Adobe Animate Classroom in a Book (2022 release)

7. Inverse Kinematics with Bones

Lesson overview

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

• Use the Bone tool to build armatures with connected movie clips.

• Use the Bone tool to build armatures inside 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.

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