Introduction ! · Spine Quest Academy

Introduction !

Hello everyone :D, joining a bit late on the fun but I finally motivated myself enough to start learning spine animation !

What's your name? & Where are you from?

My name is Thibaud, people tend to call me Thibz, and I'm from France 🥖🥐 🇫🇷.

What's your experience with Spine?

None ! I'm basically starting from scratch. It's been months that I wanted to learn how to animate 2D images / assets; yet I was having lots of trouble getting myself motivated to start sadly :/.

What do you want to learn?

Does "Everything" count as an answer? 😅

More seriously, as a total beginner, so, I guess I could say : Understand most of the Spine software's features (duh) ; How does rigging/bones/animation overall work; and then how to bring pictures/assets/artworks to life ; etc...

I guess what question would fit best for me would be among the lines :

What do you want to achieve by learning 2D / 2.5D animation?

Frankly, I'm a self-employed video editor, at first I wanted to try animation as an interesting hobby I could do in my free time. Although, I kept thinking to myself that Spine is quite an expensive purhcase for a hobby, especially if I end up loosing my motivation after a month or two (Granted it's way less expensive long term than the adobe suite lmfao). Fast forward a few months later, work isn't doing so great for me and I'm tired of editing in general, so I'm striving to retrain. Instead of wasting time at home, I thought that now that i've got time for myself, what would be a better timing than starting to learn animating now ! "Worst" case scenario, I get a new passion; best case scenario, I can try finding a career in this field :D.

What ended up being the inspiring & motivating trigger ?

I was playing Honkai Star Rail, and checked their youtube channel, in their short content section (or character trailer full videos when a new one releases) there are lots of amazing 2d animated splasharts; and I thought to myself "Gosh I wanna do the same AAAAAaaaaa-" !

Now I'm planning to get started october first and hoping I'll enjoy the journey🙏