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Duik 15, Autorig Tutorial by Wesley Meeks

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Wesley Meeks shows you how to set up a simple character for use with the Autorig in Duik 15. Duik is a script with flexible rigging tools comparable to what 3D animators are used to working with. Kinematics, bones, controllers, and deformers are all bundled into this little slice of sunshine. Duik 15 affords the user even more control to refine animated Ae characters.

Wesley is an animator, designer and not afraid to show his 3d chops. In this tutorial, Wesley walks us through the setup of an adorable character using the autorig in Duik 15. And because he’s a nice guy, Wesley included his project file so you can easily follow along, and have a character rigged within the hour.

I don’t tend to autorig much. I prefer a bit more customization, and I find very few autorigging tools work well. But let me tell you, I’m impressed with how well the autorig works in Duik 15. It is kinda magic.

Go test it right now for free. Donations encouraged. See if you like it, then turn around to your friend, and say:

Hey Adam, I have a project I’d like to work on together.

And when he’s all:

No way man, I am cheap! You are not gonna trick me into buying a script I know nothing of.

You can be like:

Listen up! This shit is free, okay? How about you shy the attitude, and sit down with Wesley Meeks’ tutorial. You might just learn something.”

Bam!

You got your independent animators, corporate motion designers, and even ole’ aunt Bess out there downloading the script and learning to animate like the cool kids do.

https://vimeo.com/141359966 ‪

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AE Help! How do you link comps like references in Maya?

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If you want the internet to care put a cat on it.

How do you link comps across Ae projects like References in Maya?

I learned character rigging in Autodesk Maya. Now, I’m teaching myself character rigging in After Effects and I want to learn a good workflow for a complex file structure. I’m used having a folder structure wherein there are set folders for scene files, props, and rigs each containing project files one can import as a reference. This way any changes to the rig file will be applied in all scene files referencing the rig. BOOM! Magic stuff.

I done googled this for 25 hours and no luck. I believe shows like ‪#‎Archer ‬use After Effects for character animation. I have yet to find resources online that can point me on how to accomplish a comparable animation workflow like what I understand to use in Maya.

Lynda.com has some wonderful introductory training but it doesn’t quite have the necessary training materials for advanced concepts in 2D character animation. I noticed this in their tutorials for Toon Boom and Cinema 4D as well.

So, as one working on a short film in After Effects with the express purpose for learning more about Ae Character animation where can I turn to answer this question and ones like it?

Please leave your helpful comments!

paz,

epi

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SOLVED! AE DUIK HELP: Disappearing Ik objects

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WOOT! Update on a previous post about an issue with the ik objects in my duik rig disappearing when I moved the root and supermover. I posted over at the Duik forum and luckily the creator of the script, DuDuff himself, answered my query.

Thanks for the assist and for the awesome animation script.

Question:  When I try to move the root/torso controller of my character, or the supermover (move all) the IK rigged assets, in this case arms and tail, disappear.

Answer: In your project, just unlick the arms and the tail, leaving them without parent, and everything works fine. What’s going on is that if the arm is linked to the torso, AND the bones are linked to the torso too (in any way, not just parenting, could be IK, controllers…), both the puppet effect and the layer move with the torso, which “doubles” the movement, and the layer goes “out” of the puppet. That’s what causes this weird issue 🙂

WIP Vampire OCD Awareness

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Self-initiated

Software: Photoshop

Media: Digital


Working on a new Halloween illustration. I want to bring awareness to OCD in the vampire community. Take back the night!

How to enable all software downloads on Mac OS

enableAllDownloadsMacHey Folks,

Upgraded my Mac OS and have to make a few changes to get it the way I like it. One thing I didn’t expect was needing to enable downloads from third parties not verified by Apple. That may sound scary but there are a lot of great applications that fall under this umbrella.

I know I made this change last time I upgraded but you need to do it each time, I suppose. After some googling here’s what I found

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4180691

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Sahil Om Arora
Aug 6, 2012 12:48 AM
Re: Your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the Mac App Store and identified developers.
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Helpful
Hello Guys,

I faced the same issue. Apple has now changed the default settings to only download application from Mac App Store and identified developers. you need to change the settings
Please follow the steps given below to resolve this issue –

System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General > Allow applications downloaded from > Anywhere

Hope this helps

Quitting Time

It isn’t a fun subject. It runs counter to our narrative of struggling till you make it, BUT sometimes in life we need to step back and ask ourselves what we’re fighting for.

Melanie Pinola at Lifehacker.com put together a solid read on knowing when it is time to quit. Sometimes, you need to step back and realize it isn’t working.

-What is the cost to you now?

Read the article

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