Ever since I animated using IK manipulators in 3D I wanted to use the same method for animating in 2D. For all the promise that Animate CC held a true IK toolset has been really slow to appear. TO be sure, Layer parenting is a solid, sure fire way to set up characters for animation and the newest layer of the IK toolset is quite nice- but very late. (The "Flash" platform is on version 20!) 0:00 Intro 0:18 Smart Magnet Rigs overview 0:22 Traditional Animation 0:47 Puppet Animation 1:52 Forward Kinematics vs Inverse Kinematics 2:37 2D Rigging in ToonBoom 3:00 Electric Dog's Flash Power Tools Plugin Thanks to a plugin by Electric Dog, many animators' dreams have come true- Effortless 2D rigging with unlimited IK effectors. This is not the only IK game in town, either. ToonBoom and MOHO (Anime Studio) have mature, robust toolsets for IK rigging and animation, but those toolsets are also the hardest to learn and very time consuming to setup. If you've ever set up a 3D character for rigging you literally know that it is just as involved or harder to set up a 2D character as a 3D one! That's pretty crazy. If you're looking for a fast, intuitive, straightforward way to add an IK workflow to your 2D character animation in AnimateCC- you've found it! _______________________________________________ Electric Dog has developed a character rigging toolset promises to catch Adobe Animate up to current and possibly set a new standard of 2D character rigging. I can't fully describe how excited I am about the possibilities of this new toolset but in this short video, I'll try. EDAP Tools are a collection of plugin commands, custom tools, panels and optimized keyboard shortcuts for Adobe Animate. Find out more about Smart Magnet Rigs by Nickolay Tilcheff from the links below: Electric Dog Animate Power Tools (EDAP) Website Electric Dog Animate Power Tools (EDAP) Tools Channel