Welcome to the first video in our Elevated Storytelling series, “Elevated Storytelling”. Over the course of the next 11 videos, we’ll take you through an entire animation production workflow in Unity.

In this episode, Nate and Marc will show you how to install the Unity Hub and Editor (2022.1), as well as explaining a little more about real-time tools. Already have Unity installed? Skip to Episode 3.

Learn more about the process and workflow of animating a character in Maya and Blender, and meet Nate’s Big Friendly Killbots.

Learn how to set up a brand-new project in Unity 2022.1.

Learn how to take your animation out of Maya, import it into Unity, and block out your scenes.

Nate demonstrates how he made the timeline for his animated short, “Big Friendly Killbots.” Discover Unity Sequences, see how to make creative choices on the fly, and learn more about layout shot structure and nesting.

See how you can create complex, beautiful camera shots in real-time, and experiment with some pretty cool camera animation using dollies, tracking, shake, and post-FX.

In this episode, Marc and Nate demonstrate how to bring in and sync audio for your animation. Nate will take you through what he typically does with audio in his workflow, but then Marc will show what you don’t do with audio in Unity.

Marc and Nate are joined by our first guest, Pierre Donzallaz, a senior manager for technical art at Unity and our resident High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) genius. Here, you will learn how to develop the look of your animation using HDRP.

Marc and Nate are joined by special guest Vlad-Andrei Lazer, senior software developer and leader of the Recorder team, who will take you through how to get your movie out to video.

You made it! We hope you enjoyed learning more about how to create your own animated movie within Unity over the past 10 videos. We’d love to see what you came up with, so tag us on your social channels with #animatewithUnity