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Unity Tree Editor and Shader Graphs
March 15, 2023I have a number of assets from the Unity Asset Store some paid, some free. I hunt around in them for various models that I ...
Emotional speech synthesis for animation is here!
March 2, 2023For my hobbyist animation efforts I started with friends as voice actors. However, not having many friends… I mean, it is hard for my numerous ...
Unity Recorder Output Format Wars
February 28, 2023Back in 2021 there was a forum thread on video quality for the MP4 recorder. A few people reported getting poor quality MP4 files recorded, ...
Selecting Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) HDRP volume settings in Unity
February 23, 2023Ambient occlusion is a lighting effect that increases shadows where two surfaces meet. In real life, there is less light bouncing around surfaces in corners ...
Precise positioning with walk animations in Unity
February 16, 2023When you use a walk animation in a Unity Timeline using an Animation Track with Scene Offsets applied, you may come across a problem where ...
Implementing Captions in Unity using UI Document
January 29, 2023Here is my current implementation of captions in Unity, the writing you see at the bottom of the screen that shows what the character is ...
Rain, raindrops, puddles, and water in Unity HDRP
October 24, 2022One effect I used in my first episode is rain to amplify the mood. This involved raindrops on glass windows, rain falling from the sky, ...
New Unity ebook on Workflows for Technical Artists
October 22, 2022Unity recently published The complete overview of Unity toolsets and workflows for technical artists, an ebook summarizing many Unity technologies and concepts directly relevant to ...
Lighting Tricks in Unity HDRP for Cinematic Effect
September 25, 2022I am creating a simple animated cartoon using Unity and the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP). One challenge that comes up is how to control ...
Splitting a Master Sequence between Scenes in Unity
September 11, 2022I am using Unity Sequences to create a cartoon series (slowly). It is probably more accurate to say I am learning the technology to create ...
An animated short film created in Unity by students!
September 5, 2022Some students were asking about using Unity in the Unity Forums for creating a short animated film. Limited access to the computer at school, strict ...
Unity HDRP Lighting, Exposure, and the Sequences Package
August 22, 2022In this post I describe how I am planning to get the exposure right when using the Unity Sequences package with the High Definition Render ...
HDRP Shader Graph and Wind Zones
August 20, 2022I am (slowly!) working on creating an animated cartoon series using Unity 3D to animate the characters. I am upgrading the project from the older ...
Wind in HDRP - my journey so far
August 14, 2022Added Aug 20, 2022: Please note: This post can still be interesting, but if you want my final answer, check out this newer post. One ...
To Cel Shade or Not Cel Shade - that is the question!
July 10, 2022Anime style animation (and cartoons in general) normally use cel shading 3D computer animation shading, but made to look more flat. So before you start ...
Unity Built in Render Pipeline to HDRP Upgrade Instructions
June 18, 2022The 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 ...
My Stages of Animation Production using VRoid Studio and Unity
June 10, 2022What are the normal stages in creating an 3D animated video? There are variations depending on whether you are doing a full length movie, a ...
HDRP Camera Depth of Field Effects (blur)
June 9, 2022I am in the process of upgrading my Unity project from the Built in Render Pipeline to the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP). HDRP does ...
Why I Stopped using Scene Activation in Unity
May 22, 2022The Unity Sequences package support has a number of features to make it easier to create movies, game cutscenes, or in my case short animated ...
Animation Hair and Cloth Physics Bounces
May 15, 2022One common problem with animating characters is when you instantly cut from one pose to another for characters with physics on hair or cloth. Physics ...
Unity Sequences and Animation Rigging Versions (April 2022 update)
April 23, 2022There 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 ...
BVH to Humanoid Animation Clips for Unity
December 5, 2021I 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 ...
Pixar's Universal Scene Description
August 15, 2021I 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 ...
Using Deepmotion.com to create custom walk cycles
July 6, 2021I am have been working on a lightly animated comic (pages, with speech bubbles, but where there is a short video clip on each page ...