Performance of many animated characters on mobile

Hello I'm working on a mobile game with a number of animated characters on screen at a peak could reach 60+ at a time.
Are there any good ways/tips to mitigate the consequent performance issues ? All feedback is appreciated

 

The first step is to test your game on the weakest target device and measure the performance. If it's acceptable you're finished.

If not, the next step is to attach the Unity profiler and run the game again on that target device. The profiler will help you identify performance hotspots. You just go and tackle those one by one until the performance is acceptable.

There's no one size fits all answer other than this because every game is different.

 

One first step is to keep the bones in rig number low but also will not attach the head directly to the rig ( with wieghts ) but will do it in the editor since it will not bend or deform (characters got no necks lol).

 

See that's the kind of thing that can't be given as general advice because not every game even uses rigged meshes and animations.