So I have owned Spine Essentials for a while now... but have really not put any time into it, and I am looking for someone that is skilled in Spine and interested in taking on a student, doing screen shares/zoom to bring me up to speed using the tool. This would be a paid project. I am seeking someone that speak English without any harsh accent, (UK/Australia accents are fine)

What I am looking to do is fairly basic, simple animations for monsters in a dungeon game similar to this: https://tinyurl.com/y242pced

I have a large army of creatures i sculpted in Zbrush, and exported the 2D renders, ready to be chopped up in Photoshop and pulled into Spine for very basic idle/attack/hit/death animations. I have attached a few renders of some of the monsters.

if you are interested please drop me a line with your contact info and some examples of your work.

thanks
Sam

It helps. That is what I missed. Thanks

Hello all, and thanks for taking the time to assist a new user.
I just picked up my license for ESS yesterday, and have gone through much of the docs and video tuts.
In the Video for Key Frames (part 1) around the 5 minute mark there is a demo showing a simple bone, being animated / rotating.

So for my first test, I made a simple square block, created a new bone, and connected it to the default bone, and attached my block graphic. in my this test around frame 15 I rotate the block 45 degrees and key frame it. But when I play the animation back or scrub through it.. I am seeing no 'tweening' my block simply stands still, then jumps to the 45 degree mark. I even exported it to .gif files for each frame and can clearly see no tweening, just a static block then the final image it's rotated? My expectation was to see a smoothly rotating block similar to the bone example in the video. Below is my frame by frame output, note static placement, until the final frame where it jumps to the 45 degree position.

So obviously I am doing something wrong.. but can't seem to determine where.
I realize this is the fundamental concept of what Spine does... but sadly I am not figuring it out on my own.. although the tutorial seems straight forward enough... I must be missing a step along the way.

Thanks for any replies.. I am anxious to start animating my artwork... but if i can't even make a block rotate I am screwing something up, or just not familiar enough with the software yet to determine what I am doing, and am stuck scratching my head at the moment.