2D Character Animation Rig Demo : Motion 5

[marcomiceli]

Really amazing that you offer this for free. Thank you so much.

[NunzioSaggio]

Ciao Simon tu sei un MITOO, Complimenti sei davvero BRAVISSIMO

[giri.goyo_yt]

This is amazing and exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for your hard work.

[stevepawley]

Would love to see a tutorial on how to make this sort of rig

[giri.goyo_yt]

Will this be available as a free template with a tutorial? That would be super!

[createwithaffinity]

Thanks, Have you not thought about taking this further and turning it into a full on animation creation tool?

[SimonUbsdell]

There's now a link to a free download of the Motion project in the description above. You can easily edit the shapes for the individual parts and the rig will still work fine.

[createwithaffinity]

Wow, that is awesome. I recently found goanimate and powtoon's and thought what would it be like if Motion had that built in. This is on the right path especially for explainer videos.

How would you go about creating your own body parts and changing them, I guess using rigging you could create a whole set of parts to animate. Can you send me a copy?

Would love to see this developed further...

[createwithaffinity]

Overall, the idea is to create what you've done but with full toon characters, which could be used as some sort of generator toon pack for Motion and FCPX, a big goal but sure there is a way.

[createwithaffinity]

Hi Simon,

Yes I do, tried myself but was limited with the image I was using, maybe you can help. From the site tooncharactersdotcom I purchased a character ultimate pack which includes the vectors, opened in illustrator and then exported the individual body parts and then put into motion and tried to link up but had some difficulty. Basically would love to have as much control over those toon characters in motion for things like explainer videos etc.

[SimonUbsdell]

Any ideas for what else could be done with this?

[mrbrokenmonkey]

I never used Motion 5 before, but I've rigged and animated characters in similar fashion using After Effects, and briefly (long time ago) in Flash as well. I'm curious to know if you ever made rigs in any other programs and if you have any opinions to share on the differences. By the way, here's an example of the characters I've animated. It was mainly looping animations (idles, walks), but I found that you can make quite a variety of them with the right illustrations and rigs. Like the animations at the end for instance.

[SimonUbsdell]

should all be very easy to achieve with this rig - if you contact me direct (via my website) then I can give you some more specific direction with it.

[queekao]

Can't find profile!!!
Please re-upload 🙏🙏

[mgilb]

F* simon! your videos blow my mind! I'm always looking for ways to use motion rather than aftereffects and somehow each time i find myself on your channel.

[karlamichelle]

cool how you did this i been trying to learned how for a long time now

[karlamichelle]

is motion 5 as powerful and easy to use as after effects ?

[OgglemcSly]

While this is impressive, there’s one MAJOR flaw. Any useful character rig uses IK (Inverse Kinematics) for the legs. You wouldn’t be able to animate this rig effectively for a large range of movements without IK, or essentially frame by frame work.