Spine Videos
Note: We now have tutorial videos that follow the Spine User Guide very closely. The videos below are older and, while they still contain a lot of useful information, some features may have changed slightly since they were created.
These videos can help you to quickly get started using Spine, as well as to explore Spine's advanced features, various workflow and productivity tips, and more.
Overview
Part 1: Setup
Quickly get started with Spine by setting up your assets and creating a skeleton.
Part 2: Animation
Start creating animations using this basic workflow.
Quick Tips
Nate goes through all the small features that will make your experience with Spine smoother.
Features in depth
Pose tool
Quickly manipulate your skeletons with inverse kinematics by using the Pose tool.
Image switching
How to animate which images are shown on your bones and what you can use this for.
Axis control
Precise placement of bones and images relative to the local, global or parent coordinates.
Offset a looped animation
Use copy and paste to quickly and easily offset looped sections of an animation.
Interpolation curves
The graph editor allows you to make your animations more life-like by using linear, bezier or stepped curves.
Skins
Skins allow animation reuse for characters with the same skeleton but different images. This video shows how to use skin attachments, which are placeholders for images that come from a skin.
Ghosting
Ghosting also known as Onion Skinning allows you to get a good idea of the flow of your animation and more easily tweak your animations. Here is how you use it.
Meshes and FFD
Meshes and Free-Form Deformation allow you to manipulate and animate your images in far more detail, in this video we show you how it's done.
Workshops
Artist Workshop
The Spine Artist Workshop from March, 2013.
Coding Workshop
The Spine Coding Workshop from March, 2013.
Miscellaneous
Alternative skeleton creation
An alternative and fast way for you to set up your skeletons.
Timelapse run cycle
25 minute run cycle animation boiled down to 5 minutes.
Run animation tutorial
This video shows how to do a run animation in Spine. Download the images and other files used in the video here.
Unity setup
How to get your data from Spine to Unity and render it correctly.
IK Constraints
This video shows how you can use IK Constraints to pin bones into position.
IK example setup
How IK Constraints can be used to set up a character.