Flash inverse kinematics tutorial

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Learning goals

• Insert bones in shapes
• Connect symbols with bones
• Create a motion animation with bones
• Attach envelope points to bones

Flash level

• Flash CS4

Prerequisites

Moving on

• See the Flash tutorials

Level and target population

• Beginners

Quality

• low (just started)

Adding armatures to shapes

• Create a new layer
• Draw a shape or a simple drawing in object mode. Make sure to finish the drawing, later you only can adjust its shape.

Add a bone

• Select the bone tool
• Click inside the shape and drag a bone
• Click at the end point of a bone an drag again
• etc.

Kill bones

Adjust

• Use the subselection tool to move

Links

Introductions

• Flash Downunder - The Bone Tool and the Deco Tool