This tutorial is a part of the official comprehensive course about Duik Ángela, by Duduf, the developer of Duik himself.

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In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to rig and animate a whole character, including the facial rig.

This tutorial was recorded for people already comfortable with After Effects who want to learn how to use Duik Ángela to rig and animate characters. It is not a good idea to learn Duik if you don’t already know After Effects well enough!

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to rig and animate the character, including the facial rig. This is a way to discover and learn many different tools in Duik:

• Bones
• Pins
• Auto-rig
• Kleaner
• Connector

You’ll learn how to use your own custom controllers with the auto-rigger. You’ll see how you can have a nice foreshortening on the stretchy legs, even if the layers aren’t shape layers. You’ll learn how to rotate the head in 2.5D using the powerful connector, as well as how to control mouth shapes and the eyes with it. And you’ll learn how you can use the Kleaner to help your animation with a lot of details using just linear keyframes!

Intended Audience

This tutorial was recorded for people already comfortable with After Effects who want to learn how to use Duik Ángela to rig and animate characters. It is not a good idea to learn Duik if you don’t already know After Effects well enough!

Included in this tutorial

The character files are included. These files use After Effects 2022: it works with all versions more recent, but you won’t be able to open them with an older version of After Effects.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to rig and animate a whole character, including the facial rig.