models and animation where to start?

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Hi guys!

New to Unity and have a “played around” using the First Person Controller and importing som basic models (house, beds and so on). But i´m absolutelly new to character models and animations. All i know is that you can import models using DAZ or Poser? and then controll them and have them play animations that you made in DAZ and Poser. I have played around in Poser earlier but have never made animations.

I wan´t to play around and learn how to controll character models in Unity. Maybe i should start using a finished model with animations so i can learn the basics before i try to do something myself?

But i need someone to point me to the right direction. Some tips on videos or something i can read so i can understand character models and how they work and how you controll them in Unity. I´m not trying to learn everything there is to know about the subject. Just the basics so i can have some understanding and so i can work with them in Unity.

Can someone in this great community point me to the right direction?

Thanx in advance, also. I´m impressed about this community. Seems very active and people some very eager to help out newbees like me!

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in order to animate characters in unity you will have to rig them in another program i have only used blender but their are some great tutorials by jhonny blender (look up on youtube) that will teach everything from animating to creating models. i would say most character animation is not done inside unity as its pretty basic, i have attempted animating a character from unity and it did not work out very well due to not having the abilities of using rigs in the same way.

however unity’s next release will have a new animation system which should make all this possible, but check the tutorials even though they are for a different program most of what he says can probably be used in other applications

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Your best bet for character animations is to wait until unity’s next released update which will allow more better options to use animation :smiley:

If you are looking for a good character creation and animator for the time being then you should check out this free software called Blender!

Hope this Helped =D