How to Retarget Animations with Inverse Kinematics & Animation Rigging




Published: 29 Jul 2025

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: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/[email protected]/manual/index.html

🟠 Learn more about the Two Bone IK Constraint: https://youtu.be/k-qVa6tHOOw

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