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

Fantastic character design and animation using Bodymovin by Zak Tietjen for School of Motion

Awesome character design and animation using Joysticks 'n Sliders, Layer Stalker and more by Gerald Mark Soto

Great character design and animation on this fantastic holiday card from SHED.  SHED's creative director is also the creator of AE Pixel Sorter and Transfusion.

Speedlag does a fantastic overview of how he created and rigged his amazing girl astronaut character using Joysticks 'n Sliders, bq_Head Rig and Duik.

Joysticks 'n Sliders rigging tutorial from Avila

A classic by Cub Studio. Fantastic character animation, design and transitions.

Nice character animation using Limber by Lucy Regan

A fantastic breakdown showing how they use Joysticks ‘n Sliders, Limber and Duik to very efficiently produce character animation by Cub Studio