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Digital - Tutors - Creative Development: Rigging and Animating 2D Characters in After Effects with Daniel Gies
Digital - Tutors - Creative Development: Rigging and Animating 2D Characters in After Effects with Daniel Gies
Run Time: 12h 37m Release Date: September 1, 2012 Author: Dan Gies Required Software: Photoshop CS6, After Effects CS6, Duik Tools ver.13.0.2 and FreeForm Pro Plug-in for CS6
In this After Effects tutorial we will learn how to assemble, rig, and animate a richly detailed and dynamic character inside of After Effects. Throughout these lessons we will see just how powerful After Effects can be when doing advanced character animation. We will venture well beyond the basic paper cutout style of character animation that is often associated with this approach by breaking down the steps required to assemble, rig and animate a richly detailed and dynamic character inside of After Effects. We will start out by reviewing the Photoshop file used to paint the character's layers and quickly move into After Effects where we will begin rigging the character using the puppet tool, null objects, nested compositions, basic expressions, Duik Tools for Inverse Kinematics and FreeForm Pro for the 3D head. By the end of this series you will have a thorough understanding of the many processes behind bringing a layered Photoshop character to life within After Effects.
