Bone Tool Animation (Adobe Flash Tutorial)

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[TheArtofGuitar]

I gave up on the Bone Tool because I had to nest something within it and it wouldn't let me without major headaches. It's probably me doing something wrong but I just couldn't grasp it. :(

[ReaperSound]

Not really a question but a tip. If your using the Bone tool in between the bone itself go to properties and you can sort of limit the angle instead of a free rotation. essentially making knee and elbow joints. 

[JustSimplyMatt]

Hey Jazza, been watching your tutorials for a while as I've been trying to learn how to animate a little easier and your tutorials have been very helpful. Keep them coming! (also, I'm sorry to see your comments section turn in to the anti-Google+ battlefield with stick figure tanks and such)

[FanimationGR]

hey there teacher! you can move individual bones holding down Shift key

[mohawkade]

The bone tool does has it's uses and I've found that it distorts much less if you have each part on it's own layer.

[matthewaugustin]

Don't use the bone tool. It limits you way more than it can help you. I know its disappointing, but this kind of short cut is not used in big animation studios because it is more trouble than its worth.

[Nick]

Using bones is really useful for stick figures, and can make an animation for them extremely fast and easy, but it can cause some trouble. Also, there is a bone tool - tool that allows you to say what parts of the body you want to be affected when you move a certain bone, removing some of the weird deformities. 

[benjieleshansky]

It seems kinda like the entirety of "South Park" could be made with this

[jacob]

ive only watched your channel for 3 months but ive learnt so much just ordered your creating characters book cant wait for it

[SilverHunterN]

Well done for getting to 6 million subs. Keep these lessons coming.

I'm sitting at 4K, and I've been grinding since 2013. You are doing alot better than I.

[Bezlonirslair]

Thanks. I am trying my second animation with Flash, and I am trying out the bone tool with movie clips like you showed.

[Ben-itfk]

Hey, to get a lot more control you can make certain bones fixed by unchecking bone rotation in the bones' properties. For example, you could fix the torso and head with this.

[DanDesignsDreams]

It sucks that I don't have this on my version of flash, I only have CC 2014 and I heard about this and it sounded really helpful since I'm in the middle of making a stickman fight and I was doing it frame by frame and I thought this would be really useful.

[ShatteredGlass]

sometimes i forgot that Jazza has been around for so long

[riisezz]

This was quite the comical tutorial, Jazza. I'm glad I'm not the only one who struggles with the cursed bone tool! I even learned a thing or two while laughing my head off. Thanks!

[TafariMosi]

I don't use the Bone Tool either but for limb control, , you can actually keep i.e., the leg from going into the opposite direction by clicking bone tool properties and in joint rotation you can set the constraints and this will keep your arms and legs from bending in the opposite direction by setting  the degree angles. Hope that helps

[BartoloAnsaldi]

Hi Jazza, you can constrain the joints in a more natural movement, so it becomes less painful to animate the body. In the book "How to cheat in Flash" there are some very good explanations on how to use this tool, but if you are interested in this kind of animation I think After Effects is your best option.

[JordanKiener]

Thanks Jazza! I agree that the majority of the time this isn't the way to go, but it will have it's uses! I'm animating a guy playing guitar, and this will help with the strumming movement of just his right hand (with fretting hand/arm done with both tweens and fbf). Thanks for sharing!

[AngeloFalls]

Im working on a comic tht i would like to be animated but after you showed me the bone tool i can probaly animate this faster! Thanks Jazza! you made this easier for me 

[MrJjasson]

I watched this video like two years ago, and this summer I subed to jazza not knowing it was him in this video. WOW