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Overview of Duik

Overview of Duik - After Effects Tutorial

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Overview of Duik

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- [Instructor] Another great tool for character animation is Duik and I've installed Duik here. I'm just going to show you how easy it is to use. It can be easy, it can be quite complex, but it's a fantastic tool and it's donation software, so I really urge you if you use it to make a donation. So here I've got the right arm, right shoulder and right hand isolated. Obviously there are other layers in there but I've just hidden them. So what I'm going to do, is just show you how to rig an arm. You can rig a complete human if you want. If I click on that it will create the bones but obviously that would make quite a long tutorial as I structure all of my animation with all the different body parts. so I'll click on arm, and it will go through the process of creating this arm for me, and then I can just drag it over into position onto the arm that I want to animate. Okay, so I'm just dragging each of these little controllers. You'll see they're almost like a skeleton, like bones, and you…

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