Character Rigging in Adobe Animate and After Effects | Tutorial

I this video I will show you an overview on rigging for 2D animation. This includes discussing Forward Kinematics and Inverse Kinematics, their differences, and how they can be applied to a character. I will show you step by step how to get your character ready for tween-based animation inside of Adobe Animate as well as Adobe After Effects!
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Thanks for checking out this video! This is a re-uploaded version that fixed a few audio issues I noticed on my original one. Thanks for your support and understanding!

[@blackboyoo7]

can I get your character file for practice?

[@knowntotheworld1390]

Underrated. thanks for this, really helped me out

[@himagnamallik]

sir how to design a character

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Cool

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Dude I don't know where you are or what you're doing now but thanks for your 3 recent videos teaching me how to swap frame lip sync and modify rotations

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[@viciousgamer0619]

Short, Simple and straight to the point, love it. Seriously bro you saved my hide, you basically summarized several hours of my teachers lecture into a video less than 10 mins.

[@nyahilistic9276]

Recent animation school graduate here: Currently using your videos to help me enhance my portfolio for the industry! Thanks for making this and I love how concise everything was!! :)

[@forzenfukuroanimations]

I think your the first person I could understand talking about all this rigging stuff for the first time. I need to learning how to do flash rigging...and you explained it in the most simplest way! Thank you!

[@levelupwithsmartbuilder8067]

Amazing tutorial. It was short, but thorough, and you didn't lose me. Very well done.

[@Snoop1000Skins]

Nice! You should consider a “how to design a character“ video.

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Absolutely

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Definitely

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[@AJKurano]

Agreed

[@DigitalDrew92]

Great video man, the animation segments look so good. That seems like a whole lot of work to do but the end result is great. I'm sure things get crazy when you have a very complex character design. Keep up the stellar work Chad, I really enjoy watching these.

[@Chitchadshow]

Thanks for watching! There's definitely a benefit to more simplified character designs, that for sure. The few times I worked with complicated character rigs I needed a whole screen just for all their control layers and it got pretty crazy. Glad you are enjoying the new content!

[@ThatsValForYa]

you explained one of the most seemingly complicated things in animating in the simplest way i have EVER heard!!! insanely good video, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I swear to GOD, I been fighting with the damn software all evening until I watched this. Your tutorial was simple and straight to the point!!
You just saved my life!! Thank you!!!!

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This is one the greatest life changing tutorial on the Internet for 2d animations. Thank you very so much sir for this tutorial :)

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Exactly what I needed and was looking for! Thanks!!

[@VonSolo5]

Great video! Beautiful work too, on the character version of you. Thank you!

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Why on earth did it take so long for me to find your channel bro? Short, well explained and practical usage in less that 10 minutes is what i needed.

[@lkityan02]

As someone that knows 3d rigging already, this is really straight forward and easy to pick up. Great video btw

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Ridiculously informative! I'm subscribing if this is kind of quality I can expect. You need more views.

[@Chitchadshow]

Thanks for checking out the video!

[@leahbrening1101]

What a great video!!! Broken down very well and straight to the point!

[@wiccanchannel6434]

thank you for this video omg it made this task soooo much easier please keep more coming

[@owenhuwmorgan]

Hey Chad! Finally had time to sit down and watch this video! Ah man, this brought back so many memories of Flash from back in 2006. Really good tutorial mate, very informative but to the point 👍🏻 looking forward to seeing what’s next 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Thanks for checking out the video, glad you enjoyed it!

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this is super useful for what I'm doing! Thank You!

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Thanks a lot..greatly simplified tutorial 😊

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Thanks for coming back to my channel! Glad these videos could be helpful.

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[@Chitchadshow]

I appreciate the kind feedback, thank you!

[@MattsNotes]

This is literally the only helpful video in existence for rigging characters that I've found! Wow haha nice work! I've been transitioning to animate, and even adobes own videos are not this helpful

[@Chitchadshow]

Appreciate the feedback. Glad this video helped!

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Installed, everything works, thanks!

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Subscribed! This is a good start to animate my illustrations!

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Woah, great video mate!

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Thank You for the useful and entire information!

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Thanks, your videos are amazing.

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it worked! thank you so much!!

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nicely done my friend, you will help a lot of people..

[@DanDaMiniFig]

THIS IS THE TUTORIAL I NEEDED! Thank you so much!!!!!!!

[@Chitchadshow]

Glad this was helpful for you!

[@vaultbabee]

There ain't no way I just found DanDaMiniFig, the person who made me want to rig my own 2d character, in the video I'm watching to learn how to do it

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This legitimately helped me out so much, THANK YOU!

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I need 2d animator

[@clarancemichael156]

Tbh it was the most useful video i watched for animate... Can u do a video on how to animation (i mean like walk cycle) or simple things like that ... It would have been a great help .. anyways .. loved this one

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Simple and Clear. Like your tut!

[@Chitchadshow]

Thank you!

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You train so well! It's like you comprehend my tempo...

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Nice tutorial.... Very helpful

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wow great tutorial. thanks man

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That was great. Thank you.

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This was extremely helpful. Thanks for sharing.

[@Chitchadshow]

Glad it was helpful!

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very helpful, thank so much

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Ty my man love it

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Thank you. 👍

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GREAT MAN

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Thanks mate! Happy animatin

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Thanks for explained simply

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Great video!

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Very helpful.. thankyou very much 🌟🩷

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VERY VERY HELPFUL BRO ...Without this Video it will be a hard time learning and understand how this works
Very Well Explained GOOD JOB ... SOMEBODY Need Need to Watch for Biggeners. 👌👌👌

[@Chitchadshow]

Thank you for the kind words and feedback!

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you deserve more than a million of subscribers

[@skilloid]

Awesome tutorial. Please also share how to draw eyes and lips of characters in Adobe Animate.

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best video for rigging thanks for the precious info.

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Glad it was helpful!

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Nice, this helped alot.

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Thanks so much

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Who tf told you it was free

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Glad it helped!

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Thank you!

[@pugmel3234]

Hello, I'm using adobe animate and I'm a bit confused about the "convert members to graphic symbols, because I'm importing a character from Illustrator, with all the limbs separated as movie clips, so if I convert a member I will have 2 different symbols, which I don't know to animate only the graphic ones.
**Sorry for bad English.

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Thanks bro

[@lizm230]

Thank you for the theory behind and the step to step tutorial. Is the “distribute to layers” work for an image downloaded from the internet? Let’s say I want to animate Elsa from Disney🥺

[@timelinetourism1000]

I will try

[@Doc_Animator_N]

Thanks for the tips! This will prove helpful for a character I’m making.
Btw, any chance Adobe Animate lets us make curves to control the eyes moving? Or facial expressions, like in Blender or Maya?

[@bhagathitesh]

Took me back to 2000 when it used to be called Macromedia Flash which I learned on my own and there wasn;t RUclips and was enjoying making 2D animations and interactive widgets gradually until Flash wiped out for 2 -3 years completely and I start different direction but fortunately I still remember all the tools and shortcuts and commands to apply
May be I spend more time and with Animate and do some more 2D animations at some point

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Thank you Sensei...

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TOP! Thanks man.

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Thank you

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Nice video. Can you please make a full tutorial of "How you are replacing your original self with your animated self"

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Still here saving people, thanks a lot man

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thanks this really helped!

[@Chitchadshow]

Glad to hear!

[@artyakovlev]

Hi! Thanks for this video! That's amazing! Can i question to you? How can i create rigging wish soft arm, like Finn and Jake from Adventure time?

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very useful when u show both software ~ But How to bend any parts without plug-in ??

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[@danielaorbegosobracamonte8276]

great :D a question, know traditional animation would serve to make animated videos like this? or is it better to learn vector animation? please I will thank you if you can clarify it :)

[@CoLewGaming]

Hey Chad! Just curious how do I save a character that I’ve drawn? So I drew Spider-Man and I have him all rigged and ready to animate but I want to use him in future animations. How would I save his objects? Thank you so much for this awesome tutorial!

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My Same question help me

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