If you’re totally new to character animation in After Effects, there’s no quicker or easier way to get started than with Limber Lite. In this short video I’ll show you how to add limbs to a simple character and make them work within the animation.

If you’re totally new to character animation in After Effects, there’s no quicker or easier way to get started than with Limber Lite. In this short video I’ll show you the basics of how it works and how to alter the look of the limbs to suit different characters.

Keyframe Academy explains why  Limber is the easiest character rigging tool out there for Adobe After Effects.

Five fully rigged and animated characters using Limber for After Effects 2020 and newer.

Great character animation created using Joysticks 'n Sliders by Motion Bogdan. Includes process reel.

A good tutorial on how to use Joysticks 'n Sliders  for head rigging in After Effects by ricksli.motion. Includes project download.

Adme showcases how they incorporated Randomatic 2 into their automated character animation workflow.

The formidable Evan Abrams explains IK and FK in After Effects and how Limber, iExpressions and Character Tool use them. 

Master character animator DeeKay Know does a great explanation on how he created his latest masterpiece using Character Tool.

We are happy to be sponsoring the latest character animation challenge from @MotionMarkus and Motion Design School by giving away Character Tool, Swiss Knife, Super Morphins to the lucky winners.

In this tutorial, I'm going to give you a quick jumpstart into Limber. I'll show you the basics of making and styling new limbs, how to rig them to a character, how to use FK, and how to scale limbs within the finished rig.

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you Limber’s new Rig & Pose functions which allow you to add your own artwork to limbs as well as a method for setting limb properties based on reference layers.

Learn how to use SF-Caddy for quick and easy lip sync in After Effects

Great character animation study using Limber by Quadratlimit

Character Swing Rigging and Joysticks 'n Sliders character rigging and animation tutorial by Ina

No Magnolia has a great write-up on how they are using Limber in their character animation workflow.

In this tutorial, backwoods animation walks you through a shoulder rotation using Joysticks 'n Sliders.

A quick look at animating characters in After Effects using Joysticks 'n Sliders and Duik by backwoods animation

Explainer created using Explode Shape Layers, Ray Dynamic Color, AfterCodecs, GifGun, EaseCopy in After Effects by Adrian Moran

Learn how to create a character animation template library using Rigomator in After Effects by Ina