An in-depth 8 part series to create a highly automated rig to animate 2D characters for cartoons in After Effects. The rig is based on iExpressions 2 and the puppet tool. It features an automated walk cycle, automatically rotating wheels, secondary animations and much more. 

In part 1, create a skeleton for our character with the inverse kinematics iExpressions. The skeleton is the basis for all subsequent animation.

This is a live demo recorded at the aescripts + aeplugins booth at NAB 2014. Mathias explains how to create some motion graphics in After Effects with the help of iExpressions.

Create personalized holiday video cards for all your friends - fully automatic with data from a spreadsheet. In addition to doing such batch processes in AE, you also learn how to automatically align texts - which is crucial if you create hundreds of variants of your clip and don't want to fix each of them manually.

Learn how to dynamically connect animations of your project to markers. In particular we cover how to control a Sure Target camera with markers using iExpressions.

In this After Effects tutorial I show an automatic way how to play sounds at each marker, how to modify properties at each marker and how to time remap clips at each marker.

In this tutorial, learn how to create a logo animation using After Effects and various tools from the Trapcode Suite. To make the animation react in sync to the audio, we combine Trapcode Sound Keys with Audio iExpression

This tutorial shows how to use iExpressions and 3D Extruder to make a sound syncronized kinetic type animation. Watch for the use of Zorro to help keep the timeline organized and improve the workflow.

This tutorial shows how to make pans ultra-smooth by stabilizing them using Mocha and After Effects.