joystick animation

[foli.b]

Hi,

I'm somone that's been a self taught adobe user for the most part. I've created a joystick with a dog as a knob. I'm trying to animate it moving around a little like a joystick but have found no tutorials online. All I've seen are videos of the plugin joystick and slider, or Duik but was wondering if there was a way to do it without paying for that plug in. 

Currently It moves but its not a hard movement like a joystick It's moving like a bendy straw right now.

When I've try the pin took it moves the whole head around in 2d

(i would also appreciate any help if you would know how I could make the joystick bark) 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

[OussK]

I believe that manipulating the joystick's base design to control the rotation and lateral movement and shaping it like a ball or sphere, would simplify the animation process. Currently, it appears that your joystick resembles a cylinder.

[thepixelsmith]

To animate a joystick I would just place the anchor point at the bottom of the layer (where you want it to rotate from) and then animate the rotation property.

You can move the anchor point using the Pan Behind Tool.