Originally published at https://notslot.com/blog/2020/04/spine-8-direction-character-part-2
In the second part of the 8 directions character animation tutorial, we will rig our character in Spine, add mashes to create squishy movement, and organize all the different directions to simplify our work.
Follow along! The download link contains the character’s PSD and the result Spine project of this article: Download Spine & PSD file
Bones, IKs & Mashes
We are going to duplicate and mirror both arm and leg to create the left & right hands in all the directions.
We create the arm-r-control bone and an …