Inhale – To engage the powerhouse and hinge the extended legs in towards the chest as far as a neutral pelvis allows. The legs are in parallel with the feet pointed.
Push both legs away from the body until they are extended to around 45 degrees or lower or wherever a neutral pelvis allows. Gently take the other foot off the footbar and place the strap around this foot. Keep the carriage still with that leg by maintaining an even tension in the strap. Bend the other leg towards the chest and place the strap around the foot, close to the heel.
Perform a single leg plie to extend this leg fully. Lie supine on the carriage and place one foot on the footbar. Be sure to follow for updates when we post new tutorials on YouTube (opens new window).This is a lovely choreographed sequence, which stretches the hamstrings, allows for sequential articulations of the spine and works the core, glutes, adductors and quads. I would love to hear your thoughts on Twitter (opens new window). The same process can be applied in any environment with Spine runtime support, like Unreal. In the next part, we will create a script to integrate Spine with Unity.
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So we select the hold animation for track 1, and the Idle or Walk animation for track 0.īe sure to download the Spine file from the link at the article’s beginning. The upper layer will override the bottom layer. We use the tracks at the Preview window to see how our animations are overriding. Any other random keyframes may override something important in the Idle or the Walk animation. It is important to make sure the holding animation contains only the keyframes we use for the holding. We create an animation with the relevant keyframes for the holding action and override it with either the Walk or the Idle animations. To create the hold animation, we are using Track Overriding. This animation will need some VFX, like a smudge for the sword, but I will save that for another time.
We copy the animation to create the other directions, using the direction bank to rearrange the bones and switch to the relevant direction attachments. Next comes the bending forward, and the jump, while holding the sword with both hands. The animation starts with one of the legs up in the air, and a hand swinging the sword back. The character will swing the sword, and bang it against a lower enemy on the ground.
In the Spine project, click on Images → Refresh to see the sword image.ĭragging this image to the Setup mode will create a Slot for the sword.Īs this character is going to hold the sword with its hands, we created a new bone for the sword and placed it under the left hand. To add the sword to our Spine file, place the. I choose to create the sword only from the front view, but if you are looking for a more realistic approach, I recommend creating five different attachments for this sword – specific for each direction. Off-camera, I created this sword attachment. In this part, we will add a weapon to our character and animate an attack animation, and create a sword holding animation to be combined with our Idle and Walk animations by code.įollow along! The download link contains the character’s PSD and the result Spine project of this article: Download PSD file Adding New Attachment