This a free Toon Boom Animate tutorial on character rigging for a walk cycle or other animation. This covers inverse illustrating the character, breaking up the body parts , organizing a hierarchal rig, animating with inverse kinematics & bones, and changing the Z-depth of body parts over time.

This video, part 1, covers illustrating the character. Parts 2 and 3 are also here on Vimeo.

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