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The Duik Ángela Video User Guide (en/fr)
All the theory about Duik Ángela!
Ce tutoriel est aussi disponible en français.
Table of contents | Installation & Getting started | Introduction and overview | It’s All about Bones | Pins, Puppet tool, and Bézier paths | The Auto-rigger, the Controllers, the limbs and the IK… | A Mechanical Arm and a Train… | Procedural animation, Automations | The Connector | The Key Morph | Quadruped: Rig and Animate a Cat | Animation Tools | Non-Linear Animation | Camera Tools | Additional Tools
Date
2022
Duration
05 h 07 mn 30 s
price
Free
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Simple Character
Format: Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects 2022. Design by Nicolas Dufresne.
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Simple Human
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NLA Demo
Format: Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects 2022. Design by Nicolas Dufresne.
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Mountain Landscape
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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: 16 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: 42 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 Noodles
- Bone Tools
- A Complete Character with Noodles
- OCO Metarigs
- Bone the Emu!
Pins, Puppet tool, and Bézier paths
Duration: 18 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: 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: 0 mn
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to rig mechanics.
This tutorial is only available in the official comprehensive video course about Duik Ángela…
Procedural animation, Automations
Duration: 28 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 and animate a Robot
The Connector
Duration: 34 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
- Facial Rig
- Advanced Arm: Rig and Parent Across Comps
- Advanced Arm
The Key Morph
Duration: 14 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
Quadruped: Rig and Animate a Cat
Duration: 0 mn
In this tutorial, you will learn to rig and animate a cat.
This tutorial is available in the official comprehensive video course about Duik Ángela…
Animation Tools
Duration: 32 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 30 s
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