[Digital Tutors] Creative Development: Rigging and Animating 2D Characters in After Effects with Daniel Gie [2012, ENG]

Lesson 1
Introduction and project overview

Lesson 2
Examining the character's in Photoshop

Lesson 3
From Photoshop to After Effects

Lesson 4
Organizing your composition

Lesson 5
Creating arm bones with the Puppet tool

Lesson 6
Refining the arm and making cloth cuffs

Lesson 7
Copying one arm rig to the other

Lesson 8
Downloading Duik Tools

Lesson 9
Rigging a basic cutout character

Lesson 10
Attaching the arms to the shoulders

Lesson 11
Rigging the cuffs to respond realistically

Lesson 12
Controlling hand poses

Lesson 13
Rigging the shirt collar

Lesson 14
Rigging the neck

Lesson 15
Overview of working with the head

Lesson 16
Placing pins in the face

Lesson 17
Refining the mesh of the face

Lesson 18
Building sliders for facial expressions

Lesson 19
Working on teeth and eye brows

Lesson 20
Making the eyebrows react

Lesson 21
Tightening the facial expressions

Lesson 22
Rigging the lips

Lesson 23
Adding more expression sliders

Lesson 24
Creating a dynamic jaw

Lesson 25
Making a bouncy nose

Lesson 26
Making the nose sniff

Lesson 27
Facial wrinkles

Lesson 28
Cheek wrinkles

Lesson 29
Mouth wrinkles

Lesson 30
Fixing unwanted distortions

Lesson 31
Tweaking the face

Lesson 32
Rigging the tongue

Lesson 33
Working with animated layer masks

Lesson 34
Refining the blink layer mask

Lesson 35
Directing the character's gaze

Lesson 36
Adding new eye poses

Lesson 37
Shading the first eye

Lesson 38
Finishing the eye poses

Lesson 39
Importing the new eye poses

Lesson 40
Adjusting the eyebrows to work

Lesson 41
Fixing shading issues

Lesson 42
Animating the eyelids dynamically

Lesson 43
Making the blinks more real

Lesson 44
Refining the mouth and lips

Lesson 45
Troubleshooting puppet meshes

Lesson 46
Transferring the face controls

Lesson 47
Finishing the face control transfer

Lesson 48
Adding more controls to the body

Lesson 49
Adjusting the collar

Lesson 50
Rigging a collar

Lesson 51
Making the character breathe

Lesson 52
Setting up for FreeForm Pro

Lesson 53
Reviewing the scene hierarchy

Lesson 54
Making a 3D head

Lesson 55
Animating displacement maps

Lesson 56
Linking the 3D spaces

Lesson 57
Controlling 3D head rotations

Lesson 58
Controlling the teeth and tongue

Lesson 59
Connecting identical nulls

Lesson 60
Finishing up the facial controls

Lesson 61
Constructing the set

Lesson 62
Adding reflections to the glass

Lesson 63
Putting the character in the scene

Lesson 64
Finish building the set

Lesson 65
The properties of point lights

Lesson 66
Troubleshooting the shadows

Lesson 67
Casting shadows on the wall

Lesson 68
Adding dirt to the glass

Lesson 69
Animating the camera

Lesson 70
Finishing touches on the set lighting

Lesson 71
Adding markers to the soundtrack

Lesson 72
Animating breathing

Lesson 73
Managing your system memory

Lesson 74
Continue animating

Lesson 75
Refining the facial rig

Lesson 76
Animating the rest of the neck

Lesson 77
Animate the nose

Lesson 78
Animating the torso

Lesson 79
Animating 3D head rotations

Lesson 80
Adjusting the upper lip

Lesson 81
Faking a stop motion look

Lesson 82
Setting up motion blur

Lesson 83
Fixing an animated mask glitch

Lesson 84
Discussing the finished animation