In the few times I've tinkered with animating in Clip Studio Paint (outside of making small animations in Aseprite), I've been constructing "body parts" to puppet around to get my desired effect. One of my friends referred to this as "rigging" and I'm not really familiar with it myself. To any animators (or anyone in general) who is knowledgeable on the subject; What is rigging? What's the most friendly program for doing rigging? And where can I learn more about it outside of word of mouth?
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Rigging for digital animation in a process of organizing elements of a character in functional structures, which enable logical posing with Forward and Inverse Kinematics as well as creating/accessing facial expressions, hand gestures, body angles and so on. The main benefit of puppet animation with rigged characters is that it increases production speed, allowing the automatic generation of in-betweens.
The best rigging and posing system for Flash and Animate is Smart Magnet Rigs (SMR):
A facial rigging example:
Here is a step-by-step basic rigging tutorial:
https://flash-powertools.com/character-rigging-for-flash-animation/
and an article discussing more advanced concepts:
https://flash-powertools.com/advanced-smr-2-rig-architecture/
Other prominent and popular programs for 2D puppet animation are Moho and ToonBoom Harmony.
All 3D animation, produced in programs such as Blender or Maya is done with rigs.
At 11/24/24 05:54 PM, CheesyBoy888 wrote:In the few times I've tinkered with animating in Clip Studio Paint (outside of making small animations in Aseprite), I've been constructing "body parts" to puppet around to get my desired effect. One of my friends referred to this as "rigging" and I'm not really familiar with it myself. To any animators (or anyone in general) who is knowledgeable on the subject; What is rigging? What's the most friendly program for doing rigging? And where can I learn more about it outside of word of mouth?
its like tool in animating software where you can connect body or object parts using for changing poses and stuff.
i will make it easier to you: it is like your moving like you walking (legs and arms moving) but you can't see there is acually a mouse cursor changing or moving these parts and you can't feel it.
