{"id":42954,"date":"2014-07-07T15:36:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T19:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=42954"},"modified":"2014-09-10T12:57:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T16:57:10","slug":"after-effects-video-tutorial-character-rigging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/after-effects-video-tutorial-character-rigging\/","title":{"rendered":"After Effects Video Tutorial: Character Rigging"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"learn-how-to-rig-a-character-using-expressions-and-parenting-in-this-after-effects-video-tutorial\">Learn how to rig a character using expressions and parenting in this After Effects video tutorial.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/pbblogassets\/uploads\/2014\/07\/adobe-after-effects-all-ver.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42956\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"adobe-after-effects-all-ver\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/pbblogassets\/uploads\/2014\/07\/adobe-after-effects-all-ver.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"58\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On top of being a fantastic program for creating VFX, After Effects allows users to animate cartoon style characters with ease. Tools like parenting and expression controllers make rigging and animating characters easy to create.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/pbblogassets\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Robot-animation.gif\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42957\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Robot animation\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/pbblogassets\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Robot-animation.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the following exclusive video tutorial we will demonstrate some basic character rigging in After Effects. The tutorial covers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Character Animation<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Inverse Kinematics<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Setting up designs in Illustrator<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Layer size vs. Document size<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Parenting<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Setting up expressions and parameters is really important when working with a cartoon character. If you aren&#8217;t careful, you can create a very messy and disorganized project. If you are interested in diving into character animation check out our earlier post on the <a title=\"12 Principles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/video-inspiration-the-12-basic-principles-of-animation\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">12 principles of animation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/100140486\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Want more After Effects video tutorials? Check out the <a title=\"After Effects\" href=\"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/category\/after-effects\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">After Effects section<\/a> on the PremiumBeat blog. While you&#8217;re there feel free to read up on all the <a title=\"Filmmaking\" href=\"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">latest filmmaking news and techniques<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have any questions? Know of a better way to set up inverse kinematics?<\/strong> Share in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to rig a character using expressions and parenting in this After Effects video tutorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":42959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,3291,21,39,92],"tags":[755,3040,3039,1702,3038],"class_list":["post-class-post-42954","post-class-post","post-class-type-post","post-class-status-publish","post-class-format-standard","post-class-has-post-thumbnail","post-class-hentry","post-class-category-after-effects","post-class-category-motion-graphics-2","post-class-category-tutorials","post-class-category-video-editing","post-class-category-video-tutorials-2","post-class-tag-animation","post-class-tag-cartoon","post-class-tag-character","post-class-tag-evan-abrams","post-class-tag-rigging"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v21.5) - 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