The Ultimate Guide to Head Rigging in After Effects

That thumbnail is a bit cursed but awesome video!

Duik ‘might’ be ‘free’… but seriously. They ask for a donation. Even just 10,- Theres people putting a lot of time and effort into it. Its too bad you put that way.. even if you do the basic donation its still 30,- dollars less.

how did you change the ears order to show above the face or behind it? also, how did you change the face outline on the sides?

The only problem I have with sliders is adding the Animation principles, overlapping, follow through, squash and stretch, it's everything linear with the sliders. Do you have any advice about that? Thank you!

I have a problem setting up DUIK. Unable to execute script ay line 5. File or folder does not exist.

Personal conclusion Duik can be tedious but overall it saves time and money in the full process. I haven't used joysticks and sliders but looks like you'll need another plugin for rigging the limbs since the sliders can only go so far and more sliders means more keyframes. Plus if you need to animate a raster object with puppet pins duik has bones and is a huge time saver

At the same time being able to rig paths and all in 1 click is big too

Maybe a solution for your naming conflict. Noticed in your tutorial you have several Comps within the tutorial Project. In attempting to learn JnS, I too created several Comps in the same Project as I tried different looks. Ran into the naming conflict when creating a Joystick name in the current Comp that I had used in an earlier Comp. Turns out you can use the same Joystick name repeatedly within the same Comp. However, when you attempt to use a Joystick name originally created in a different Comp is when the error message appears. Just my experience.

will it confuse you if you use both in the same project same comp? say if i wanna rig my character eyebrows with duik but the entire face movement with joystick sliders.

are you the guys from the davinci resolve tutorials? you guys look. alike.

Your comparison videos are MVP! Clear and simple. Thank you! So the best stack for character animation would be Limber + J&Ss in your opinion?

i want you to make a cat head bounce behind and front how do we proceed..? contact ?

Thank you for your wonderful tutorials. Your videos help me improve my character rigging skills a lot. I rly rly appreciate your videos. Thank you again!

Hey would anyone know why none of my tools work in AE?

Hey! I have an issue that I never had before but when I play my video the picture and sound slows down and speeds up again and again (despite the green bar being fully loaded) and in the "info" window on the side it tells me that it doesn't read in real time
I can only fix it by changing the "ignore" tab (in the preview window) from 0 to 1 or more, then theres no more realtime playback issues but it plays the video like Im editing in 10fps. I'm working on a new macbook pro (one month old) M2 2022 24G RAM 1T storage, I'm using After Effects 2020.
Can someone help me :/

These plugins seem very similar to Adobe Character Animator, I haven't really used any of these plugins/apps, is that the purpose of CA or is that for something else?

Man, you're rocks! Thank You for your course !!! I've learned so much!!!

Respect to your good work, thanks a lot

Just what i was looking for! thanks!

DUIK has "List" which create more option for each transform expression, meaning u can add List for scales, rotational and such, this will create more options when rigging.

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Please provide me Take shape Script link I will buy.

nice video sir

Thanks! Love your work, can’t wait for more time to take the course. I work with AE and CH full time, but trying to carve out time to learn to rig characters from
scratch for that nice buttery movement.

Your style of giving tuts for different topics I appreciate that ,,, You are doing great job through all tutorials online ....... wait ...

.... Will you please make a video tutorial for everything about colour and gradient in after effects like editing color control of predefined templates AE, and how to change color scheme instantly ..... please please .... and what are the useful plugins do we need for a better coloring scheme in after effect if we are a motion graphics designer