Bone Tool

In this lesson you will learn to use the bone tool in order to animate individual parts of an object.

• The Bone tool enables you to link symbols together quickly and easily in a parent/child relationship commonly referred to as inverse kinematics. 
• The entire bone structure is also referred to as an armature.
• You can apply an armature to a series of movie clip symbols or to a raw vector shape that can then be manipulated across time by dragging the armature to a new pose.
  

Exercise #1: Moving Leg

Exercise #2: Basic Bone Tool

• Draw a nice big tree
• Select all parts of the tree by clicking Ctrl A
• Select the Bone Tool and create your armature by dragging from the parent symbol to the symbol s you will be animating

Exercise #3: Cat Tail

In this exercise you will animate a tail of a cat by using the bone tool.

The tail and cat need to be drawn on separate layers. Apply the bone structure only to the tail. 

Exercise #4: Animate a back hoe

In this lesson you will practice using the bone tool to animate a back hoe.

1. Download the flash file that contains an image of a back hoe
2. Watch the video tutorial and follow the instructions I Click to see the video tutorial.
3. Come up with an interesting scene for the back hoe
4. Using Frame-by-Frame, animate a growing hole that the back hoe digs

Exercise #5: Runner

In this exercise you will learn to animate a runner using the bone tool. 

1. Watch the animation below and follow the instructions
   
2. Create a complete background scene for your runner (example: buildings, trees, bushes, street....)
3. Use the motion tween to move the person ahead
4. Animation is between 70 and 100 frames long

Assignment

Due date: Friday April 18 2014 (8:00 pm)
In this assignment you have the three choices to create a short animation story that contains text. Your story needs to have at least three scenes. 

Option #1: Re-use Exercise #4

• Create a three scene animation using exercise #4
• Come up with a story that includes the digging back hoe
• Example: You can use the mask tool to pull out things from the hole such as a treasure box...

Option #2: Re-use Exercise #5

• Create a three scene animation using exercise #5
• Come up with a story that includes the runner
• Example: The runner enters the finish line or the runner is running away from somebody

Option #3: Animation story of your choice

• Create a new animation using the bone toll
• You need to have at least three scenes
• The animation needs to tell a story 

ASSESSMENT

• Animation has at least three scenes.............................3 marks
• Proper use of the bone tool...........................................4 marks
• Creative and complete background scene......................5 marks
• Creative use of different animation techniques.................5 marks
• Animation tells a story including text..............................5 marks

                                                                                Total:22 marks