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 2, teaches the hierarchy setup. Parts 1 and 3 are also here on Vimeo.

Source files for this lesson are at CartoonSmart.com/vimeo/TBA_character_rig_files.zip

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