far it has been more learning than creating content. I have slowly ...

If you have watched Suvidriel's YouTube channel you will know you can have multiple textures for your VRoid character face, clothes, etc using tiling. This ...

This post includes an update on my plans to do expressions with VRoid characters for the purpose of creating short animated video clips using Unity ...

I am having a go at a 3D animated comic series. I am getting closer, getting the ground work out of the way (e.g. https://twitter.com/xordinary99/status/1344592878509572096?s=21). ...

Yesterday I wrote a blog post on a list of low end motion capture tools. Today I thought I would share my opinions and (limited) ...

VRoid gives you a lot of flexibility over many things of a character, but arm thickness is not one of them. You can control the ...

I wanted to have a character ride an electric scooter. I am not going to worry initially about mounting and dismounting, but I do want ...

Some expressions involve changing the face structure (a smile is created by a blend shape) while others involve changing the texture of the face (like ...

I recently shared a blog post on a Unity script I am experimenting with to add ARKit compatible expressions to VRoid characters. Of course the ...

I have described challenges in animating facial expressions in a previous post. Facial expressions are based on "blend shapes" to adjust the shape of the ...

I previously wrote a post on Changing Facial Expressions where I went through the basics of how to control facial expressions in Unity. Since then ...

I have been exploring iFacialMocap, an iOS app that uses the iPhone "ARKit" library to convert facial expressions into a series of movements. These can ...

One of the projects I plan to undertake is to create a cartoon series using "web stories", a format for browsing through visual content on ...

My goal is to create characters in VRoid Studio and then use them in an animated video created in Unity. A part of this challenge ...

Runevision developed a locomotion system for use with Unity. It deals with issues such as walking over sloped or uneven surfaces, making sure the feet ...

In this post I describe my current plans for animation of VRoid Studio characters in Unity (using animation clips). I might change my mind on ...

VRoid characters in Unity include "Blendshapes" (called "Shape Keys" in Blender) that morph the eyes, eyebrows, and mouth on the face to create different expressions. ...

The eyes are an important part of acting. They convey a lot of emotion, from their shape to what they are looking at. It is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 this post I give an overview of how to install VRoid Studio and Unity. Both products have installation instructions that I recommend you read ...

"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 ...