[No watermark] Say goodbye to stiff animation! The complete AE character rigging guide: Duik+Bao Bones for human/animal/head rigging + 3 lip sync methods, become a pro animator in no time



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Character rigging in After Effects is the key skill that distinguishes stiff animation from smooth professional animation. This course will teach you to use Duik Angela and Bao Bones to complete the full process from basic setup to advanced rigging.

"Rigging Master" is a video course; imjmj.com takes you step by step through character rigging techniques in After Effects. You will start with the fundamentals of how rigging works - building an invisible skeleton structure that gives characters natural and controllable movement. Then the course moves into hands-on sessions with Duik Angela and Bao Bones, two rigging powerhouses widely used in the motion design field.

The course covers a variety of character styles: cutout/collage characters, 2D cartoon characters, jointed characters, flat characters and photo-based characters. The course also includes a complete animal rigging chapter covering quadrupeds. In addition, you will get four dedicated modules for character head rigging in different styles, as well as three independent lip-sync techniques.

You will learn:
- Rig humans, animals, and objects in After Effects using Duik Angela and Bao Bones
- Build head rigs for cartoon, flat, cinematic, and photo-based character styles
- Apply three different lip sync techniques to rigged characters
- Create walk cycle animations and apply the 12 principles of animation to character creation
- Build structural rigs for paper cutout, collage, and jointed character types

Tutorial language: Bilingual subtitles / Chinese and English
Document language: English / Please use AI translation yourself
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Tutorial directory [Note: The titles of the material content are in the original English; the documents have no translation yet; just use AI to translate them yourself]
│ └─Motion Master Academy - Rigging Master
│ │ Lesson 1 - Getting started with the drill platform
│ │ Lesson 10 Character rigging Deadpool style
│ │ Lesson 11 Skinning a female jointed character
│ │ Lesson 12 Flat design for title characters
│ │ Lesson 13 Virtual avatar character guide
│ │ Lesson 14 Character head rigging Jinx style "Arcane"
│ │ Lesson 15 Demonstrating head-mounted gear with real photos
│ │ Lesson 16 Character head rigging 456 "Squid Game" style
│ │ Lesson 17 Creating animal models Giraffe character
│ │ Lesson 18 Creating animal models Dog character
│ │ Lesson 19 Getting started with Bao Bones
│ │ Lesson 2 Building the environment in After Effects
│ │ Lesson 20 Structural rigging for collage-style characters with BaoBones
│ │ Lesson 21 Structural rigging for textured characters with Bao Bones
│ │ Lesson 22 Rigging stylized digital painting characters
│ │ Lesson 23 Technique 01
│ │ Lesson 24 Technique 02
│ │ Lesson 25 Technique 03
│ │ Lesson 26 Character rigging market
│ │ Lesson 27 Planning your final project
│ │ Lesson 28 Animation basics
│ │ Lesson 29 Walk cycle animation
│ │ Lesson 3 How to prepare for character rigging
│ │ Lesson 30 Anime and manga style animation
│ │ Lesson 31 Creating a wizard character animation
│ │ Lesson 32 Character Animation Wolverine Style
│ │ Lesson 33 Rigging Objects with Lighting Equipment imjmj.com
│ │ Lesson 34 Guitar Stand with 360-Degree Rotation
│ │ Lesson 35 Hair Rigging Device
│ │ Lesson 36 Rigging a Stylized Digital Painting Character Guest Part 1
│ │ Lesson 37 Rigging a Stylized Digital Painting Character Guest Part 2
│ │ Lesson 38 Rigging a Stylized Digital Painting Character Guest Part 3
│ │ Lesson 39 Rigging a Stylized Digital Painting Character Guest Part 4
│ │ Lesson 4 Angela Duick Introduction
│ │ Lesson 40 Rigging a Stylized Digital Painting Character Guest Part 5
│ │ Lesson 41 Rigging a Stylized Digital Painting Character Guest Part 6
│ │ Lesson 42 Rigging a Stylized Digital Painting Character Guest Part 7
│ │ Lesson 43 Rigging a Stylized Digital Painting Character Guest Part 8
│ │ Lesson 44 Rigging a Stylized Digital Painting Character Guest Part 9
│ │ Lesson 45 Rigging a Stylized Digital Painting Character Guest Part 10
│ │ Lesson 46 Rigging a Stylized Digital Painting Character Guest Part 11
│ │ Lesson 5 Basic Structure Rigging 2D Character Design
│ │ Lesson 6 Rigging a Wizard Character with Puppet Pins
│ │ Lesson 8 Full One-Hand Equipment Rigging Flexible Fingers and Joints
│ │ Lesson 9 Character Rigging Wolverine Style
│ │ Lesson 7 Collage Style Character Rigging
│      │
│ └─Files
│ Adobe After Effects Auto-Save.zip
│ Lesson 10 - Deadpool Character Rigging.ai
│ Lesson 11 - Female Joint Character Rigging.ai
│ Lesson 12 - Flat Design Character Head Rigging.ai
│ Lesson 12 - Flat Design Character Head Rigging_v2.ai
│ Lesson 13 - Wizard Character Head Rigging.ai
│ Lesson 14 - Jinx Character Head Rigging (Arcane).psb
│ Lesson 15 - Real Photo Head Rigging.psd
│ Lesson 16 - 456 Character Head Rigging (Squid Game).psd
│ Lesson 17 - Giraffe Character.psd
│ Lesson 18 - Dog Character.ai
│ Lesson 20 - Collage Character.psd
│ Lesson 21 - Slash.psd
│ Lesson 31 - Human Wizard Character.ai
│ Lesson 33 - Light.psd
│ Lesson 33 - Light Fixture.ai
│ Lesson 34 - Guitar.psd
│ Lesson 35 - Hair Rigging.psb
│ Lesson 36 - Digital Painting Characters.psb
│ Lesson 6 - Rigging with Puppet Pins - Wizard Character.ai
│ Lesson 7 - Collage Style Character Rigging.psd
│ Lesson 9 - Wolverine Character Rigging.ai
│ Lesson 9 - Wolverine Character Rigging.ai.pdf
│ Lesson 9 - Wolverine Character Rigging_ok.ai
│ Mouth_Lip Sync.ai
│ Ghost Rider Motorcycle.psd
│ Ghost Rider.ai
│ Lesson 22 and Lesson 30 - Anime Style Animated Comics.psd
│ Lesson 5 - Basic Structure Rigging - Flat Design Character.ai
│ Lesson 8 - Full Hand Rigging - Flexible Fingers and Joints.psd
│ Walk Cycle Animation Character imjmj.com.psd
│ Naming Convention Reference.png
│ Wolverine Character Rigging-2.ai
│ Wolverine Character Rigging.ai
│ Wolverine Rigging.aep
│ Wolverine_1.ai
│ Wolverine_2.ai

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