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The Official and Comprehensive Video Course about Duik Ángela (en/fr)

Learn everything about Duik Ángela in After Effects!

Ce tutoriel est aussi disponible en français.

Date

More than two years ago

Duration

11 h 08 mn

price

Suggested Price: 75,00 €

By

Duduf

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The official course about Duik Ángela, by Duduf, the developer of Duik himself.

In this 11-hour Video Course, you’ll learn everything about Duik Ángela!
Et cette formation est aussi disponible en français.

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

All the character and prop files we’re going to rig and animate.

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.

Table of Contents

Installation & Getting started

Duration: 18 mn

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to install Duik, either for all users of the computer (if you have administrative rights) or for the current user.

We’ll also take a tour of the UI and the available settings, before learning how to use the simple yet powerful Notes panel.

  • Install Duik and First Look
  • Settings
  • Duik Notes
  • Keyboard Shortcuts and the Duik API
Introduction and overview

Duration: 17 mn

In this tutorial, you will learn the basics of the character rigging and animation process in Duik Ángela, from the creation of the armature to the animation of a walk cycle transitionning to a run cycle.

You’ll see that it takes less that 15 minutes to rig and animate a complete character!

  • Create the armature
  • Parent layers
  • Autorig
  • Extract controllers
  • Walk and Run cycles
It’s All about Bones

Duration: 1 h 34 mn

In this tutorial, we’ll take a comprehensive tour of the bones of Duik, which are the core of the rigging process. Creation, settings, envelops, noodles, you’ll learn everything about them!

  • Several ways and options to create bones
  • Predefined armatures for all kinds of limbs
  • Bone Settings
  • Bone Envelops
  • Bone Noodless
  • Bone Tools
  • A Complete Character with Noodles – Creation
  • A Complete Character with Noodles – Rig
  • OCO Metarigs
  • Bone the Emu!
Pins, Puppet tool, and Bézier paths

Duration: 55 mn

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Duik Pins to control any After Effects spatial property like puppet pins, and Bézier paths too.

  • Two Puppet Engines
  • Spatial Pins
  • Rig The Ghost
  • Bézier Pins
  • Create a Rubber Arm
  • Pin the Emu!
  • Parent the Emu!
The Auto-rigger, the Controllers, the limbs and the IK…

Duration: 1 h 40 mn

In this tutorial, you’ll learn everything about the almighty Auto-Rigger in Duik!

  • Introduction
  • Options
  • Controller Options and Custom Controllers
  • The Arm, and all the IK settings and properties
  • Foreshortening and stretch
  • All types of legs
  • Wings
  • Tails
  • Fish
  • Rig the Emu
  • Emu stroke and details
  • Walk the Emu!
  • Complete Rig of a Human with Stretch and Foreshortening
A Mechanical Arm and a Train…

Duration: 56 mn

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to rig mechanics.

  • Mechanical Arm and Cogs
  • Pistons
  • Cables
  • The Wagon
  • Animate the parenting
Procedural animation, Automations

Duration: 57 mn

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use the procedural animations in Duik!

  • Wiggle
  • Swink
  • Reinvent the Wheel
  • Move Away and Motion Trail
  • Random Motion
  • Ferris Wheel
  • Kleaner
  • Rig a Robot
  • Rig the Antenna
  • Animation and Kleaner
The Connector

Duration: 1 h 40 mn

In this tutorial, you will learn everything about the multipurpose Connector.

*Note: after this tutorial’s been recorded, the user interface of the connector was simplified a bit. There’s no “next” button anymore to connect the properties after having set up the master property, the connection buttons are available in the same panel.

  • Sliders, Expose Transform, Layer List
  • Effector and Textures
  • Audio Connector
  • Rig an Arm with the Connector, and Multiple Connections
  • Introduction to the Facial Rig
  • Connect the Eyes
  • Connect the Eyelids
  • The Mouth
  • Head Turn
  • Advanced Arm: Rig and Parent Across Comps
  • Advanced Arm: Arm, Forearm and Hand Connections
  • Advanced Arm: Fixes and Modifications after the Connections
The Key Morph

Duration: 41 mn

In this tutorial, you will learn to create, rig and animate facial expressions, lipsync, head turns, and much more, using the Key Morph.

  • Introduction
  • A Simple Head
  • An Advanced Head: Rotations
  • An Advanced Head: Expressions
  • An Advanced Head: Controllers
Quadruped: Rig and Animate a Cat

Duration: 25 mn

In this tutorial, you will learn to rig and animate a cat.

  • Rig the Cat
  • Animate the Cat
Animation Tools

Duration: 40 mn

In this tutorial, we’ll discover all the animation tools of Duik Ángela.

  • Select Keyframes, Copy and Paste Animation
  • Interpolator
  • Anchor Points, Align Layers, Snap Keyframes, IK/FK Switch
  • Tweening Tools
  • Tween the Emu
  • Interpolation
  • Animation Library
  • Klean the Emu
  • Sequence
  • X-Sheet
  • Cel/Traditional Animation
Non-Linear Animation

Duration: 21 mn

In this tutorial, you’ll learn what is the revolutionnary Non-Linear Animation feature of Duik, and how to use it.

  • Introduction and demo
  • How to setup and use the NLA
Camera Tools

Duration: 18 mn

In this tutorial, we’ll discover all the camera tools of Duik Ángela.

  • Framing Guides
  • 3D Camera
  • 2D Camera
Additional Tools

Duration: 26 mn

In this tutorial, we’ll discover all additional and very useful tools of Duik Ángela.

  • Composition Tools
  • Layer Manager
  • Text Tools
  • Dev Tools (Scripts and Expressions)
  • DuSan: Monitoring and Sanity of the Project