Rig once, use EVERYWHERE | Rubberhose 3 Rig to EGP Workflow

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In this video, I'll show you my complete process for rigging the Ninja Turtles using Rubberhose 3 from Battle Axe. We'll start by transferring the Illustrator artwork to After Effects easily using Overlord. Next, we'll rig the character using Rubberhose 3, replacing the arms and legs artwork with hoses, and parenting other artwork layers to the hoses. Then I'll show you how to make custom controls for more advanced rigging features like the color of the character, prop selectors, mouth shapes, and even facial controls. With everything in place, I'll show you how to use the Rig to EGP feature of Rubberhose 3 to create a source comp that can be reused over and over as a precomp with access to all of the custom rig controls we've created. It's an incredible workflow and unlocks so many possibilities for what can be done with characters in After Effects.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:31 Transferring the Artwork
02:43 Rigging the arms
08:56 Rigging the Legs
12:14 Cleaning Up
13:34 Adding a color control
16:16 Rig to EGP
20:36 Custom EGP controls
21:36 Weapon selector
24:17 Conditional Expressions
28:52 Pushing it further
32:52 Final thoughts

[@EricPeelMusic]

Seems like your channel is the only window into what a pro AE animator does and how quickly they work. You’re very talented and skilled both in animating efficiently and of course, teaching. Jake kicks ass!

[@robertdouble559]

That keyframe t-shirt. Yes. Genius.

[@ricardojaimes6604]

Lot to unpack here. Definitely going to have to break into two parts. Thanks for the great knowledge you share Jake! Looking forward to taking your explainer video lesson eventually. Really enjoyed Ps + Ai.

[@MotionHatch]

The one rig to rule them all!

[@sigmaskywalker2704]

This is the best day of my life I've been waiting for this for so long! Thank you so much.

[@limjiaying8278]

I LOVE your work Jake!!!!!!! 😍

[@k6sra]

thanks jake! your videos always help

[@BryanSchultzitis]

Another great tool, another great tutorial, another great shirt. Really just a big win :)

[@JacktheDamon]

This is such a useful tutorial for me right now! Thanks you ❤‍🔥

[@erasmuskid]

the mouth of the last character makes the animation so much better

[@hellosabrinachaney]

The essential graphics panel has come such a long way in just a handful of years! FYI-- Layer > Layer Styles > Stroke also works to add a stroke to a shape layer, and it will stay uniform even if the original stroke is tapered.

[@indy4s]

Rubberhose was already a great tool, but the EGP options make it next level for productivity.

[@kdogg73]

In the first 90 secs Jake answers a mystery I have had since getting it but never took time to find out: why sometimes Illustrator art comes apart and sometimes stays together when teleporting with Overlord.

[@jatingidwani8470]

he said "i want is to be as simple as possible"

[@doodlve]

Awesome

[@scottsimmons6814]

Excellent tutorial. Do you ever use Squirrel to setup layer hierarchies?

[@aleksaharovsky]

great tutorial! I'm not sure why Adobe team haven't added visibility to the Essential Graphics panel, it would make SO MUCH faster to setup instead of writing expressions

[@mehdiarjmandi5280]

nice

[@HarshalSonwane-ss9vk]

How would you bend character in front? suppose a golf hitting pose.. golfer is standing and then bending to hit the ball, how will you rig that from front angle? Because every character rig i see always bends to the either side but never in front.

[@legrainproduction2760]

ffiirrssssttttt !! yeah what an achievment

[@JakeInMotion]

🥇

[@WildAccents]

How do I get the "Layer Contents" window that you have on the right hand side of the UI?

[@sagarkmv548]

Duik Angela is good ? As compare to this plugin

[@camerontubb9269]

On the "Pushing it further" section, i understand how to link the component to the point control, but how did you set the values to 0? mine inherit the value of the default position

[@gameplaydrive]

I'm not sure if I understood your question correctly. But, You wanna add "+value" in your expression and that should fix it.

[@maikymadnesskreation8646]

There's any way to do this with duik?

[@sylvainleblanc2555]

I've just bought Rubberhose. Great exercice to begin. But I've an issue when I do EGP to rig : controllers for Head and Torso move with them but rotation doesn't work 🤔. Any idea ?

[@stevenmoon3164]

Having the same issue :( @jakeinmotion any fix?

[@stevenmoon3164]

For context - in essential properties my position values are red but my rotation values are blue

[@camerontubb9269]

Im having an issue, ive re-ran it a few times and the same result. at 18:53 Ive delted contents and add the rectangle and stroke, but when i adjust the rotation position etc it doesn't affect the torso or head the shape just rotates around its anchor point. Not sure if ive set it up wrong earlier on? Any idea? Cheers

[@camerontubb9269]

I figured it out for some reason i had to manually link them all to the rotation transform from the pre-comps essential properties. Not sure why as it looked to me that they transferred over when you did it

[@asyrafulumam]

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