Dragging and rotating a Rigidbody2D (Limbs with HingeJoint). Shadow Play / Puppetry Simulation

Yes, they are correctly set up. Two legs attached to hip and hip attached to upper body. Legs are children of the hip and hip is children of the upper body. $$anonymous$$iddle point of the upperbody is placed on the hole to move them from that point. It helped me to add the target/spring joint exactly at that hole. $$anonymous$$y question is: how can I move/drag the body staticly, not bouncy as if they are hold by an elastic string. There must be way, which allows to move the puppet as if I hold them with the sticks like in the picture above staticly and rotate them like the rolling the sticks back and fort.

While the movements you are after might seem simple, its actually kind of complex. I notice that the feet are planted with knees bending, backs bending, heads and arms are loosely connecting. This all reminds me of inverse kinematics. Something you want isnt exactly rotating the joints themselves, but having control nodes that represent parts of the body. It is standard practice in 3D animation to create a rig for the 3D model. Check out this video to understand what I am talking about. https://youtu.be/uQFzqI3WO7I?t=35s

The reason is, its tedious and more difficult to select and rotate joints/bones, so a controller is made. I think this is something you would want to do as well. If you look at it, the idea is super similar. 3D animation is a lot like recording a puppet moving. Like I said before, I understand youre aiming for 2D, but the idea behind what you want is extremely similar to what I just mentioned.

Take a look at these unity assets. They might give you some ideas.

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/48977. https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/14290

And, unity does have inverse kinematics (I$$anonymous$$), but as a pro only feature : https://docs.unity3d.com/$$anonymous$$anual/Inverse$$anonymous$$inematics.html

Again, I realize this is aimed at 3d, but you can for sure use it in 2D space if set up properly. This is the type of stuff you will want to implement and use in your project. So what you would do is have the controllers, or effectors, be the things you are moving/controlling and they influence the joints/bones associated.