Character Rigging & Automating Walk Cycle in After Effects

About this course

Character rigging and animation is an essential part of motion graphics, it brings a lot more fun when you have character animation in your explainer videos and add more life to your videos. However character rigging and walk cycle seems very complicated and hard to understand, a lot of motion designers when they first started are hesitant to try it out. Due to the updates of DUIK, the free character rigging plugin of After Effects, walk cycle is not as hard as it was before and it can also be automated without any keyframes. DUIK free download link can be found on the internet.Today, I will show you the easiest and most efficient way to rig a character and automate a walk cycle. Anyone with basics understanding of After Effects will be able to take this course and follow along.Complete professional workflow from storyboard to final render.( AI to AE workflow)How to prepare and build character in Illustrator before riggingCharacter riggingAutomating walk cycle without any keyframesExport gif fileThis is an introductory course of character rigging and animation, there are a lot of things that we need to cover in this course, so a basic understanding of After Effects will be recommended before taking this course. If you are a beginner and want to learnt After Effects fundamentals, I have other two courses that can help you grasp the basics of After Effects before taking this one.Thanks for taking this course and happy animating!Happy animating!

Course objectives

• understand the character rigging process
• learn to automate animations
• apply professional workflows from storyboarding to final render