Adobe Animate Classroom in a Book (2021 release)

6. Character Animation with Bones

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Use the Bone tool to build armatures (skeletons) of movie clips.

• Use the Bone tool to build armatures of shapes.

• Animate armatures using inverse kinematics.

• Constrain and pin the armature joints.

• Edit the position of armature bones and joints.

• Refine shape deformations with the Bind tool.

• Simulate physics with the Spring feature.

• Use Rig mapping to swap armatures with new graphics.

This lesson will take approximately 2 hours to complete.

To get the lesson files used in this chapter, download them from the web page for this book at www.adobepress.com/AnimateCIB2021 ...