Skillshare – Motion Graphics: Character Rigging & Automating Walk Cycle in After Effects

Character rigging and animation is an essential part of motion graphics, it brings a lot more fun when you have character animation in your explainer videos and add more life to your videos. However character rigging and walk cycle seems very complicated and hard to understand, a lot of motion designers when they first started are hesitant to try it out.

Today, I will show you the easiest and most efficient way to rig a character and automate a walk cycle. Anyone with basics understanding of After Effects will be able to take this course and follow along.

Complete professional workflow from storyboard to final render.( AI to AE workflow)

How to prepare and build character in Illustrator before rigging

Character rigging

Automating walk cycle without any keyframes

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This is an introductory course of character rigging and animation, there are a lot of things that we need to cover in this course, so a basic understanding of After Effects will be recommended before taking this course. If you are a beginner and want to learnt After Effects fundamentals, I have other two course that can help you grasp the basics of After Effects before taking this one.