Spine PRO: A Complete 2D Character Animation Guide

Learn to create professional 2D character animations for Games!

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English
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3D & Animation
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Spine PRO: A Complete 2D Character Animation Guide
4,730
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4 hours
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Jul 2021
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$94.99
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What you will 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

Why take this course?

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, let’s get to work!

Sing up to this course, and start animating 2D game characters like a Pro!

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Reviews

Jorge
November 15, 2023
buen curso explicacion rapida y sencilla de lo que necesitas saber para mejorar tus animaciones para video juegos
Anthony
October 16, 2023
So far it's good. Need to see more. There are a few occasions where information is missing, but otherwise it's easy enough to follow.
Tsvetko
September 26, 2023
all is perfect, only will be nice if it possible, the subs sometimes covering some part of the screen and there is moments when is not very good visible where is the mouse when showing something on the bottom part of the screen. ;)
Daniel
September 18, 2023
Very good course, I am learning a lot, I like the pace, how clear all the instructions are and how nice the teacher voice is. Love it
SERGI
August 25, 2023
Can't recommend enough this course, covers the basics to get into Spine!! Hope the author releases another one with advanced Spine techniques, would definitely buy it.
Muhammed
August 8, 2023
I started learning Spine with this course. Although I had a little difficulty in the beginning, I tried to grasp the logic by doing some things over and over again. So thank you. Only in some parts the video is accelerated, it was difficult for me to follow them. Thanks for everything. I think I've made a good introduction to Spine.
Melis
August 2, 2023
It was a great course, I am a 3d animator and I didnt know anything about 2d animation, thanks to her now I can create 2d animations :)
Nena
July 28, 2023
The course was very clear and easy to understand. I learned so much with character bone building and I am excited to try it on my own characters. This is a really good course on 2D character rigging.
Ariane
May 25, 2023
Great class to refresh my memory on Spine. I do also think some of the sped up parts should be slower, especially in the face section as it's more complexed then the rest. I feel like this type of character covered a lot of different assets and situations we might encounter with our own characters. Thank you for the great class! Don't hesitate to read out the Q&A section as you might learn a few more things or issues that could pop up later.
DEEPANKAR
May 19, 2023
I am absolute Spine beginner, I learned a lot with this course. Now I am very confident to more with spine. thanks.
Cem
May 15, 2023
really well prepared. just wished the sped up parts were done real-time and not just sped up, otherwise really useful course.
Jan
May 8, 2023
An absolute fantastic course. I learnt so much in a short amount of time. Very clear and great pacing. Recommended!
Brandon
April 22, 2023
Very detailed and the pacing is perfect I am enjoying how easy it is so far to understand these advanced tools.
Jay
March 24, 2023
This is exactly what I needed to learn how to navigate through Spine. Watching YouTube only helps so far. Focusing on one character really helps to learn how to troubleshoot when issues arise. The lectures build on top of each other and often the answers can be found on the knowledge from a previous one. I'm familiar with Adobe Flash (yeah it's been a while) so learning the UI and what it's capable of doing was an easy transition.
Derrick
March 22, 2023
Great course for someone who has never used spine and has a little knowledge of how animation works. I enjoyed this course very much!

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