Character Swing Rigging

Create quick and easy advanced secondary character animations for, hair, clothes, fur, ears, tongues, + many more 

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Character Swing Rigging + Wave-o-Matic + Multi Parent Rigging

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What is Character Swing Rigging?

Character Swing Rigging allows you to quickly create natural swinging/rotational motion for any layer(s) or puppet pins. It’s simple fast and effective and gives you full customisability for each part of the swing/rotation. Try it out, it’s a lot more powerful than what you might think.

Then What The Hell is Wind?

Wind is a wind generation tool within the script, it creates natural wind like motion and is automatically added to all layer(s) or pin(s) that you select. Simply apply Character Swing Rigging and head over to the effects panel to have a look at what it can do.

Frustration No More!

Ever been frustrated when adding secondary animation to any part of a character. Simple ear movements making you fed up? Trying to add The Double Albert onto your character and fed up with the 2000 keyframes needed? Or maybe you want to add some natural hair movement or give a character fur, well now you can. Simply create your layer(s) click the create button and The ting goes Skrrrrrrrrrah Pap Pap Kak Kak Kak Skitty Skit Pap Pa And a Poopoodrrrrr BOOM

Character Swing Rigging gives you the power to fully customize every part of the swing rig. Head over to the effects panel of the driver_ and see what you can create


anchor point control



Anchor Points Just Got Easier!

Are you like me? fed up with having to constantly press Y to get the pan-behind tool? Having to drag anchor points around the screen all day just to get your rotations to line up? Well, guess what? NO MORE! Use the simple built-in anchor point tool to move anchor points around the screen to, layers, masks, and the comp.

Enable That Swing

Getting super quick and smooth swinging motion has never been this easy. Simply select your layers, change the anchor points, apply the effect, and boom! you're done. add your keyframes, enable the swing and watch it move

enabling the effect

enabling reverse swing

applying wind





Features

  • True natural movements from position keyframe data
  • On and Off settings
  • Ability to set your own target data layer
  • Natural wind element, with controllable power & seed
  • Weight, that changes how the wind moves the rig
  • Parent the rig’s rotation to a different layers rotation
  • Parent the rig to other layers
  • Control over the rig’s children layers
  • Further control over individual pieces of the rig
  • Ability to control the wind element over any rig
  • Works with layers and pins
  • Ability to set anchor points to the comp, shape, and mask
  • A bin that actually works

Notes

Character Swing Rigging does not currently work with 3D puppet pins

Trial Restrictions

Trial mode limits the maximum allowed layer(s) and puppet pin(s) to 2. It also limits the use of the anchor point tool to only work with corners of the shape and comp.

User Guide

Discussions

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Head over to r/aescripts to chat with fellow users about this product.

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Version History

1.5.7 -

Aug 23, 2020

Fixed issue on some Windows systems that gave an Unable to execute script at line. undefined is not an object error on startup

1.5.6 -

Jan 9, 2020

Updated the script version so you won't get any pesky update messages while using the script.



Also added a guide in the help menu to help with a common error

1.5.5 -

Nov 1, 2019

Included support for macOS Catalina

1.5.3 -

Oct 17, 2018

Full support for After Effects 2019 with both puppet pins and layers!!



A few speed improvements to make it that much faster!

1.5.2 -

Oct 9, 2018

Bug fix for the puppet pin tool when using a non-english version of after effects

1.5.1 -

Sep 26, 2018

Quick bug fix for creating swing rigs with puppet pins

1.5 -

Sep 25, 2018

A complete overhaul and change of the engine:



Minor bug fixes!

Added more guide information

Now adding even greater precision

Now adding support for full X and Y axis swinging!

Now adding support for rotational data as well as positional data!

Now much faster!



Read below for more details!



Swing - General Settings - update:

1: Enable Swing slider instead of a checkbox now allowing you to control precisely if the swing is on or off and how much by

2: Reverse slider instead of a checkbox now allowing you to control precisely if the swing is in reverse or not

3: A new data group has been added allowing you to switch between Positional Data and Rotational Data from any layer



Wind - Global Generator - update:

1: A new reverse slider has been added to the wind settings allowing you to reverse the wind by a percentage value



Swing - Global Settings - update:

1: The Swing Settings has 2 new variables “X Axis Impact” and “Y Axis Impact” Allowing you to precisely control how much the swing is effects by the X and the Y movement of a layer



Swing - Global Child Settings - update:

1: The Swing Settings has 2 new variables “X Axis Impact” and “Y Axis Impact” Allowing you to precisely control how much the swing is effects by the X and the Y movement of a layer

2: A Swing Amount slider has been added to get greater control over the amount of swing that is applied to the children

3: A Reverse slider instead of a checkbox now allowing you to control precisely if the swing is in reverse or not



Swing - Child Settings - update:

1: The Swing Settings has 2 new variables “X Axis Impact” and “Y Axis Impact” Allowing you to precisely control how much the swing is effects by the X and the Y movement of a layer

2: A Swing Amount slider has been added to get greater control over the amount of swing that is applied to the children

3: A Reverse slider instead of a checkbox now allowing you to control precisely if the swing is in reverse or not

1.01 -

Jul 26, 2018

Bug fixes to work with older versions of Adobe After Effects



Officially supporting



After Effects CC 2018

After Effects CC 2017

After Effects CC 2015.3

After Effects CC 2015

After Effects CC 2014

After Effects CC

After Effects CS6

1.0 -

Jul 24, 2018

Initial Release

Compatibility

After Effects

2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, CS6