Rigging A Character With Duik Bassel In After Effects

Learn Duik Bassel to easily do character animation and Humanoid Character Rigging and improve your motion graphics.

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.2

- How to use all of Duik Bassel Script
- How to rig a human and animal character in After Effects
- What is IK / FK
- Which One to Use and When

What you'll learn

How to use all of Duik Bassel Script
How to rig a human and animal character in After Effects
What is IK / FK
Which One to Use and When
How to rig a head and facial components
how to create a walking animation automatically using duik bassel
how to create a walking
running and bicycling animation manually
how to blend and control your animations by markers
how to create different loops without the knowledge of expression
how to create complex camera movements with duik bassel
And you will have the full support of an instructor who loves teaching

* Requirements

* You DO NOT need any experience with rigging character. This course is for beginners and assumes you don't have any experience with the rigging.
* Some Very Basic Knowledge of Adobe After Effects

Description

You may have the same question that Is it possible to rig a character and then create a walk cycle for it, in the shortest time and easiest way?

To answer this question I have to say: Yes, The Duik Basel script has provided this. With this script you can easily rig your character, just by one click and also you can create walk cycle animation for your character, just by one click. All the expressions and the actions that a person needs to spend hours to do for rigging and animating, Duik does by one click and this feature makes it a powerful script for this purpose.

But it may have happened to you when after spending a lot of time on the Internet to find a complete course of this script, You were faced with incomplete tutorials, each expressing a part and they have never fully explained all the tools in this script.

That’s why, In this course, we want to completely present the last version of Duik script and check all the options in detail with practical examples.


Here some of the techniques you will Learn:

  • you will learn how to create a proper skeleton for Human and Animal character,

  • how to match the skeleton with the character,

  • how to rig your characters using auto-rig tool

  • and how to create a walking animation automatically using walk cycle tool.

  • furthermore, you will learn how to create manually a walking animation, running animation, and bicycling animation.

  • you will learn about many other useful functions and practical tools of Duik script,

  • such as connector tool, that is a great tool for rigging facial components,

  • animation blender tool, that allows you to blend and control your animations by markers,

  • effector tool, that lets you to control multi-layer animations,

  • looper tool, that helps you to create different loops without any expression,

  • copy offset animation option, that allows you to continue your animation simply by copying the keyframes,

  • motion trail tool, that lets you to create a trail for your objects in the shortest possible time,

  • camera tool that is very useful in creating complex camera movements.

  • and so much more!

This is a very practical course, That will give you the Practical knowledge of Rigging and Animating your own characters in adobe After Effects.


With our 30-day 100% money back guarantee, there is nothing holding you back from jumping in right now and trying the course out.

Go ahead and click the enroll button, and start rigging and animating your character for your next animation.

So, I'll see you inside!

Who this course is for:

  • Beginner to Advanced Character Rigging & Animation in the After Effects
  • Animators looking for simple tools to create complex animations
  • Animators who want to learn how to save time in rigging and animating a character
  • Animators who want to rig and animating the characters in easiest way
  • Motion desiners who want to improve their videos.

Course content

1 sections • 43 lectures

Introduction Preview 02:15

In this lesson, we are going to talk about Duik Bassel script and how to download and install it

Structures Panel Preview 24:12

In this lesson, you will learn how to create a proper skeleton for your character, how to match the skeleton with the character and you can download the project files

Auto Rig & IK (Character Rigging) Preview 18:49

In this lesson you will learn What is IK and FK and what type of rigging is best for what kind of skeletons and then learn how to rig your character

Do You Want Learn More and Free Preview 00:30

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Connector Tool (Facial and head rig) Preview 12:15

Connector is a great tool for rigging facial components and lip sync

Animation blender Preview 11:42

This tool allows you to blend and control your animations by markers

Add Bones Preview 05:28

This Tool creates controller for the properties specially pin puppets.

Parent Link Preview 03:21

With this tool you can parent a layer to several layers at different times

Parent across comp Preview 03:16

This tool allows you to parent a layer to another layer outside of its comp

Path Constraint Preview 03:22

With This tool you can move a layer along a path

Position Constraint Preview 01:53

This tool let’s you to parent the position of a layer to another layer, along with some other features

Orientation Constraint Preview 01:18

This tool allows you to parent the rotation of a layer to another layer, along with some other features

Add List Preview 04:49

With this tool you can create several animations for one property

Add Zero and Lock Property Preview 01:52

Add zero sets the value of the properties to zero and lock property is used for locking properties.

Wiggle Preview 07:22

This tool creates wiggle animation for the properties without any expression.

Swing Preview 02:44

This tool can be used to animate a regular swing without any expression.

Wheel Preview 04:15

This tool automates the rotation of the layer depending on its translations.

Randomize Preview 10:42

With this tool you can randomize all kind of things.

Walk Cycle Preview 10:25

With tool you can create automatically walk cycle animation for your character

Effector Preview 03:43

This tool allows you to control the animation of one layer or several layers by an effector

Spring Preview 04:32

This tool will add “follow through”, “overlap”, “overshot” to your animation and it is able to animate automatic bounces.

Blink Preview 01:46

Use the blink to make a property switch regularly between two states.

Move Away Preview 01:46

this tool is a simple cursor, which controls the position and distance of the child layer relative to the parent layer

Paint rig Preview 03:03

This tool allows you to have a better control over your brush strokes

Looper Preview 06:25

You can use the looper to add in and out loops to the animations.

Rename Preview 03:46

This tool for naming.

Search and Replace Preview 03:53

With this tool you can search and replace text in layers name, expression and projects items.

Select Keyframes Preview 04:00

With this tool you can easily select the Keyframes.

Keyframes Panel Preview 18:05

There are many tools in this panel that allow you to control over your Keyframes

FK IK Switch Preview 01:56

This tool, allows you to easily switch between IK and FK

Motion trail Preview 04:15

This tool draws the trajectory of any layer, and makes trails behind or in front of them

X-Sheet Preview 03:18

With this tool, you can create stop motion mode for your animation, or you can change the exposure of your animation

Time ramp Preview 01:17

Time remap is a quick way to activate time remapping on the selected layers while automatically adding some useful expressions.

Extract Controler Preview 00:53

this tool is for extracting the controllers from the precomp.

Cel Animation Preview 02:39

This tool is used in conjunction with After Effects’ paint effect to create traditional hand drawn animations

Camera panel Preview 08:02

There are many tool in this panel that are very useful in creating complex camera movements.

Other Panels Preview 01:20

Walk Cycle Animation Preview 15:00

In this lesson, we’re going to teach you how to create a walk cycle for the character

Run Cycle Animation Preview 13:20

In this lesson, you learn how to create run cycle aniamtion for you character.

Match the Walk cycle with Background Preview 09:26

In this lesson, you learn how to match the walk cycle animation with background to prevent slipping of the character's feet on the floor.

Bicycling Animation Preview 13:45

In this lesson, you learn how to create bicycling aniamtion for you character.

Animal rigging Preview 09:41

In this lesson, we wanna talk about rigging an animal.

Animal Animating Preview 08:34

In this lesson, we wanna talk about how to create an automatic walk cycle animation for the animal