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Rigging a Character in After Effects for Animation

Ok, so you prepared a character in illustrator and you want to animate it inside after effects. The problem is that you have to put every single piece of the body in a new position and that can be...

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Course Description

Ok, so you prepared a character in illustrator and you want to animate it inside after effects. The problem is that you have to put every single piece of the body in a new position and that can be very tedious. Even for simple movements, like weaving good bye to a friend. You need to do a bunch of clicks and repositioning each single part. Well, there is a faster way to do it. You c...

Ok, so you prepared a character in illustrator and you want to animate it inside after effects. The problem is that you have to put every single piece of the body in a new position and that can be very tedious. Even for simple movements, like weaving good bye to a friend. You need to do a bunch of clicks and repositioning each single part. Well, there is a faster way to do it. You can connect each part of the body, so you can move it easily, with just a few clicks and drags.

What you’ll learn
  • How to rig a character inside after effects.
  • How to set forward kinematics: So you can move your character easily, without having do draw each frame
  • How to set up inverse kinematics: An advanced mathematical formula that lets you control your character easily, and all done automatically without you having to scratch your head figuring out any formula.
  • The clear difference between Forward Kinematics, and Inverse Kinematics, two concepts that a lot of animators are not familiar with.
  • How to set up replacement animation: A technique in which you can change for example, the mouth of your character, to express different phonemes, so then, you can add some lip sync.

Covering Topics

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Section 1 : Introduction to Rigging a Character
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Section 2 : Rigging The Character
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Section 3 : Finishing Off

Curriculum

      Section 1 : Introduction to Rigging a Character
1
What You Will Learn In This Course Preview
2
Download After Effects
3
Download Duik 15
4
Import The Character
      Section 2 : Rigging The Character
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Set Up Joints Preview
6
Set Up Forward Kinematics
7
Pre Compose Layers for Replacement Animation
8
Fixing PreComp Sizes
9
Set Up Joints and Forward Kinematics for Pre Comps
10
Set up Inverse Kinematics
11
Set Up Switch Layer Preview
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Set Up L_Hand PreComp for Replacement Animation
13
Set Up Time Remap
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Set Up Switch for Replacement Animation
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Set Up Mouth for Lip Sync
      Section 3 : Finishing Off
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Extra Details Preview
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Extra Tip for animating Replacement Animation
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Conclusion

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