Name: The Official and Comprehensive Video Course about Duik Ángela (en/fr)
SKU: duik17-course
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Learn everything about Duik Ángela in After Effects! Ce tutoriel est aussi disponible en français.

Follow this 11-hour course to learn how to rig any kind of character, props, bipeds and other animals, and discover all the powerful animation tools of Duik Ángela.

The recommended price for this tutorial is 75 € and the minimum price is 25 € including taxes. Of course, you’re welcome to pay more if you can afford to!
Or for 10€ per month or 100€ per year, you can have an unlimited access to this and all other tutorials.

SKU: duik17-course Category: Tutorials Tags: Duik, Tutorials, Video

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Description

The official course about Duik Ángela, by Duduf, the developer of Duik himself.

Gold Members have an unlimited access to all our tutorials, including this one, along with other exclusive perks.

Introduction (English)

Introduction (Français)

Content

In this 11-hour Video Course, you’ll learn everything about Duik Ángela!
Et cette formation est aussi disponible en français.

01 – Installation & Getting started

Duration: 18mn

Install Duik and First Look
Settings
Duik Notes
Keyboard Shortcuts and the Duik API

02 – Introduction and overview

Duration: 17mn 30s

Create the armature
Parent layers
Auto-rig
Extract controllers
Walk and Run cycles

03 – It’s all about Bones!

Duration: 1h 34mn

Several ways and options to create bones
Predefined armatures for all kinds of limbs
Bone Settings
Bone Envelops
Bone Noodles
Bone Tools
A Complete Character with Noodles – Creation
A Complete Character with Noodles – Rig
OCO Metarigs
Bone the Emu!

04 – Duik Pins

Duration: 55mn

The two puppet engines
Spatial Pins
Rig the Ghost!
Bézier Pins
A Rubber Arm
Pin the Emu!
Parent the Emu!

05 – The Auto-rigger, the Controllers, the limbs, the IK…

Duration: 1h 40mn

Introduction
Options
Controller tools and custom controllers
The Arm, and all the IK settings and properties
Foreshortening and stretch
All types of legs
Wings
Tails
Fish
Rig the Emu
Emu stroke and details
Walk the emu!
Complete Rig of a Human with Stretch and Foreshortening

06 – A Mechanical Arm and a Train…

Duration: 57mn

Mechanical Arm and Cogs
Pistons
Cables
The Wagon
Animate the parenting

07 – Automation and kleaner

Duration: 57mn

Wiggle
Swink
Reinvent the wheel
Move Away and Motion Trail
Random Motion
The Ferris Wheel
Kleaner
Rig a Robot
Rig the Antenna
Animation and Kleaner

08 – The Connector

Duration: 1h 40mn

Sliders, Expose Transform and Layer List
Effector and Textures
Audio Connector
Rig an Arm with the Connector, and Multiple Connections
Introduction to the Facial Rig
Connect the Eyes
Connect the Eyelids
The Mouth
Head Turn
Advanced Arm: Rig and Parent Across Comps
Advanced Arm: Arm, Forearm and Hand Connections
Advanced Arm: Fixes and Modifications after the Connections

09 – The Key Morph

Duration: 41mn 30s

Introduction
A Simple Head
An Advanced Head: Rotations
An Advanced Head: Expressions
An Advanced Head: Controllers

10 – Quadruped: Rig and Animate a Cat

Duration: 25mn 30s

Rig the Cat
Animate the Cat

11 – Animation Tools

Duration: 40mn

Select Keyframes, Copy and Paste Animation
Interpolator
Move Anchor Points, Align Layers, Snap Keys, IK/FK Switch
Tweening
Tween the Emu
Interpolation Tools
Animation Library
Klean the Emu
Sequencer
X-Sheet
Traditional/Cel Animation

12 – Non-Linear Animation

Duration: 21mn

Introduction and demo
How to setup and use the NLA

13 – Cameras

Duration: 18mn 30s

Framing Guides
3D Camera
2D Camera

14 – Additional Tools

Duration: 26mn

Composition tools
Layer Manager
Text Tools
Scripting and Expressions Tools
DuSan: Monitoring and Sanity of the Project

Intended Audience

This tutorial was recorded for people already comfortable with After Effects who want to learn how to use Duik Ángela to rig and animate characters. It is not a good idea to learn Duik if you don’t already know After Effects well enough!

If you’ve not seen it yet, we recommend you watch the free introductory tutorial to Duik Ángela too!

Included in this tutorial

All the character and prop files we’re going to rig and animate.

These files use After Effects 2022: it works with all versions more recent, but you won’t be able to open them with an older version of After Effects.