In this lesson, you will learn how to configure the transitions between different 2D animations for the player GameObject (eg. idle, walk, jump) in Unity using the Animator. In the next lesson, we will look at how to control when these animations play with C# code.

These are the three steps involved in creating player animations:

1. Create each of the player animations (previous lesson)

2. Configure the animations in the Animator (this lesson)

3. Control when the animations play with C# code (next lesson)

This lesson, we will focus on using the Animator in Unity. The Animator allows you to specify which animation plays first (default state) and when and how the game should transition between the different animations (eg. transitioning from the idle animation to the walk or jump animations). This is achieved by drawing paths between each animation in the Animator and then specifying how these transitions between animations occur, as shown below.