DUIK Angela Jumpstart \\ Complete Beginner's Guide

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Duik Ángela is here, and I've got the complete guide to help you start rigging and animating characters in After Effects! Character rigging and animation is a complicated subject that takes a lot of practice to get the hang of, which is why it's so important that you really understand what you're doing before you start. Fortunately, I've created this complete beginner's guide to rigging and animating your first character using Duik Ángela. You're going to learn what kinds of considerations you need to make when designing a character for rigging, how to build a skeleton using Duik's bones system, how to automatically rig the character with Duik's auto-rig feature, the best way to clean up your rigged comp for easy access to only the controls you need, and how to use Duik's auto walk and run cycles feature to animate your character. It's a lot, but it's all here. I promise that once you're done watching this tutorial you'll have a firm grasp on everything you need to rig and animate your own characters in After Effects.

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:43 Character Artwork Prep
06:34 Setting Up After Effects
11:23 OCO Meta-Rigs
14:06 Creating Bones
15:48 Placing Bones Automatically
21:05 Bones From a Path
23:42 Creating a Spine
25:33 Leg Bones
27:06 Auto-Rigging Your Character
28:30 Rig & Comp Cleanup
31:30 Rig Controls
38:48 Auto-Walk/Run Cycles
41:24 Walk-Run Cycle Parameters
44:34 Adjusting the Arms Rotation
47:07 Correcting Knee Pops
48:27 Animating Your Character
51:45 Transitioning to a Run
55:54 Wrap Up

[JakeInMotion]

What's your favorite new feature of Duik? What else do you want to know about?

[na_rybka]

It's insane how much one can learn in an hour, my character animations went from only parenting and rotating everything manually to full on automating 85% of the process thanks to you! I'm so thankful for your tutorials, please don't die 🙏

[PidamDesai]

I have no words to express that how much this tutorial has helped me. My client is sitting on my ass for some mascot animations and Jake thanks a ton for this tutorial. Love from India

[AmyHollen]

I'm not even 5 minutes in yet, and I can tell how much love went into this tutorial just by the way the character is segmented and labeled in a nice little visual animation just for the audience.

[melkiyounes]

i don't think i can even begin to explain to you how useful this tutorial is, i've just learned more things in one hour than i did in the past few months. THANK YOU!

[VincenzoDelafonte]

I can’t thank you enough for this incredible tutorial! The guilt of not being able to express my appreciation fully is going to stay with me forever. Truly amazing work!

[अघोर]

From workspace setup to animating. This is a true beginner friendly tutorial. Thank you

[thisarajayasekaranayakenz]

You explained duik angela way better than any other YouTubers

[hoozn]

"... just like Ben Marriot would want it" made my day 😆

[FarhanaSadiaJisa]

Jake you don't know how much you've taught me! I'm just a beginner and was suffering a lot about how to do this motion or that motion. I was so interested to learn character animation but couldn't help myself. Last couple of days I was trying for this tutorial and you know what! Today I've successfully animated your Reece....! Your precise teaching taught me a lot. Thanks Buddy !

[BogiNBGD]

Man, you are the king! I'm a big fan of your tutorials, this one is so easy to catch up, pace of your narrative is just perfect! Thank you!

[SillyMooseMedia]

Thank you, Jake, for this extremely helpful tutorial. I just found one thing that can save a few seconds in this workflow. Starting at around 37:42, you show how to hide the controller anchor points by searching the layers for "size", selecting them all, and setting them to zero. A faster way is to use the Controller Settings in DUIK to set the anchor size, icon color, size, etc. all at once.

[tiffanywytte]

JAKE you make my favorite videos. A year ago I was saying to myself "I hate After Effects" but you really keep me coming back to AE and having fun with it when i do. Even when I already know something, like DUIK, watching your videos are always compelling and give me some nice little food for thought when coming back to rigging in after effects.
Seriously I cannot express my appreciation for you and your videos enough!

[yusufjolaoso]

This is fantastic I must say. From the layers labeling, duplications, and keyframes. I must say I enjoyed the tutorial. I am lucky to stumble on your page less than 3 hours, but this first tutorial glued me to your page. A FAN!!!

[professora]

Woo-Hooo! What a tutorial - Right on point without "ehms", "ooopses" and "lets seeee...one second". Brilliant - and a big Thank you!

[andrewbui]

“Get up and running” hehe good one. Jake dropped another amazing tutorial!

[OFGAnimationStudio]

Thank you Jack for sharing and explaning new features of DUİK :))

[ABCBodyartHouston]

this has been soooo helpful. i was wasting a ton of time with a clunky workflow. this has been super helpful

[utasama]

I use Moho for animation and rigging, but when I saw the Walk Cycle, I was convinced to make my life easier by using Duke Angela, Thanks for the tutorial.

[liquidgrafixs]

Halfway this tutorial and i love how you took the time to promote DUIK and encourage to donate to the creator of this beautiful plugin!
I love your teaching style Jake, great work!!