Description

Duik is a free and open source character rigging and animation tool set. It facilitates 2D cutout character, props, and camera animation. Duik creates rigs which allow the animator to manipulate the characters in a very intuitive way.

Its comprehensiveness, ease of use, and 15 years of continuous innovation have made it the leading tool and the industry standard for rigging and animation with Adobe After Effects.
It has an international success; it is used to create TV series, advertising, motion design, video games, music videos, short movies and feature films.
It is used in many companies all around the world.

Duik is released under a free license. That means it is free, of course, but it also means that its source code is publicly available, like important and well-known software such as the Firefox web browser, or the Linux operating system, or the less known but most important OpenSSL library which secures all communications over the internet…

This book contains the complete source code of Duik.

It’s a manifesto for free and open source software. It’s a way to physically show how open source software is different from other software, to show and explain how important it is, how even this small free software may weigh to change the world.

Maybe it’s also a work of art.

Maybe you can just use it to wedge some furniture.

Editor’s note: A cheaper (and more environment-friendly) abridged version of this book is available: Duik Ángela: The API Source Code. It’s the same content except that the code part contains only the API, in an attempt to make the book smaller. After all, the actual interesting part is not the code, but the text accompanying it.