3D Characters in After Effects using Element 3D and Joysticks

[@motionbynick]

I know I'm late to the party, but do you want to see more Element 3D tutorials? 👇

[@raquetamalvada]

Obviously :) Thx for the work!!!

[@teafall]

yes pls!

[@mr_budo]

Yes.. element 3d 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@PostProduction]

Yes! Yes!Yes!

[@deng8248]

Yes!

[@JonassaintStudios]

Such a dope tutorial! I would never think to combine these two plugins

[@yanglu13]

amazing video man, maybe i'm two years late but this just opened my mind so much ❤

[@gerardtran7295]

Nice tut man, u're amazing, wait for next turtorial

[@Xezem]

Joysticks and slider is just a games changer for after effect. Can't believe this is not a built-in plugin

[@DrMartens3]

Man.. Damn! Thank you! I like your tutorials so much, I learned so much from you, keep it up!

[@ahmetzeer]

Thanks very much for this awesome tutorial Its really usefull !! keep the good work mate ❤.

[@maddmann]

just came from that good reddit thead on this video great work

[@stevedavies1609]

That's pretty nifty!

[@BeauTardy]

Nick, can you tell us a little about your rig? Thanks!

[@gregkrazanski]

Nick, you actually aren't actually limited to 5 groups in 1 instance of element, you can actually create a new instance and set the render to "unified" and it will render as if it's 1 instance

[@motionbynick]

this is great, gonna look into this. Thank you!! 🙌

[@fishiii3678]

this is so sick

[@matthewroberts7244]

Looks great Nick. I too have avoided using element for years even though I bought it. Do you happen to know of any beginner tutorials for E3D?

[@kaihi178]

it’d be cool to see this tutorial with the beta 3d import! just bring in OBJs for each limb, parent them like a puppet rig, ez pz

[@andrewlindemann6427]

This is great, thanks Nick. Long time Element 3D user but never thought of this workflow. Did you mess around with the "Auxillary Channels" in E3D for breaking apart the rig further? I'm not certain you could export the Aux channels to nulls for combining with Joysticks, but curious if you'd gone down that path of exploration.

[@motionbynick]

i briefly looked into the aux channels but honestly couldn’t figure out what they were for. I only watched one E3D video before diving into the program and making my own tutorial 🤣😅

[@andrewlindemann6427]

@@motionbynick well you look like a pro off one tutorial! So the Aux channels allow you to break elements in each group down into up to 10 more groups. you can assign an Aux channel to up to 10 elements in the group, and then when you go into element on the timeline in AE, you have individual control over each Aux channel in the group. so theoretically you could break something down into 50 parts. That said, I don't know how Aux channels transfer when you generate the nulls from each group...you may completely lose the functionality when you do that. but worth a deep dive to figure out potentially.

[@abuhamzaalsafadi]

@@andrewlindemann6427 there is a way to use Aux with nulls, if you use a script from aescripts called elementary, you can actually tell the script to make a null for each auxiliary channel, but it will slow your ae a bit because of all the expressions, so i'm not sure if it will be a pain to work with it but definitely it's an easier way to work with Aux than scrolling in the effect menu, the script is free or "name your price"

[@andrewlindemann6427]

@@abuhamzaalsafadi mind blowing thanks for the tip.

[@abuhamzaalsafadi]

@@andrewlindemann6427 you welcome 👍

[@MOTIONTERROR]

instant sub

[@mr_budo]

I saw your Instagram. How did you model them in insta

[@ZeroHp-]

In your Upgrade course you describe people who put the timeline up top as "Psychopaths"... 👀 Are you ok Nick? Fr tho thanks for the great tutorial as always ❤️

[@motionbynick]

someone needs to check on me 😭

[@ZeroHp-]

@@motionbynick We're here for you homi 🫂

[@nothing-tj9eh]

most fun part in video is his dms when he say blender is kicking my a$s hhahhahahhahhahhah