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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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All the theory about Duik Ángela, by Duduf, the developer of Duik himself.
Learn all you need to know about Duik Ángela for free with this extensive reference in video!
Et cette formation est aussi disponible en français.
If you’d like to follow additional practical exercises and download example files, get the official comprehensive video course about Duik Ángela.
Si vous souhaitez aussi avoir de exercices pratiques et pouvoir télécharger des fichiers exemples, suivez plutôt la formation complète et officielle à Duik Ángela.
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!
Table of Contents
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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