5 Reasons Why I Ditched Duik and Rig with Limber in After Effects

thank you so much! i'm starting to learn AE rigging plugins and i think this video saved my nerves by preventing me of starting with duik

i Download limber but i didn't now how to use it

Bro is it possible to combine limber and joystick and sliders with a character? Also how much longer cost? It’s the first time I hear of it

Solid bro! Thanks so much for breaking it down so efficiently.

Try Duik Angela

Thanks for such great videos. I used DUIK a couple of years ago and I thought the results were great, but yes, it was a pain to rig. When I did that I rigged the body as well as the face. Can Limber be used to rig facial expressions? If not, I was looking at Joystick. Can that be used in tandem with Limber?

used DUIK for many years for a brand which uses cartoons for their energy drink… yes complicated, but if you‘re do it daily for years… will look at limber for sure once they support psd which is essential for this type of cartoons

Here is my big question for Limber. Can you use artwork from Illustrator as the actual elements you are animating? I And I don't mean converting them to shape layers or using them as a template to re-create in AE. I mean animate the actual Illustrator layers. Because from everything I see, it doesn't seem like that is possible, but maybe I'm missing something.

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How can I get the arm to stay behind the torso and the forearm to be in front of the torso using limber?

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I've just opened Limber and it has a button called "match IK >> FK". It made me chuckle a bit.
Man that is a good feature.

any idea how to make my hand connectes to my wrist in limber, following the angle of my arm? i have to apply a rotation on the hand to follow my arm...

does limber allow psd layers (character design outside AE) to be rigged?

the main issue for me in limber, is to make a nice leg design...i cant make what iwant with the leg taper

I love deekay tool

Wow I have never even heard of limber but I think I'm gonna have to switch

Interesting, while I agree Duik doesnt have the options of your last segment "dynamic animation", I think most of the other issues here are just bad designed characters, you are not using rounded shapes to connect the parts of the body.

Friend, very useful information thanks. I have a question, do you know which is the difference between Limber and Limber Lite? Thanks again

i'm using duik but after watching your video i prefer using the limber.

Can you do puppet pin rigs in Limber?

ok my last comment lead me there...ahha

Why use after effect when its sooo slow (yes i have high end pc) and not optimize to see your animation in real time and slows you down to hell... You wanna be animator? Use real animation softwares that actually produced animated movies and tvshows... not a half-ass compositor.

3 words: Duik auto WalkCycle

I use longer for these same reasons, but I've also been using deekay too I love it

Animating - not rigging - that's what I really enjoy! It's really frustrating I have to deal with all that layers mess with Duik. So maybe I should try character animation again, now with Limber.. thanks for the video!

Duik can be a serous performance hog if using multiple precomps in high res, mostly due to heavy scripting. How is Limber in this regard?

thank you man

Great video as always! I love using Limber, it's so much easier. I wonder though if there is a way to use it with Photoshop artwork, for example when you have lots of textures and can't easily reproduce this in Illustrator and convert to shapes?

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Bought limber a few years ago, but didn't understand how to replace the default graphics with my own, so I used Duik. But now years later with more knowledge and after this video I'll give it a try.

nice video, very informative, will think about buying Limber!

Hey John, can u make a video about Deekay Tool ??

Dang. I literally bought it over the weekend. Imma need to donate to you, man.

Limber is so much easier to use

I use Duik only to rig psd layers from my collage animations since Limber can’t do that, that’s how I remember it at least… I wish it could as it would be much easier!

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Even if Limber is not very expensive, Duik is completely free.

In my experience the most frustrating thing about DUIK were theese snapping joints. I was never able to get it right, especially when working in postproduction studio, where everything must have been perfect. On the other hand DUIK has this misterious "automations" pannel, that i never used, but some people said that it's helpful in motion design.

Does limber have walk cycle presets like Duik has?

Great video and reminder for me to dig back into Limber! I use Rubberhose a lot too, that's also great, Right tool for the right job! For that reason, definitely worth experimenting with and understanding the advantages and disadvantages of each plug-in. Thanks!

Great smack down, Limber is truly built to save time, but Duik is free, I think that counts. I'll love to see you do a smack down between Limber and Deekay tool, or Limber and Hot Dog, that will be great.