Do Animator required the knowledge of Programming language ?

Me and my friend love to play small games on iPad n all .
we would like to make living out of making iOS games.
I am gonna be the programmer I have a little knowledge of Objective C n now learning C# )
and he is a animator (He work on flash, after effect and premier .)
Now the problem is that he is not into programing language .
So just wanted to confirm , Do a animator need coding knowledge ?
as far as i learned via reading some articles, Unity have interface like flash like softwares so it should be with just timeline and keys not coding ???

Please do help me guys :frowning:
thank you :smile:

Please Help : (
Need to prepare our learning curve according to it : (

Hi - it is not necessary to program or be a programmer to use Unity and specifically the Animation system in Unity. Scripts can help control animations, but you can source those from the sample assets, asset store or even generate them from a node based scripter like uScript (or of course write them yourself!). An animator will however want to spend some time learning how to use Unity and understanding some of the art workflows and import requirements for Unity. Here are some of the best learning resources you can pass on:

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/14474 - free sample assets to help get started
Learn game development w/ Unity | Courses & tutorials in game design, VR, AR, & Real-time 3D | Unity Learn
Learn game development w/ Unity | Courses & tutorials in game design, VR, AR, & Real-time 3D | Unity Learn
http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/MecanimAnimationSystem.html
Unity - Manual: Model file formats
Unity - Manual: Importing assets

Good luck and have fun!

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Thank you so much :smile: .
this helped me massively .

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Thanks! :smile:

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Some fantastic resources listed there, have really helped me too - so thank you!

Also, to the OP, I read some interesting info on the subject here that may also help.

Good luck!