Learn 2D Character Animation for Games in Spine Essential

Learn 2D Character Animation for Games in Spine Essential, available at $74.99, has an average rating of 4.7, with 46 lectures, 7 quizzes, based on 186 reviews, and has 952 subscribers.

You will learn about Build character rigs for animation Animate in Spine 2D Essential Get comfortable with Spine Essential UI, and work like a Pro with useful hotkeys Create essential 2D game animations: idle, walk cycle, jump and more Enhance your animations to a professional level with Graphs and Offsets Useful work practices to save time & increase animation process efficiency Overcome common issues This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginner to intermediate level 2D digital animators or Game developers looking to create professional 2D character animations or Anyone passionate about 2D animation for games It is particularly useful for Beginner to intermediate level 2D digital animators or Game developers looking to create professional 2D character animations or Anyone passionate about 2D animation for games.

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Summary

Title: Learn 2D Character Animation for Games in Spine Essential

Price: $74.99

Average Rating: 4.7

Number of Lectures: 46

Number of Quizzes: 7

Number of Published Lectures: 46

Number of Published Quizzes: 7

Number of Curriculum Items: 53

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 53

Original Price: $109.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Build character rigs for animation

Animate in Spine 2D Essential

Get comfortable with Spine Essential UI, and work like a Pro with useful hotkeys

Create essential 2D game animations: idle, walk cycle, jump and more

Enhance your animations to a professional level with Graphs and Offsets

Useful work practices to save time & increase animation process efficiency

Overcome common issues

Who Should Attend

Beginner to intermediate level 2D digital animators

Game developers looking to create professional 2D character animations

Anyone passionate about 2D animation for games

Target Audiences

Beginner to intermediate level 2D digital animators

Game developers looking to create professional 2D character animations

Anyone passionate about 2D animation for games

Making awesome, professional-level 2D animations for games is a passion that we would like to share with you in this easy and very detailed Spine Essential animation course!

You will get familiar with all of the steps: from character rigging (using Photoshop or any other graphic redactor you use), to setting up your game’s character for animation in Spine, finishing with a polished top-shelf 2D animations set ready for use.

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 fact, it is one of the leading tools for 2D skeletal animation to date. The reasons are quite straightforward:

– Spine is easy to learn, and intuitive in use.
– The software is fit both for beginners and advanced animators.
– Spine game animations are easily integrated with most game engines.
– Excellent integration with illustration tools for artwork import.

Plus, in this course we will show you how to get the max out of your Spine Essential licence. So, if you want to learn how to create exceptional animations, hop on!

What will you get from this course?

This is a Spine Essential 2D animation course, and we will explore all of the aspects of that software with a gentle nod to integration of your animations into your game.

– Explore the planning, rigging and preparation of your character to animation.
– Detailed explanation on Spine game rigging process.
– Proper use of Spine 2D Essential functions for animation.
– Create smooth 2D animations, and enhance them to perfection.
– A lot of useful work practices, some fixing of common issues, and more practical principles to make your animation process easier.

But that’s not all too. We plan to expand on the information here in the future. And it’s great for you, because once you buy this course you will enjoy all of the updated content free of charge!

Why choose this course to learn 2D animation?

If you were ever wondering how to learn 2D animation in the most efficient way, the answer is simple: with a lot of trial and error. This can sometimes be discouraging; especially for beginners.

This course is designed in a “from basic to advanced” manner, easing your way into Spine 2D animation software, as well as the animation process in general.
And on top of that 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 Essential.
– Quizzes at the end of each course section to fortify your knowledge.
– Lifetime access to course materials (including any future updates in the course).

And of course, we love games and our main drive is to share knowledge with those interested in 2D animation for games. So, feel free to take advantage of that as well.

Sing up to this course, and let’s start animating us some 2D game characters!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Spine Essential vs Pro

Chapter 2: Preparing Your 2D Character for Animation

Lecture 1: How Spine-ready character should look like

Lecture 2: How to export a character from Photoshop

Lecture 3: How to import a character into Spine

Lecture 4: How to fix missing images issue

Chapter 3: Rigging and Setting Up

Lecture 1: Creating your first rig in Spine – part 1

Lecture 2: Creating your first rig in Spine – part 2

Lecture 3: Adding the second leg

Lecture 4: How to color the bones

Lecture 5: How to change the draw order of the images

Chapter 4: Spine User Interface

Lecture 1: How to save your project

Lecture 2: Spine User Interface

Lecture 3: Useful Spine Hotkeys

Chapter 5: Creating The Idle Animation

Lecture 1: Idle animation part 1 – Core Movement

Lecture 2: Idle animation part 2 – Animating the Upper Part of the Body

Lecture 3: Idle animation part 3 – Animating the Legs

Lecture 4: How to use Graphs

Lecture 5: How to use Offsets

Chapter 6: Creating The Walk Cycle

Lecture 1: Walk cycle animation part 1 – Core Movement

Lecture 2: Walk cycle animation part 2 – Finalizing the Core Movement

Lecture 3: Walk cycle animation part 3 – Animating the Left Arm

Lecture 4: Walk cycle animation part 4 – Animating the Arms, Shoulders and Head

Lecture 5: Walk cycle animation part 5 – Animating the Hair, Face and Jacket

Lecture 6: Small Fixes to the Basic Walk Cycle

Lecture 7: Enhancing walk animation with Graphs

Lecture 8: Enhancing walk animation with Offsets

Lecture 9: Final polish to the walk cycle

Lecture 10: How to change animation length

Chapter 7: Creating The Jump Animation

Lecture 1: How to design a flexible jump animation

Lecture 2: Jump take off part 1 – Core Movement

Lecture 3: Jump take off part 2 – Finalizing the Basic Version

Lecture 4: Enhancing the take off animation

Lecture 5: Fall cycle animation

Lecture 6: Enhancing the fall cycle animation

Lecture 7: Landing animation part 1 – Animating the Feet

Lecture 8: Landing animation part 2 – Completing the First Half of the Animation

Lecture 9: Landing animation part 3 – Adding the Final Pose

Lecture 10: Enhancing the landing animation

Chapter 8: Creating Blinking Eyes Animation

Lecture 1: How to add a new image to your Spine project

Lecture 2: How to add a new slot

Lecture 3: Blinking eyes animation

Lecture 4: How to use Preview mode

Chapter 9: Advanced Features

Lecture 1: How to Add a New Skin

Lecture 2: How to export your animations from Spine

Chapter 10: Course Conclusion

Lecture 1: Course Conclusion

Instructors

Think Citric
Indie Game Dev Studio

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3 stars: 7 votes

4 stars: 50 votes

5 stars: 126 votes

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