Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
This mini video tutorial from 2Dgameartguru.com uses the easy-to-pose stickman from an earlier video to create a run animation in Inkscape v1.3.
Inkscape is not an animation software but you can create animation frames [as well as parts for skeletal animations] with it. In this video, I will animate the stickman using onion skinning and keyframes before adding in-betweens for a more fluid run animation.
I use the Batch Export and Selections. Selecting the layers and a background rectangle to get frames with the same dimensions.
I used ezgif for my gif animations:
ezgif.com
See more Inkscape and Affinity Designer tutorials on the website at http://2dgameartguru.com.
Music from Audio Library Plus https://www.audiolibrary.plus/
‘Santana’ by ‘Ason ID’
This mini video tutorial from 2Dgameartguru.com uses the easy-to-pose stickman from an earlier video to create a run animation in Inkscape v1.3.
Inkscape is not an animation software but you can create animation frames [as well as parts for skeletal animations] with it. In this video, I will animate the stickman using onion skinning and keyframes before adding in-betweens for a more fluid run animation.
I use the Batch Export and Selections. Selecting the layers and a background rectangle to get frames with the same dimensions.
I used ezgif for my gif animations:
ezgif.com
See more Inkscape and Affinity Designer tutorials on the website at http://2dgameartguru.com.
Music from Audio Library Plus https://www.audiolibrary.plus/
‘Santana’ by ‘Ason ID’
![Inkscape Tutorial - Game Art & Character Design - Refine an Game Character Concept [part 2]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SXebiRyGif0/mqdefault.jpg "Inkscape Tutorial - Game Art & Character Design - Refine an Game Character Concept [part 2]
This video tutorial from 2Dgameartguru.com continues with the changes and additions to the caveman game character from the previous video.
The video explains how to easily and quickly add more depth and detail to your game character in Inkscape. After working on the head in part1, we polish the separate body parts in this video to create some game-ready assets that look good and work in animation software like Spine, Spriter, or Dragon Bones [to name just a few of the tools available for skeletal based animation for games].
Most of the content covered here can be created with other software tools such as Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, or others with minor alterations and different names for the tools used.
See more Inkscape and Affinity Designer tutorials on the website at http://2dgameartguru.com.")
