Limber 2 for After Effects - Animation Modes

In this video, you’ll learn about Limber’s three animation modes and why they make it the most powerful way to animate characters in After Effects. I cover everything from simple foreshortening techniques to classic animation principles.
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00:00 - Intro
00:14 - IK Mode
00:44 - Lengths
02:07 - Stretch
02:56 - Anti pop
03:56 - FK Mode
04:29 - Locators
04:56 - Overlapping action
06:56 - Auto flop
08:29 - Breaking the joints
09:39 - Scissor action
10:49 - FreeK Mode
11:48 - Leading with the joint
13:22 - Front facing characters
15:07 - See you later

[@saschageier]

Incredible!! Worked many years with duik on a daily basis for Red Bull Cartoons as a exclusive Animator (Freelancer). And this here is pure gold. just wow, you're incredible good

[@animatabledotco]

Thank-you Sascha!!! It made my day when I read this last night.

[@amarguitars_original]

Thanks for the tutorial, very informative, and I’ll need to practice with it for a while. Thanks for making the After Effects project available. I’ve downloaded it and will use it during practice to learn from it. Of course, I also purchased Limber 2 right away. Keep it up!

[@animatabledotco]

Thank-you!!

[@deboraholiveira7419]

I absolutely love these tutorials! It's simple to understand what Limber 2 can do, your explanation is great. I can't wait to get Limber 2 and start using it

[@animatabledotco]

Thank-you so much for taking the time to say this! A lot goes into making these, but you never know how well they're hitting the spot unless someone tells you. 🥹

[@LesGaminuscules]

Excellent, thanks Steve. A lot to grasp.

[@Shawk23]

Okay I am excited! I got Limber 1 but did not use it much because I love to create my characters in Photoshop and Limber 1 was shape based. I have been using Rubberhose 3 instead. But now with these changes and features, I am definitely upgrading!!!! Rubberhose 3 is great but it does not have FK. Thank you for this update! I am excited to get this!

[@animatabledotco]

Thank-you! Great to hear you appreciate what FK can do. With cutout and mixed media styles having a bit of a renaissance right now, I think precomp limbs will help folks do some cool stuff.

[@Shawk23]

@@animatabledotco FK just offers more control! And I am loving the new features! Its now my standard rigging tool!

[@govindkharbade]

switched to limber from duik. Great Video

[@legrainproduction2760]

hi, any idea to bend the torso etc? because it s greaat for limbs, but how can i manage to bend torso or play with the spine?

[@animatabledotco]

That's why we made Bendio: aescripts.com/bendio/

[@saschageier]

would like to know as well.. coming from duik

[@animatabledotco]

@@saschageier Limber is for limbs. Get Bendio to bend bodies! aescripts.com/bendio/

[@guckmyman]

Hey there! Awesome plugin! :) Is it possible to use FK for a finger rig for example? I didn't find a way to have 4 puppet pins instead of 3.

[@animatabledotco]

You'll be able to do this with 3-bone limbs when we add them in the next big update (which will be free). Currently, it would be possible to set up, with the extra section as an FK extension, but it's quite complex.

[@guckmyman]

@@animatabledotco Thanks for the reply, Iooking forward to the update :)

[@MartinWhite-i4i]

Jesus this is so complicated!

[@animatabledotco]

I can see why you might think that, but you don't have to use all these techniques! You can leave all your limbs on IK and ignore this video completely! And then if, one day, you find you can't do what you need with IK, Limber will have your back. The other factor is that we do pack a lot of info into a short space of time with these videos, because a lot of folks don't like long ones.

[@pedroapud5021]

You need an ad agency, those videos are a bit hard to follow mainly by an ad person 😂

[@animatabledotco]

Haha yeah. These ones are aimed at animators. The promo is this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/raKakJigYsepgdE Making videos that adequately explain how to use the tool as well as being succinct and appealing is a challenge. If we could afford an agency we probably would do that!!

[@pedroapud5021]

@@animatabledotco Nice! Congratulations! I’m anxious to have a project that requires rigging so I can buy Limber 2. Limber was great already!