Esoteric Software

[Erika]

Hello! This video shows various tips and tricks for animating a little isometric scene in Spine and it is suitable for Spine ESS and PRO users of all levels.



RESOURCES

Assets and Spine file and Original PSD file

Photoshop script and Other scripts

CHAPTERS LIST
Good for people that search on the forum for something specific:

CHAPTER 1: TREES AND BUSHES
0:48 creating bones for trees and bushes
1:32 renaming with find and replace
1:53 changing the color of bones
2:03 parenting the images to bones quickly
2:24 animating the trees
3:17 moving keyframes in an animation
3:29 animating the bushes with the shear tool

CHAPTER 2: THE ROOSTER
4:10 bone creation and image parenting
4:38 animating the rooster

CHAPTER 3: THE WINDMILL BLADES
5:14 creating a first bone and parenting the images
6:09 making a frontal rotation (hint: 0°, 120°, 240°, 0)
6:39 rotating in the opposite direction (hint: 0°, 240°, 120°, 0)
6:52 making an object turn with isometric perspective
(scale by 0.86 and shear by 30°, in this case it's 20° though)
8:09 using the preview view
8:45 offsetting one of the bones to achieve tridimensionality

CHAPTER 4: SMOKE VFX
9:09 setup of the bone
9:32 using compensate to fix the position of a bone with children
9:52 animating the smoke (translate, scale, rotate, and fade)
11:01 duplicating a bone with its animations
11:08 offsetting an animation with the offset tool

CHAPTER 5: FLOWERS
12:09 creating bones
12:36 parenting the images by filtering the tree (hint: press P)
12:49 animating the flower
13:52 applying easing on everything
14:31 cloning the flower and position the clones around
15:11 differentiating the flowers by scaling parts of them
15:46 changing the image shown in a slot with another one
16:05 changing the color of many images at the same time
17:06 tweaking the animation by offsetting some flowers

[renderplace]

Nice, and thanks for sharing!
Can you please check the links to the source files, seems like they are broken?

[Nate]

Links fixed!

[trinee]

amazing work Erikari, congrats

[wagabag]

Thank you Erikaki, showing your workflow really helps! Please keep them coming

[Crocodilum]

Loved it, tons of tips, great video. Keep them coming

[Omen]

Thank you Erikari, this video is very nice, i have learned some skills.
I hope there are more videos.

[Nate]

Drop by Erikari's Twitch stream, every Tuesday and Thursday!
https://www.twitch.tv/esotericsoftware
You can also review videos of previous streams:
https://www.youtube.com/user/EsotericSoftware
See each video's description for links to various topics within the video.

[chrismweb]

Wow, very nice!

I'll have to look through there in more detail- looks liked a lot of helpful tricks I hadn't figured out myself!

Looking forward to more!

Just curious though- roughly what age bracket are you in Erikari? I had somehow thought you were older/ 22-35, but you have a younger sounding voice- my wife does too (though you do sound a bit like Sakimi Chan- an artist who does a lot of patreon tutorials).

It doesn't really matter though, just curious- if you are younger, excellent job becoming a pro so fast! If not, you're lucky you have a young sounding voice xD


Also, thanks for sending out the email today about having the twitch stream and youtube videos on afterward (I never use twitch, but I know it's popular, so will be watching all the youtube videos). I check back on the spine forums once a month or so to get inspired, but haven't been able to dedicate the time to work on animation much :/ (but planning on an adventure game, so will have to catch up soon)

[Erika]

I'm happy you liked the video! I'm still getting down what to do for the next video tutorial since I'm showing a lot of the things I wanted to put in it during the stream

Just curious though- roughly what age bracket are you in Erikari? I had somehow thought you were older/ 22-35, but you have a younger sounding voice- my wife does too (though you do sound a bit like Sakimi Chan- an artist who does a lot of patreon tutorials).

I'm 26! I'm a tiny person and it reflects in my voice °x° I hope it doesn't annoy you too much, (it sure annoys me, but I can't change it Q.Q)

Also, thanks for sending out the email today about having the twitch stream and youtube videos on afterward

Happy it helped to get some resources discovered!:D It's Badlogic's merit!

(but planning on an adventure game, so will have to catch up soon)

Adventure game! yes! Do post about it in the showcase section as soon as you have something please, I love the genre and would love to stay updated!

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

Really awesome!