Spine PRO: A Complete 2D Character Animation Guide

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1 - Preparing Your 2D Character for Animation

1 - Introduction.mp4

02:04

2 - How Spineready Character Should Look Like.mp4

01:59

2 - astrid-for-udemy-pro.zip

3 - How to Export a Character from Photoshop.mp4

02:46

3 - images-JSON-file.zip

4 - How to Import a Character Into Spine.mp4

02:45

5 - How to Fix Missing Images Issue.mp4

00:48

6 - How to Save Your Spine Project.mp4

01:16

2 - Rigging with Meshes and IK Constraints

7 - Creating Your First Mesh.mp4

04:59

8 - Creating Meshes for the Armor.mp4

08:04

9 - Creating Meshes for the Bending Parts.mp4

08:18

10 - Character Rig pt1 Rigging a Leg.mp4

06:30

11 - Character Rig pt2 Core Skeleton.mp4

06:12

12 - Character Rig pt3 Cape and Hair.mp4

04:53

13 - Character Rig pt4 Ponytail with Path.mp4

06:10

14 - Character Rig pt5 Head Control with Transform Constraints.mp4

07:44

15 - Completing The Head Control.mp4

04:04

16 - Binding Meshes to the Bones with Weights Tool.mp4

03:41

17 - Binding Ponytail Path to the Bones.mp4

06:24

18 - Adding IK Constraints.mp4

06:12

19 - Adding the Second Leg.mp4

04:29

20 - How to Change the Draw Oder.mp4

02:22

21 - Adding a Missing Bone.mp4

00:32

22 - How to Color the Bones.mp4

03:46

23 - How to Change the Bones Icons.mp4

01:54

24 - Creating a Test Animation With a 3D Effect.mp4

12:18

25 - Download the Character Rig.html

25 - astrid-rig.zip

3 - Spine Pro User Interface

26 - Spine User Interface.mp4

07:28

27 - Spine-Pro-cheat-sheet.pdf

27 - Useful Keyboard Shortcuts.mp4

05:49

27 - Useful-keyboard-shortcuts.pptx

4 - Creating The Idle Animation

28 - Idle Animation pt1 Core Movement.mp4

07:52

29 - Idle Animation pt2 Secondary Motion.mp4

09:08

30 - NEW Spine 40 Graph Editor Enhancing Idle Animation with Graphs.mp4

06:32

31 - OLD Spine 38 Graph Editor Enhancing Idle Animation with Graphs.mp4

04:34

32 - Enhancing Idle Animation with Offsets.mp4

07:26

5 - Creating the Run Cycle

33 - Run Cycle pt1 Core Movement.mp4

10:30

34 - Run Cycle pt2 Completing the Core Loop.mp4

06:09

35 - Run Cycle pt3 Secondary Motion.mp4

12:18

36 - Run Cycle pt4 Creating a 3D Illusion.mp4

11:14

37 - Run Cycle pt5 Completing the 3D Illusion.mp4

13:02

38 - Enhancing Run Animation with Graphs.mp4

03:24

39 - Enhancing Run Animation with Offsets.mp4

08:42

40 - NEW Spine 40 Update How to Change Animation Length.mp4

02:13

41 - OLD Spine 38 How to Change Animation Length.mp4

02:16

42 - Small Fixes to the Run Cycle.mp4

02:44

6 - Creating the Blinking Animation

43 - How to Add a New Image to Your Spine Project.mp4

01:29

43 - closed-eyes.zip

44 - How to Add a New Slot.mp4

02:15

45 - Blinking Eyes Animation.mp4

03:56

46 - How to Use Preview Mode.mp4

02:06

7 - Advanced Features

47 - How to Export Animations from Spine.mp4

03:56

8 - Course Conclusion

48 - Conclusion.mp4

00:52

Description

Learn to create professional 2D character animations for Games!

What You'll Learn?

Creating professional 2D animations: idle, blinking and run cycle
Advanced Spine Pro techniques for animation enhancement and 3D feel
Including: Meshes, Weights, Paths, IK, Transform Constraints, and more
Preparing a character rig ready for animation
Useful practices to save time & increase animation process efficiency
Overcoming common issues

Who is this for?

Beginner to advanced level 2D digital animators

Game developers looking to create professional 2D character animations

Anyone passionate about 2D animation for games

What You Need to Know?

Keyboard and mouse

Spine Professional Licence (purchased from Esoteric Software)

No prior knowledge required

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Description
When it comes to professional looking 2D character animations for games with a 3D effect to them, Spine Pro is your go-to software. This course will show you how to use Spine and all its advanced practical tools for creation of pro-level animations you could use in your game.
Starting off with basics, and quickly advancing to Pro techniques such as Mesh Animation, Path Constraints, IK and many more, this course sets out to grant you a complete understanding of 2D character animation process in Spine Pro.
Why choose Spine for your game character animations?
Spine 2D Animation Software has gained an immense following both from game developers and 2D digital animators in the past few years. In fact, it is one of the leading tools for 2D skeletal animation.
The Pro licence is the ultimate form of this powerful software.

The reasons to use Spine are quite straightforward:
- Spine is easy to learn, and intuitive in use.
- The software is fit both for beginners and advanced animators.
- Spine Pro has all of the advanced 2D animation features a software can offer.
- Spine game animations are easily integrated with most game engines.
- Excellent integration with illustration tools for artwork import.
In other words, with Spine Pro there is pretty much no limit to what you can do as a 2D animation artist. Even a 3D effect in 2D animations! All is in your hands.
So, get ready to create animations like a Pro!
What will you get from this course?
This course offers a detailed review of Spine Pro 2D animation software. It will include preparation for animation process, best practices for animating a character, and enhancing the animations with various advanced tools.

In this course we will:
- Export a character from Photoshop (or other graphic redactor) into Spine
- Create a character rig using Meshes, Paths, and Transform Constraints
- Bind meshes to character bones using Weights
- Add Inverse Kinematics Constraints, and deal with Draw Order
- Create professional looking Idle, and Run animations with a 3D effect
- Enhance our animations using Offset and Graphs
- Learn how to export your animations from Spine
- Fix some common issues along the way, and more...
Throughout the course we will go over Spine Pro user interface, some useful shortcuts and best practices to make your animation process faster and more efficient.
On top of all that, the course is planned to be updated in the future.
Which means more fresh, up-to-date content for you, for the same price!
Why choose this course to learn 2D character animation?
Our goal with this course is to bring you all the practical tools of Spine Pro you might need for creating professional 2D character animations; Regardless of the level of your prior experience in animation.
We strive to build our lectures in a clear and precise manner that is both highly informative and easy to understand. All of the practices that you will learn, were tested out in the field, and derive from personal experience with 2D animation.
Moreover, we offer you:
- Personal guidance and answer to any questions (within reasonable response time of up to 1-2 work days, depending on the day of the week).
- Additional materials on the use of Spine Pro.
- Quizzes at the end of each course section to fortify your knowledge.
- Lifetime access to course materials (including any future updates in the course).
We love games and adore animation. This 2D character animation course is a passion which we are looking forward to sharing with you. So, letâ€™s get to work!
Sing up to this course, and start animating 2D game characters like a Pro!
Who this course is for:
Beginner to advanced level 2D digital animators
Game developers looking to create professional 2D character animations
Anyone passionate about 2D animation for games

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