Featured resource
2025 Tech Upskilling Playbook
Tech Upskilling Playbook

Build future-ready tech teams and hit key business milestones with seven proven plays from industry leaders.

Check it out
  • Course
    • Libraries: If you want this course, consider one of these libraries.
    • Core Tech

Creating a 2D Animated Character for Unity

In this Unity tutorial, we'll learn how to prepare and make an animated 2D character using a bone hierarchy. Software required: Unity 5, Spriter, Photoshop CC 2015.

Shane Whelan - Pluralsight course - Creating a 2D Animated Character for Unity
Shane Whelan
What you'll learn

In this Unity tutorial, we'll learn how to prepare and make an animated 2D character using a bone hierarchy. We'll pay particular attention to issues such as scaling with respect to 2D physics, inverse kinematics in 2D, Z-orders and Unity's Animator component. We'll also write and assign character control scripts within Unity. By the end of this Unity training, you'll have learned animation techniques that you can start incorporating into your own game projects. Software required: Unity 5, Spriter, Photoshop CC 2015.

Table of contents

About the author
Shane Whelan - Pluralsight course - Creating a 2D Animated Character for Unity
Shane Whelan

Shane Whelan is a Game Design tutor at Ballyfermot College in Dublin, currently teaching in the Game Design and Animation degree program.

Get access now

Sign up to get immediate access to this course plus thousands more you can watch anytime, anywhere.

Get started with Pluralsight