--- title: A simple procedural animation technique | daily.dev description: Let's design some procedurally animated animals! This video is a tutorial/explanation for a simple procedural animation technique I recently learned about.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-simple-procedural-animation-technique-4itcugxz7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A simple procedural animation technique | daily.dev og:description: Let's design some procedurally animated animals! This video is a tutorial/explanation for a simple procedural animation technique I recently learned about.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-simple-procedural-animation-technique-4itcugxz7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4itCUGxZ7.png og:image:alt: A simple procedural animation technique og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A simple procedural animation technique **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 8 min read · 21 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Let's design some procedurally animated animals! This video is a tutorial/explanation for a simple procedural animation technique I recently learned about. Essentially, it's animation rigging using a 2D chain simulation. I provide an animated explanation of the technique, then showcase a few animals I animated with it. Source code ↪ Simulations written in Java using Processing. ↪ https://github.com/argonautcode/animal-proc-anim Inspired by this cool explainer on different types of constraints: https://zalo.github.io/blog/constraints/ Socials ↪ Twitter: https://twitter.com/argonautcode Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:43 Distance Constraint 01:20 Chained Constraints 02:03 Body Shape 02:36 Parametric Equations 03:09 Procedural Snake 03:40 Angle Constraint 04:07 Procedural Snake II 04:24 Procedural Fish 05:36 Inverse Kinematics 07:13 FABRIK Leg 07:46 Procedural Lizard 08:08 Outro Music Castles in the Sky - Scott Buckley ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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