Rigging and Animating Cartoons with Duik and Joysticks

Rigging and Animating Cartoons with Duik and Joysticks, available at $59.99, has an average rating of 4.25, with 43 lectures, based on 59 reviews, and has 351 subscribers.

You will learn about How to rig an image based cartoon character in After Effects with the assistance of Duik and Joysticks n Sliders This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginner animators looking to use an After Effects workflow in their productions or Established animators looking to change pipelines or Beginners looking for an overview to the plugins Duik and Joysticks n Sliders It is particularly useful for Beginner animators looking to use an After Effects workflow in their productions or Established animators looking to change pipelines or Beginners looking for an overview to the plugins Duik and Joysticks n Sliders.

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Summary

Title: Rigging and Animating Cartoons with Duik and Joysticks

Price: $59.99

Average Rating: 4.25

Number of Lectures: 43

Number of Published Lectures: 43

Number of Curriculum Items: 43

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 43

Original Price: $54.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

How to rig an image based cartoon character in After Effects with the assistance of Duik and Joysticks n Sliders

Who Should Attend

Beginner animators looking to use an After Effects workflow in their productions

Established animators looking to change pipelines

Beginners looking for an overview to the plugins Duik and Joysticks n Sliders

Target Audiences

Beginner animators looking to use an After Effects workflow in their productions

Established animators looking to change pipelines

Beginners looking for an overview to the plugins Duik and Joysticks n Sliders

In this course you will learn all about the process of rigging and animating a 2D cartoon character using Duik and Joysticks ‘n Sliders. These two plugins are available for After Effects, which is were the bulk of the work for this course will take place.

More specifically in this course you will learn how to:

Assemble as PSD for layer rigging

Properly import elements and set up comps

Build skeletons, auto-rig, and link layers together

Assemble and rig a Pin-bone based character

Learn how to adjust common animation settings with the Duik panel

Create motion controls with Joysticks

Create reusable actions, such as blinking eyes, with sliders

Create head turns, hand poses and mouth phonemes using Swap Templates

Create reusable actions through the Duik panel

Create a jump animation and place it into a scene to test the rig

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: What You Will Learn in this Course

Lecture 2: Prerequisites for this Course

Lecture 3: Explanation of Exercise Files

Lecture 4: Installing Duik

Lecture 5: Installing Joysticks n Sliders

Lecture 6: Setting Up a Rig-Friendly Workspace

Lecture 7: Adjusting Import Settings for Images

Chapter 2: Rigging with Layers

Lecture 1: Overview of Layer Based Character

Lecture 2: Setting up the After Effects Compositions

Lecture 3: Toggling Duik Settings for More Tools

Lecture 4: Assembling a Hominoid Skeleton

Lecture 5: Zeroing out the Bones

Lecture 6: Attaching Layers to the Skeleton

Lecture 7: Refining Rig Movements

Chapter 3: Rigging with Puppet Pins

Lecture 1: Overview of Puppet Pin Based Character

Lecture 2: Creating Puppet Pins

Lecture 3: Adding Bones to the Pins

Lecture 4: Drawing Skeleton, Rigging and Attaching Bones

Lecture 5: Further Refinement with Bends and Starch Points

Lecture 6: Adding Additional Bones for Hair

Chapter 4: Adding Simple Controls with Joysticks and Sliders

Lecture 1: Swapping Layers Without Plugins

Lecture 2: Creating Movement Joysticks for the Arms and Legs

Lecture 3: Adding Body and Hip Controls

Lecture 4: Creating Movable Eyes

Lecture 5: Sending Joysticks to Parent Comps

Lecture 6: Creating a Blink Control

Lecture 7: Controlling Eyebrow Movement

Lecture 8: Creating Graphical Sliders

Lecture 9: Redoing Bound Actions

Lecture 10: Linking Multiple Actions to One Joystick

Chapter 5: Adding Swap Templates

Lecture 1: Creating Hand Pose Templates with Joysticks

Lecture 2: Creating a Head Turn Joystick

Lecture 3: Swapping Hair Angles

Lecture 4: Interchanging Mouth Poses

Chapter 6: Testing Our Rig with Animation

Lecture 1: Exporting and Importing Duik Animations

Lecture 2: Lip Syncing with Character Animator

Lecture 3: Setting Up an Animation with Duik

Lecture 4: Building More Animation Keyframes with Duik

Lecture 5: Finishing an Animation with Duik

Lecture 6: Supplementing Duik Actions with Joysticks

Lecture 7: Incorporating Character Animation into a Scene

Chapter 7: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Exporting Your Animation

Lecture 2: Final Thoughts

Instructors

Chad Troftgruben
Freelance animator and screencaster

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