How to Retarget Animations with Inverse Kinematics & Animation Rigging | Unity Tutorial @LlamAcademy
How to Retarget Animations with Inverse Kinematics & Animation Rigging | Unity Tutorial  @LlamAcademy
Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Learn how I used the Animation Rigging package to retarget my T-Rex animations to accurately eat humans off the ledge in my free and open source microgame: Dino Attack!
🚨 Around 06:35 when we're looking at the Maintain Offset: Position I say that it's "not maintaining the original position" I meant to say it is not maintaining the original ROTATION. Oops! Sorry! Caught it only after release.

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📚 Resources:
🟠 Animation Rigging Documentation: docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.animation.rigging@1.1/manual/index.html
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Chapters:
00:00 Topic Introduction
01:11 How Does Inverse Kinematics Work with Animations?
02:15 Animation Rigging: The Chain IK Constraint
06:57 A Special Thank you to polyperfect
07:30 Activate the Chain IK on Attack
09:52 Additional Important Considerations & How to Support
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