Bone Tool error animate

Use layer parenting instead. works much better than the bone tool. https://youtu.be/_o4O_A5WGVc

Don't even bother with Animate's Bone tool: it is riddled with bugs and limitations, and generally unusable in production. I would have a look at the Flanimate tool set instead to rig characters in Animate.

https://flash-powertools.com/

Thanks for reaching out. You are facing issue because of below reasons

• You get "shape is too complex" warning dialog because of large number of anchor points in the shape which cannot be rigged currently. It does not happen with less compex shape with lesser anchor points
• You can only rig a moviclip(any symbol) to another symbol and you cannot create rig within it to deform.

I have raised a bug for the issue you are facing. We are working on enhancing the bone tool workflow. We will keep you posted once there is an update.

Meanwhile as a workaround you can follow below steps

1. Convert the character's shape to a bitmap

2. Break the bitmap

3. Try to rig it with bone tool

or

1. Try using Asset warp tool and check if it works for your usecase.

Thanks!