Spine 2D Tutorial for Beginners: Rigging, Meshes and Weights
In this Spine 2D tutorial I'll show you how to use meshes, weights, how to bind bones to the mesh, and many more small tricks that will help you create animations in Spine.
And oh, yes, you'll learn how to build a rig for the character too! 😉
Hope you'll find it useful! 👍
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Since many of you have asked, I've created a Udemy course on Spine Pro! 💛 ► Enroll HERE: www.udemy.com/course/spine-pro-a-complete-2d-character-animation-guide/?referralCode=84DB13BBD24AC645D6EA
@Leatherjacks
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so so so so so so so much! Just bought your course, super AMAZING!
@ThinkCitric
3 жыл бұрын
@@Leatherjacks Wow, thank you so much! :)
@myke113
2 жыл бұрын
I have both of your Spine courses, are you going to make anymore..?? Or perhaps one on the creative process of creating the characters in Photoshop, and another on integrating the Spine animations into Unity..?
@jasmyn1258
11 ай бұрын
Hi! Is your tutorial and Udemy course using Spine 2D Essential or Professional? And if you're using Professional, would we be able to achieve the same effects with Essential? Thanks!☺️
@ThinkCitric
11 ай бұрын
@@jasmyn1258Hi! I have separate courses on Spine Pro and Essential, each one covering the most important features of each version. If the effects you've mentioned is 2.5D, then Spine Pro is definitely better since it supports meshes. You can achieve 2.5D to a certain degree with Essential using shear and scale tools, but it will not be as smooth as with meshes.
This is more clear than the other tutorial, thank you so much for this.
You are a gifted teacher! I purchased your udemy course yesterday and already I understand things I couldn't get before. I'm going to take all your courses now!!
thank you very much, every time I search my questions about spine on KZread it's your page that always have all answers, you're awesome 💓💓💓💓💓💓
Very great tutorial. One of the best if not best. So much useful knowledge in such short time.
Thank you. You really made my learning process so much easier! Instantly subscribed ;)
@ThinkCitric
4 жыл бұрын
I'm really glad it helps! :)
Thank you so much! It's so understandable! The best tutorial! ❤
this cover everything for basic setup. what a incredible and usefull video. thank you.
Just discovered this channel and I love it
This is the best basic tutorial in whole youtube universe
Amazing teacher and Tutorial!! I've struggled with other tutorials, but you managed to make a thorough tutorial in less than 20 mins while still keeping all the valuable information in! Thank you again! If I choose to buy Spine Pro, I will definitely buy your Udemy Course!
Super Educator, Its clearly and detailed explanation, We need more tutorials about spine . Thank you.🙏
Thank you very much for the tutorial. I love how you explained it. I really want to see the second one! ;)
@ThinkCitric
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your feedback! Working on the second part right now, and will release it in 1-2 days, so stay tuned! ;)
So helpful! Thank you :) You motivate me to keep on going and not to give up
@ThinkCitric
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! It warms my heart to read that! :)
best tutorial I've seen. thank you.
No matter what I do I cannot get past the binding process. Nothing is working when I attempt to bind bones to an image to be able to move it. nothing online has provided any help.
really interesting, and very useful. A thousand thanks.
thank you so much for mentioning what you're doing with your mouse and keyboard, unlike some other "tutorials" out there
Thank you! Your videos are really useful and you help me a lot! Waiting for a new exiting tutorials!
@ThinkCitric
3 жыл бұрын
Happy to hear that! :)
This is the best Spine tutorial I have found in KZread! Amazing work.
@ThinkCitric
4 жыл бұрын
I'm thrilled to hear that! Thank you so much for your feedback!
@albertoramirez9465
4 жыл бұрын
@@ThinkCitric just enrolled in your Udemy course. Your tutorials great!
@ThinkCitric
4 жыл бұрын
@@albertoramirez9465 Thank you so much for your support! Hope you will like the course, and feel free to ask me any questions! :)
Thank you so much. it was easy to understand for me. best tutorial!
ILove you your tutorial style
Switched from Spriter Pro to Spine and oh my gosh, loving Spine more. The skin mode in Spriter is buggy which is understandable since it’s experimental. But I can’t stand it because it doesn’t do what I wanted it to do. This tutorial is super helpful and I always refer to it. I just started using Spine too XD
Thanks for this nice tutorial :)
Thank you. This is a good tutorial
thanks. awesome video.
Thank you!
I never heard of this before but the concepts are almost the exact same with 3D rigging and animating, which makes it easier to understand.
Amazing tutorial this helped so much~~~
@ThinkCitric
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I'm glad to hear that! :)
thank youu ❤️
Thank you!! I've been strugled in the "bind" parts before watch your video😅
very helpful
Thank you for the tutorial :D
@ThinkCitric
3 жыл бұрын
Glad it helps! :)
after too much video i found on ytb, this is video i need
Очень классно!!! Благодарю мадам! =))))
Thank you - very helpful! Pls create more Spine tuts
@ThinkCitric
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! Yes, I have a few ideas for new Spine tutorials. Just hope to find some time to create them soon! :)
you are really really amazing
Thank you so much!!!!
@ThinkCitric
3 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped! :)
Thank you for your perfect tutorials , Can you please teach me how and where to put Ik in horse character? I need it immediately
0:00~8:35 Adding mesh to Image 8:36~14:05 Rigging 14:06 ~ Weight
Dear Master, your education is so so good, i m not good my english but you realy easy learning to us. And i want to buy your udemy packed, i waiting udemy discont, its does some times. Ty for everthing :)
how big should the illustration be if I'm making a mobile game? the character should cover almost the full screen. thanks!
I feel like Wonder Woman is teaching me Spine. Not complaining. Beautiful voice
Thanks much! Where can I find this project PSD ?
I like tutorial it for my games
Lol this lady with an accent is smart as well as funny!! btw holarius charcater !!
Is there better software that lets you do this faster?
Is this tutorial still up to date and works with new spine version?
can you please tell me from where i can get this character for practice
where can we download the example file so we can follow?
hello. I seem to having a problem when using ctrl. I can't select the image when i'm holding ctrl when doing bones
Is there an iPad app with the same bones and rigging?
Did this method works on jeson files because it is not showing mesh button to me
pressing control does not do anything i think the software has been updated to where its a different button and now im stuck
Looks like it is important to make points on shape symmetrically so on left and right you have same amount of points ?? {Like on 3D mesh} Actually it is a question not a statement but just want to make sure my thinking is logical. When you made center line and you start connecting across points i noticed that somehow you have same amount of points on left and right side. So when you create all points around the shape you are already calculating how place those points and how many ? You do not go around just click click click click click click click click ??
Do you know where to get the program? I’m struggling to find it 😅
i didn't understand the reason why you added the orange lines on the hair, arms and legs but not on the eye,mouth parts. What is the reason? Also thank you for the video, your explanation style is very clear :)
Is the character available somewhere so we can follow along?
How did you unhide those meshes? 6:33
Can you provide the project file?
👍👍👍
When ever i click on the mesh its not bringing up the weights tab. can somebody help?
15:30, why i dont have pink point
need more tutorial
I need spine creak please give me link
Really amazing but I was wondering if I could create a mesh without the pro version?
@ThinkCitric
4 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, no. Meshes are one of the Pro version features, and they are not available in Essential. Well, there's also a Trial version if you want to try it out, but you can't save or export your project there.
@deadassmemes1776
4 жыл бұрын
@@ThinkCitric Yes I'm really dissapointed to hear this I really thought this is important to be able to make your character look more alive I might switch back to live2D thank you for replying!
can u provide the art ? it will be helpful
I am 10 years old and I want to make stuff like this... One of the games I play is called meow playground created with spine, and I wish to create a spine game someday.
@ThinkCitric
3 жыл бұрын
Best of luck to you Aubrey! I hope to play your game someday!
@queen3333___
3 жыл бұрын
@@ThinkCitric Really? You will? :O I'll send a link to my game when its finished :D Thanks!!!
there is no mesh option when I click on the image file.
When you say the "left key", do you mean the left arrow key, or the mouse left key?
@ThinkCitric
3 жыл бұрын
left mouse key :)
I can't create or even see a mesh? Like I click the image the same way but there is no option to create a mesh? Do I need to download or am I missing something?
@CodeSly
3 жыл бұрын
I'm also having problems rigging bones to specific layers, what do I do?
@ThinkCitric
3 жыл бұрын
@@CodeSly Which version of Spine are you using? Is it Essential or Pro? Please keep in mind that meshes are available in Pro and Trial versions only.
@CodeSly
3 жыл бұрын
@@ThinkCitric Seems I only have the essential version... Does that mean I can't properly use the bone tool because every tutorial I see uses the mesh tool when rigging and I can't seem to get the bones working properly
@ThinkCitric
3 жыл бұрын
@@CodeSly you can use the bones with the essential version too. What you need to do, however, is to use only one bone per image. Linking two or more bones to an image will not have any effect in Essential version. Slice your character images into more images, if necessary. BTW, we have a Udemy course focused on Spine Essential, it has 3 hours of video content and covers everything you need to get confident about character animation in Spine. Here it is: www.udemy.com/course/learn-2d-character-animation-for-games-in-spine-essential/?referralCode=828AEA929E30837D1F4F Hope it helps! :)
@mistafisha
2 жыл бұрын
I am using Spine 4 and I do not see how you made a mesh for an image. There is no Option. This is totally holding me back. Please help.
is there a free alternative because it's too expensive!
"I know it sounds complicated now" - Me attempting to create bones for my 25th time. For the example when you bind the two bones to the arm mesh. The parent bone when I attempt to move it, the child doesn't move with it. Why is that?
@darrylblake9680
2 жыл бұрын
5 months later I come back to this to try and make sense of it And guess what? My child bones still don't move when I move the parent bone. - Update: I had the Bone option "locked". For anyone who has the same issue as me.
Bones wont bind to the created mesh and alwasy flips the layer. Im losing my mind. Anyone lese got this problem?
Hi, what app do you use to draw the characters before exporting to Spine?
@ThinkCitric
3 жыл бұрын
Hi, I personally like using Photoshop. But Spine is also compatible with After Effects, GIMP, Illustrator and Inkscape.
what's a "left key"?
@ThinkCitric
3 жыл бұрын
*left mouse key
Damn... You have take more time to do this animation with this app than if you make it yourself by hand !
wololo
Just tried it and none of the child bones will rotate with the parent bones.
@ThinkCitric
3 жыл бұрын
It might be that you have the bones compensation turned on, it does exactly that. To fix that, you just need to make sure the "Bones" button in the toolbar below is not blue. Here's more about it: en.esotericsoftware.com/spine-tools#Compensation
15:09 bending area affected
Why not just not use spine and do the same exact thing in Blender for free?
look like moho animation
hindi voice video you can
"holding the left key".... left key?
@ThinkCitric
3 жыл бұрын
*left mouse key
can i use spine for free
@ThinkCitric
4 жыл бұрын
There's a trial version that you can download for free, but you won't be able to save or export your project.
@orkun441
4 жыл бұрын
@@ThinkCitric its too expensive for a student like me
@milionST
4 жыл бұрын
@@orkun441 use Dragonbones. It is a free program that has, more or less, the same tools as Spine. Personally i prefer Spine, but Dbones is an amazing free alternative.
@orkun441
4 жыл бұрын
@@milionST yes im using dragonbones right now 👍🏻
@bluethumbbuttoneek9465
4 жыл бұрын
Be a pirate
plz show me a flag animation in easy way
What? She just jumps in idk what any of this stuff is? tutorial for beginners mean people who are beginning. Not people who already know.
lmao girl you skipped a giant step in the beginning... a tutorial for people who already know some of the basics not for beginners
I just want to be able to turn the image into multiple layers like you... i dont have photoshop
> "Make sure to create as few vertices as possible" > Literally creates, like, a hundred verts for the hat portion niggа what
15:09 bending area affected