Character Rigging in Adobe Animate (OLD - New Video in Desc)
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Today, we're in Adobe Animate taking a look at rigging a basic character using the bone tool. We apply proportional speed to our character's limbs and limit or constrain their movement based on more realistic limits (like your elbow only bending one way!) Let's do it!
00:00 Intro
00:19 Tutorial Begins
00:29 Making Your Character From Symbols
00:57 Correctly Positioning Anchor Points
01:47 Rigging Using the Bone Tool
03:38 Adding Null Objects for Extra Control
05:01 Correct Layer Positioning
06:06 Change the Armature View Mode
06:44 Limiting & Constraining Joint Movement
07:58 Proportional Speed for Limb Movement
09:37 Pinning Bones in Place for Unique Control
10:53 Tweaking Control Points to Fix Elbows and Knees
12:29 Limiting Rotation & Translation Amounts
16:41 Armature Animation
20:19 Member Shoutouts
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This is the most comprehensible tutorial I could find on TH-cam. Thanks a million. Do share more.
Thanks! More on the way!
@@TipTut this is so much easier than the puppet animation of Alfonso the Cat
Man, thank you! You saved my homework and I'm grateful for that, I'll share your videos with my classmates. I love how you explain all the stuff that I'm like "wait but why doesn't it do this for me" and in the same second you say "maybe for you it might not work because you have to turn this on" and that's incredibly helpful. I also appreciate u kept the part where you are looking for the pin. Thank you!
Thanks so much, this is a great introduction to bone rigging. I like the way you leave in your mistakes and how to clean them up. That's got to be more helpful than just pretending it's perfect first time off.
This tutorial brought it all together and saved my life. THANK YOU.
Hey man, just found your channel today and I just want to say thanks, your videos have been incredibly helpful, and not incredibly boring. Thanks, and keep up the good work!
Glad I could help!
Awesome, just in time when I’m about to animate my first character :D I’d love to see the magnet tool tutorial too!
Still figuring it out but I know how to do it solidly ill upload one!
@@TipTut did you upload?
Thank you so much for this tutorial! You explained everything which made it so much easier to understand. I did not now this was possible in adobe animate, so again thank you! And if you havent already done it, I would love to see the magnet tool tutorial also :D
Awesome tutorial, keep it up at this level, it's great. And I'd also love to watch the tutorial about magnets. Thanks a lot!
this video was extremely helpful, this was my first time ever rigging character and Im super happy with how it turned out, thank you!
You're very welcome!
Hey man, I dont care is this is an Old video, I LOVE YOU! I was asking to myseflt what in the hell I did decide to study animation but this is GOLD!!!! Thank you!!!!!
Awesome tutorial, mate. Just the best. Much thanks to you!
You're tutorials are a life saver so nice and detailed thank you!!
Glad you like them!
fantastic!! Thank you!! by far the best tutorials I've found so far :D
A question: Can you use "easy ease" with a rigged animation? or is it just for tweens - the movements of my rig look kinda...stocky O.O
Just for tweens, but it works on any kind of tween
Brilliant work, thank your time and effort.
Great video, the menu works great
This video was so helpful. Thank you!
Thank you, it was very helpful!
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If I ever can I’m becoming a member. I love your tutorials!
Thankyou so much! :)
Excellent tutorial and great teaching skills. Two thumbs up.
Glad you liked it!
the best tutorial ever
super duper in love with your contents
Great tutorial, tanks from Portugal
I am waiting for it 😍
Hope you like it!
Yes would like to see a Magnet tut. Nice Work.
Thank you. I'm glad you still have this older tutorial available. I am going to try your new one with the EDAPT plugin, but I really need this one right now.
Happy to help :)
@@TipTut I'm having the worst time with rigging everything on the head. Well, what I really mean is that if I nest all the parts for the head in a graphic symbol, then I can't animate eyes and mouth on the main timeline.
I guess that is just the way it works in Adobe Animate? Sorry, I used different software before so I'm just getting used to A.A. I'm think about using that basic parenting for this particular project. hmmmm. Anyways, if you don't happen to reply, please know that I've appreciated many of your tutorials. 👍🏼
@@mrsbanimationclass Thanks for the comment. I can't seem to figure out how to get that timing to work and can't find a tutorial on it. I think I've resigned to just animating the head separately.
Set the head symbol to 'play once'. The first frame in the head symbol will start at the first keyframe that the symbol is on in the main timeline. If you've got animation already that you want to keep. Highlight the frames in the main timeline and right click, Synchronise Symbols.
You'll learn to love nested timelines. Trust me.
@@TipTut Awesome - I will try that! I DO love nested timelines. I'm just not used to THIS particular software yet. They all do things differently.
Thank you for sharing this tutorial
this is really awesome. im searching to your videos looking for the process how to make this character. i learn a lot from you sir. im watching none stop on your guide. maybe its not too late for me to learn this :) thank you
Thank you so much 😀
Such a great tutorial!
Thankyou!
So clear to follow thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
You're the best animate teacher! I'd love an SMR Tool tutorial
Noted!
Great tutorial, would love to see how the magnet tools works :-)
Noted!
OMG thank you so much! ive always wanted to learn!
Happy to help! Thankyou for being a member!
Thank you, you helped me a lot.
Thanks man This video really helped me
By the way is it possible to ease in and ease out the bone's movements at the same time? I tried to do that but I could apply only one of them for each movement
Amazing tutorial for bone rigging! It's super easy to understand :) I love that you also explained the functions of important property settings. :) One question tho, is there a way where we can convert an animation for this kind of rig into a template? if let's say, i want to re-use an animation for a crowd with the same rig structure.
I have this same question
You can export your character as an asset by going to File -> Export -> Export Scene as Asset. Once there, you can then export and save. Then you can open up any new animation file and you should be able to see it in your asset tab.
Very clear and useful ! Thank you!!!
Glad you like it!
Thank you for this tutorial it helped me a lot!
Glad it helped!
thank you very much tip tup for the resource from your website, it helps me, u made my day man, thxx.
Great tutorial! Thank you very much
Happy to help!
Answers to what i actually searched are normally in TipTut videos lol Thanks!
Happy to help!
awesome tutorial!! thanks
You're welcome!
Great video thanks
Thank you TipTup, I have learned a lot from your vids.
Glad to hear it
Thanks so much, this was amazing, so easy to follow
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much! I have a problems with bones in Animate. And crying about the. I think in Animate never can did bones animation. But today! A found your tutorial! With all my problems and questions and i happy! Thank you, dear!!
Glad I could help!
Awesome video thanks a lot
Hey ! Great tutorial. I just have a problem, when I do the rigg for the head, then the head is in the front (my eyes are in a different layer so we don't see them when the head is in the front for instance) and even if I press control shift down the head is still in the front :( Any idea? Thanks
Thank you so much this is really helpful :D
Glad it helped!
great tutorial!
Glad you think so!
Hats off! Thank you
You're welcome!
great video. Is there a trick if you have a black outline on your characters. Makes it tricky when moving joints
Oh nice!! I have to check and see if you have one for 4 legged animals as it seems like a very complicated process so I'm a bit intimidated yet excited to learn it.
I dont but thats a great shout! I'll add it to the list.
@@TipTut oh thank you so much!! I'd really like to incorporate the walking cycle for animals into my animations.
thank you so much for your good tutorials :D Question though ^^ is it okay for all the drawings to be in symbol: graphic mode? of no, what are the cons if all the parts are in symbol:graphic mode? (im rigging a character preparing it to be animated) (expect me to post this comment again in another video ^^ i really need to know the answer T_T)
TIP TUT IS AWESOME WOOOOO
Thanks!
Thank you for a good video!
Thank you too!
Loved the tutorial, but I need to ask: in what aspects is this more advantageous than using a character rigging plugin (like Duik or Rubberhose) in After Effects?
Different strokes for different folks :)
This is an amazing tutorial!
How do you work mixing rigging with bone or mapping and expression?
For example, this character, if you want mone him, blink the eyes, and lip sync in the same scene.
I do all of that inside the head symbol :)
I think to save time it would be a great idea to perfectly rig one character and keep duplicating the skin (duplicate symbol) for different characters thus keeping all the bones in place.
That's the benefit of rigs!
Very useful
Thankyou so much!
Thank you it's really nice .l love to hear more about the Magnet tool plugin you talk about.. 🌹🌹🌹 thanks 💝
Magnet tool
Thank you
Nice video, I'm glad to find a tutorial, I need to make an animation for a class.
Glad I could help!
It was hard looking at the tools but when I watched it, it made it look easier!
Hello there ! Great stuff =) My English is not perfect but I have a question :
I think one of the last update give the possibility to save movements of the rig (for example a walkcycle) and apply it automatically to a character when you need it. Do you know if it is possible to make a database of poses / cycles and reuse them for different characters (assuming that these characters have a roughly equivalent shape) ? Thanks a lot !
Yes thats exactly what you can do! I think you can just add the rig as an asset to the library!
thank you sir
Best 🔥🔥❤
I see when you click a place to put your first bone in it adds in the armature layer. Why is it when I put my first bone in it overwrites the layer I have for the torso and now it is armature? Thank you for the video.
hello. can you tell me how to lip sync when using the bone tool please and also how to change symbols too?
Thanks so much for your tutorials! Really helpful stuff. I am animating two characters dancing Waltz - couple rotations and stuff.Any tips on handling this type of action? So far I just got one of the characters what could be tap dancing and looking rather drunk. LOL
For that complex animation where they spin around you'd need to do it frame by frame.
Hi, nice and comprehensive tutorial! The bone tool worked so smoothly for you...
I had a huge several hours fight with it: somehow the body parts moved around and changed and sometimes randomly disappeared on some frames. All of them were symbols. I created a tween and tried to edit key frames there and it would not work smoothly and the anchor points would change it's location... then I tried to publish it/view and animate just crashed (around 10 sec of animation, all vector parts apart background picture)... So I gave up and decided to take a little brake... for now :D
I wonder if bone tool is somehow undeveloped or it's me who he is struggling/doing something wrong...
Rigging with layers felt like a walk in the park comparing to this.
p.s. I was working in html5 canvas (so I can export is for html) and there is no parenting option available there. :/
There are different options for AS and HTML5 due to limitations of the publishing format. The bone tool is a little cumbersome, but I've not experienced the issues you're showing, sorry!
Hey, have you tried Moho Pro? Isn't it an easier approach to rigging and bones and characters? :)
When you say you “chopped him up” do you mean you drew him all on one layer and then chopped him up into the bits ? Which tool do you use for that ? I’ve got a few toons I drew all at once on one layer and I thought because it’s on one layer it’s now not able to animate him? But can I just cut the drawing up using a tool ?
Great video thank you
No I drew them on separate layers, but you could try the lasso tool for selection.
we want that tut!😛
I have one more question! is there a way to save a version of a rigged object to make subtle changes without affecting other symbols? I have a symbol of broken branch that I want to fall off of a moving tree (I used the bone tool to make the branches sway). Thank you so much!
You can drag a rig to the assets panel to save the rig, then drag out copies and edit them as much as you like.
I'm wondering if you can help me with a question. Once I'm done rigging, I want to move my character, but it pivots on the small white diamond at the base of his neck. There are no pins, but I can only move the character's limbs, I can't move the entire character around.. Can you help me understand why?
Me too! tHe magnet tool!
TipTut smashing it out the park again. This is the kind of tutorial people pay a lot of money for.
Thankyou so much for the kind feedback!
I realized that layer parenting is much better than the messy half baked armature tool. Though bone has IK, you can do the same in FK with layer parenting. Bone armature puts all symbols in one layer making it difficult to revisit key frames of individual symbols. Moreover, the translate constrain is kinda broken.
True, I have another tutorial on simple layer parenting rigging on the channel, I just try to explore all options for everyone.
How do you do classic ease, linear ease in/out quadratic ease etc, on the armature
Even after turning off the (auto set transformation) my bone tool is not able to add points in my mesh, and it is only allowing bone points to anchor point..
So pre-rigging is the first part of the video right? Divide and point the joins
this is useful ya know thx.
You're welcome
My character is not incredibly complex but I want them to also turn around and show them from different angles ... would you still recommend using the bone tool and just make lots of different symbols and layers for each side or would you recommend to draw it by hand?
Both ways are great options, you can use frame picker to show the different angles
how do you choose whether a limb goes in front or behind the body?
first of all thank you soo much for your lovely videos I have been learned soo much from you, but I have a question about this video , I want to start making my own character but how did you creat the null object , and I would love if you can show the SMR tool
The null object is just a normal symbol :)
you should make how to save a rig, I've heard that there was a new update that you can just drag and drop a pre-made rig to the graphics and all you need to do is to keyframe the movements. I think it saves a lot of time especially for those templated projects
You literally drag a rig into the assets panel itll be a short tutorial haha
@@TipTutyow, first of all, you may not know me I'm your random youtube student and thank you for making such great tutorials it helps me a lot to be educated with adobe an.
now to respond to your reply which is very accomodating of you, I can't, I try dragging it but nothing is happening I think the problem here is the software itself
still ty for answering tho
Oh no :( it should work I've no idea why it doesnt sorry!
Great, Thanks. One question, Would you use the constraint tool to attach the ayes and the mouths to the head so they move along with it? Because I tried to do that once since no tutorial about bones in adobe talked about the rest of the symbols, just like them, but I couldn't because the bones in CS6 didn't allow me to see where I was pinning the bones, since they are bigger than those ones you got there.
I'd put them inside the head symbol
Then use frame picker to move between preset poses for the face.
Hmmm I think I got you. For instance "talking head, angry face", etc.?
Hey, I hadn't thought of that, thanks a million!
I'm trying to learn bone rigging for game development since my artist skills is shit, I'd like to make my own character ( a basic stick figure) to figure this out but I dont understand how you move the anchors. Also wheres the bone tool and what is this symbol mechanic and how you make a vector shape a symbol? Could you do a complete tutorial in one video so I don't have to watch a whole series...drawing a simple 2 minute snake for instance and rigging it up with simple animation.
Edit: Nvm I just realised I'm using illustrator...like I said this arts is new to me lol ik only programming
Hello, thank you very much for the video!
I have a problem, I can't move the central bone, which belongs to the center of the body, therefore I can't make my character jump or crouch. Do you know why? Thank you!!
This is the tutorial I need 😍
Hope you find it useful on Monday!
I’ve noticed that when you turn off joint rotation for the arm, you can no longer rotate the torso. Is there a way to turn off joint rotation for the arm socket, but still be able to rotate the torso?
Actually, literally 5 seconds after writing this comment, I realized that to fix the problem, you can constrain the rotation for the torso. This solves the problem, however, I feel that you shouldn’t have to constrain that join to make this work.
Would you please make a video on The Smart Magnet 🧲 Rigging? 😀
Do you need a specific plugin to have the mt object in the library? mine animation doesnt have that object and google is coming up inconclusive
Nope, it's not needed in this tutorial.
Hey! so I use a Mac and I can't find the preferences for the bone tool
Hey, would you Color all the body parts before rigging everything or after ?
It's a constant process of tweaking, so you can revise and add colour and additional detail as you go.
Thanks
how do i put the smr tool on my adobe animate?
Check their website but its not used at all in this tutorial.
that's great but how to do the first steps ... I`ve drawn my character on photoshop then moved it to Animate but I don`t know how to separate the body parts to save them as different symbols
Hello, I would like to see the kineflex tutorial
hey I just want to know if you made the character's joints in one symbol, then made the separate joints in separate symbols, because I can see two layers when you first started it
Each joint has its own symbol.