# Spine Videos

**Note:** We now have [tutorial videos](/spine-videos) that follow the [Spine User Guide](/spine-user-guide) very closely. The videos below are older and, while they still contain a lot of useful information, some features may have changed slightly since they were created.

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These videos can help you to quickly get started using Spine, as well as to explore Spine's advanced features, various workflow and productivity tips, and more.

## Overview

[youtube:s83x1T5IjxU, Part 1: Setup, Quickly get started with Spine by setting up your assets and creating a skeleton.]

[youtube:Eg7M43MoPu8, Part 2: Animation, Start creating animations using this basic workflow.]

[youtube:RStEv3qFrX0, Quick Tips, Nate goes through all the small features that will make your experience with Spine smoother.]

## Features in depth

[youtube:9VOp7iM4tdo, Pose tool, Quickly manipulate your skeletons with inverse kinematics by using the Pose tool.]

[youtube:2gtn-RfrUnI, Image switching, How to animate which images are shown on your bones and what you can use this for.]

[youtube:UnpT-5Vqw08, Axis control, Precise placement of bones and images relative to the local, global or parent coordinates.]

[youtube:L9JuxJoac6Y, Offset a looped animation, Use copy and paste to quickly and easily offset looped sections of an animation.]

[youtube:irfb77ROMjY, Interpolation curves, The graph editor allows you to make your animations more life-like by using linear, bezier or stepped curves.]

[youtube:xY4m3iNtSUQ, Skins, Skins allow animation reuse for characters with the same skeleton but different images. This video shows how to use skin attachments, which are placeholders for images that come from a skin.]

[youtube:8Ng2n0x95G0, Ghosting, Ghosting also known as Onion Skinning allows you to get a good idea of the flow of your animation and more easily tweak your animations. Here is how you use it.]

[youtube:0Dd2M8XBTo0, Meshes and FFD, Meshes and Free-Form Deformation allow you to manipulate and animate your images in far more detail, in this video we show you how it's done.]

## Workshops

[youtube:62hN3uyRQc4, Artist Workshop, The Spine Artist Workshop from March, 2013.]

[youtube:YvEjbQO9lv4, Coding Workshop, The Spine Coding Workshop from March, 2013.]

## Miscellaneous

[youtube:GS-8i6E4Ocg, Alternative skeleton creation, An alternative and fast way for you to set up your skeletons.]

[youtube:BYXmuLeawE4, Timelapse run cycle, 25 minute run cycle animation boiled down to 5 minutes.]

[youtube:_3REunBvteU, Run animation tutorial, This video shows how to do a run animation in Spine. 
Download the images and other files used in the video [here](/files/diagram.zip).]

[youtube:-V84OIvZdQc, Unity setup, How to get your data from Spine to Unity and render it correctly.]

[youtube:orqb4Hz4rqI, IK Constraints, This video shows how you can use IK Constraints to pin bones into position.]

[youtube:ObsVoEgj7LQ, IK example setup, How IK Constraints can be used to set up a character.]