Embedded Files
2D Character Rigs from the 2D Character Design course
Submit:
Submit:
Your .Fla file into the planning folder
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Make sure your file has your full name on it, please just add it to this folder instead of inside of another folder.
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Learn
Character Rigging for Miner Madness Intro
See these files for student created rigs.
Revisit the Character Design Page for this course: Rigging examples, layering examples are there.
Why we don't use the parenting tool in Animate:
Why we don't use the parenting tool in Animate:
You can't copy keyframes and bring them into another scene.
Create:
Create:
Start to create all of the assets that will be needed for your storyboard.
For each part of your rig: Make a symbol, For example, we can do a hand, We would turn our first hand done in the resting pose into a symbol (control-click and convert to a symbol, choose graphic symbol).
Then inside of that symbol in the new timeline we would have multiple versions of the hand along the timeline, frame 1-10 or so.
Then when we animate we can use the frame picker to choose hands from to make the required pose.
Examples:
Examples:
Mouth Rig for Izzy by Susan Bonner
Mouth Rig for Izzy by Susan Bonner
This image shows the frame picker in Adobe Animate with the mouths which are set up for both emotion and phenomes. On the layers you can see in the main timeline there is only one frame, I am on the symbol in the scene of the mouth since the layer is highlighted and the mouth has the blue box on in on the stage.
Since I have the frame picker on (window choose frame picker), I can see all of the versions of the mouths.
When I started the mouths, I started with the neutral mouth, then I made a symbol, control or alt click convert to symbol (or F8 or Function F8)
Then I have more mouths inside that symbol timeline
The mouths have multiple layers but those are all inside the symbol.
In the above image you can see how I am inside the mouth symbol.
The timeline will have all of the mouth assets. These are created in layers with the description. It would be better to name the layer the same as the symbol. Izzy_MouthPout but I have Mouth_Pout instead here.
You can see these are all graphic clips by the shape next to the mouth in the library it is a circle, triangle square icon.
In the above image I have clicked into the pouting mouth, this mouth has multiple layers, highlights, lips, shadow. Layer 2 is empty and could be deleted.
Rigs that you can analyze and learn from in the files
Rigs that you can analyze and learn from in the files
This file: Download 2DCharacterDesignRigs
has 6 rigged characters that you can study to understand rigging techniques.
Download these file so that we can analyze the method of rigging and the different folders for assets.
Download the Lizzy Drawing Demo
Keep everything in one layer that needs to be animated. Try using Biff as a test for this - Go to Frame 100 and shift click through the layers you need. Then make your new pose.
Wheels by Susan Bonner - Frame Selection
Tyler - from Let there be life by KCAD keyframe Caddy Hand symbols
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