How to import animations to Unity?

Hello everyone, iam an artist. At the moment i draw some characters and have animations in Photoshop. I try to create animations from 0 in Unity, but its veeery hard for me as iam newbie there. Is there any ability to import 2d animations to Unity and use them?

As i dont want to create animations in native unity tools

I guess it depends on what you mean “from scratch”. You can import the sprites in a sprite sheet and then easily create your animation. If you have a regular animation that isnt separated out into a sprite sheet, I am not sure how you can do it without breaking it out into a spritesheet. There may be an Asset from the store but I havent heard of anything.

Hey @OkeyNik yes we can! :slight_smile:

Like @Cornysam mentioned, we have the option to import a Sprite Sheet into Unity and then slice it into individual Sprites in the Sprite Editor before creating the animation.

Or if you happen to have individual Sprites also already created outside of Unity, you could simply import them into Unity and drag them into the Hierarchy panel or the Scene view. By doing so, you will be prompted to create a new animation clip. And once done, a new Animator Controller and a new state will be auto set-up and linked up for you.

Just remember to update your Pixels Per Unit (PPU) and the pivots of your Sprites in the Texture Importer Inspector accordingly.

You might want to take a look at this tutorial