Ali Pournassari kicks off Volume 2 by gathering references and planning the full combat set before a single key is set. He looks at each animation's goal, how it serves the encounter as a whole, and he lays out a clear direction for everything he’ll build throughout this volume.

Duration: 4m 48s

In this second lesson, Ali breaks the ground slam into sections, focusing on establishing the attack's overall feel and direction. He works through the first part of the animation to get a clear sense of how it reads, and discusses how early decisions will directly inform where things progress in Attack: Part 2.

Duration: 57m 58s

In Part 2, Ali pushes the ground slam through breakdown and into a full polish pass, covering impact, follow-through, and the all-important recovery window. His goal is to take the attack as far as time allows, making sure every phase reads clearly to the player and lands at a solid, production-ready result by the end of the chapter.

Duration: 1h 8m 21s

This lesson focuses on building the pain reaction from raw mocap all the way through to a polished result. Ali covers what this animation communicates, including hit confirmation, a brief moment of vulnerability, and a return to threat. He also explains how to make it read clearly and convincingly at a gameplay distance in under a second.

Duration: 43m 51s

Ali begins the death animation by working through the kneel and the tipping point of the fall toward the ground. In this first part, he focuses on the staged collapse and how mass arrives in sequence, one body part at a time. “Fewer, bigger, slower” is the core discipline that Ali follows to make a death animation feel genuinely heavy, committed, and earned.

Duration: 56m 45s

Ali finishes the death animation in Part 2. This lesson focuses on the chest, arms, and head arriving at the ground, followed by the final settle and hold. He makes a full polish pass to make sure every beat reads as final rather than paused or interrupted. The creature's last moment is taken all the way to a complete, satisfying, and production-ready result.

Duration: 55m 27s

In this lesson, Ali takes all the animations from Volumes 1 and 2 to show them running live in Unity. The player moves around the boss while it tracks, turns, and attacks in real time. While this is not a Unity tutorial, it does offer a genuine look at how everything built comes together, feels responsive, and lands as a complete encounter inside an actual game environment.

Duration: 6m 24s

Ali closes his 2-part workshop series by looking back at everything created across both volumes, from the first idle to the final death. A moment to reflect on the craft, the thinking behind every decision, and what artists can carry forward into their own creature animation projects.

Duration: 33s