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15 October 2018
My next goal is to add some Duik Bassel tutorials. However, the post rate will be much slower than the weekly videos I posted for the Controllers & Expressions series because I’m working on several projects at once (a bad habit of mine). It is my goal to get the first of these videos up in the next two weeks.
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Video 13: Creating an icon grid for lip synchronization, part 3 of 3
Welcome to the final video in the Controllers & Expressions Series. In this final installment, I going to show you how to lip synchronize your puppet's mouth to a audio track using the icon grid built in the last two videos. This will also show you how keyframes…
Spotlight
Duik: Introduction to Duik Bassel
Although not created for character animation, Adobe After Effects has been adopted by many filmmakers to produce some excellent animated films. Duik Tools is a free After Effects® script that offers many automated features to assist you in rigging puppets for…
inverse kinematics
In animation, inverse kinematics (IK) refers to equations that calculate how the joints of a limb or body should change position when the end point is moved. For example, if inverse kinematics was applied to a shoulder > elbow > hand arrangement, moving…
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