Ah sorry – I appreciate the help. I’ve been wrestling with it for too long too. I tired having nulls follow the path and giving each segment layer average position and rotation values of every two adjacent nulls, which kind of works, but not perfect..

This new version you made looks promising. Will have a play with it. Cheers!

I appreciate your reply but your snake has broken one of the cardinal snake rules!:

“The segments must be truly articulated and always fixed at their joint/hinge points. No overlapping or drifting…”

The project you shared has all the joints overlapping and drifting around as highlighted here and not fixed at the corners. It does seem very tricky…

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I’m trying to animate a 2d snake along a path, where just like in the photo, the snake is made of rigid articulated segments. I haven’t found a guide on how to exactly achieve this where it follows these rules:

•The segments cannot warp or be elastic.

•The segments must be truly articulated and always fixed at their joint/hinge points. No ove…

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