My movement gets blocked, when I activate the animator

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Hello guys, Iam pretty new to Unity and try to get the hang on by watching a lot of tutorials. At the moment Iam working on a 2D platformer. I use the script from “GamesfromJames” on Youtube. But now I stuck at one point.

Without any animations my character moves on the x and jumps on the y axis. When I activate the animator my character stucks in the air playing the idle-animation. When I activate the Apply Root Motion box he falls onto the ground and plays the idle animation. At no point at all I can move my character, when the animator is activated.

This is my script:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerControl : MonoBehaviour {

    public float moveSpeed;
    public float jumpForce;

    public bool grounded; 
    public LayerMask whatIsGround;

    private Collider2D myCollider;

    private Rigidbody2D myRigidBody;

   private Animator myAnimator;

    // Use this for initialization
    void Start() {
        myRigidBody = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();

        myCollider = GetComponent<Collider2D>();

         myAnimator = GetComponent<Animator>();
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update() {
        
       
        grounded = Physics2D.IsTouchingLayers(myCollider, whatIsGround); 

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space)) ;
        {
            if (grounded) 
            {
                myRigidBody.velocity = new Vector2(myRigidBody.velocity.x, jumpForce); 
            }
        }


        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D))
        {
            myRigidBody.velocity = new Vector2(moveSpeed, myRigidBody.velocity.y);
        }


       if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A))
        {
            myRigidBody.velocity = new Vector2(-moveSpeed, myRigidBody.velocity.y);
        }


        myAnimator.SetFloat("Speed", myRigidBody.velocity.y);
        myAnimator.SetBool("Grounded", grounded);
    }
}

The only differences I know I did from the youtube video “Unity Endless Runner Tutorial #3 - Animations & Following Camera” is the object sprite. I animated my game object inside of unity using a lot of layers (for arms, legs and so on).

Could you help me?
Big thanks in advance!

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Ive found the reason for my problem. For everyone in the near future with the same issues:
The problem is, that the animator collides with the script in the same place of the hierachy. Just place the animator as a child of boxscript/rigidbody and player controller and everthing’s fine.