I have a template SVG file for an articulated doll and it looks something like this:
I can manually rotate and pose it in Adobe illustrator, but is there a better workflow to rig 2D segmented assets?
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Sign up to join this communityI have a template SVG file for an articulated doll and it looks something like this:
I can manually rotate and pose it in Adobe illustrator, but is there a better workflow to rig 2D segmented assets?
What you need is a tool like Spriter (https://brashmonkey.com/). It is specifically designed to let you combine components like you have, and create animations from them.
With it or tools like it, you can join your pieces together, then move them about to create poses, or sequences of poses to make an animation.
Here's a video that Brash Monkey has on Spriter that shows how this all works...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrgGhK48Joo
If anyone knows of any other good tools, please feel free to comment. I happened to know Spriter so that's the one I shared.