Failing to recreate default movement animation tutorial

Hi everyone,
i am trying to follow along a youtube tutorial for a basic character pawn creation and animation. I I use default animations / models included in UE5

I create a BP with default mesh however when simulating the game, none of the available default animations seems to work. The characters are spawned in TPose and continue to slode on the floor.
Animations of the player character are fine. Game mode is TopDown, but i dont think this should make any difference.

These are my settings:

And this is the result:
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