I was looking up a whole bunch of different tutorials on how to get my characters to animate with triggers.  I am looking for where exactly I went wrong so I can learn from this for the future.  I really want my final project to be in Unity and I am looking for ways to definitely improve.  I worked in PlayMaker and I was pretty sure I had the physics of what I was doing correctly but I guess my characters thought otherwise because they just stood there like statues...