This is a quick overview of Aetuts+’s “How To Create And Rig A Realistic Puppet” Series. We will be posting a new chapter every day or so for the entire month of October. There are 17 parts total so check it regularly!
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By Adam Everett Miller
I am the editor of Aetuts+. Originally from Minnesota, I moved to Virginia in 2004 where I met my insanely hot wife and now work on cool projects with some good friends.
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Can’t wait for this
This is honestly one of the coolest projects I have ever seen done totally in AE. I’m excited to go through the whole tut.
Awesome… I’ve been looking for something like this for years
I have been lucky enough to get a look at the whole series. I was asked to do a fact check. You are in for a real treat
Daniel does an awesome job of making even the most complex notions simple.
Wow that is so cool, I did an animation with puppet tool took me forever because to the tweaking involved
the 3D head is the most amazing show us moooorrrrrreeee
This looks promising, up till the point you said it’s not a step by step to show us how you did all that, in any case, I’ll take a look, it looks like you really out done yourself, either way. Thank you.
Thanks for the interest in the videos!
The reason they aren’t step by step is because a lot of the procedures are repetitive and unique to the individual puppet. The goal is to demonstrate how to achieve the affect so that you can experiment with your own puppets. I think if I made a step by step it would be a 10 hour video. It takes me about 5 days to draw, paint and rig one of these guys and each one requires a variation on the approach I outline in the videos.
I am hoping that you will be shocked at how simple the concepts behind this are and will be able to easily appropriate for your own, all the while improving upon the basic techniques. In fact, I am certain that there are even easier ways to achieve these results and someone out there will have the answer.
Again, thanks again for the support and interest!
Dan
Your video is amazing, i like it but where is the part 2 ???
haha, I was just about to say that this looks like a very similar technique used by Daniel Gies:
http://www.vimeo.com/20889371
But then realised that it is his work! Looks good.
Since the birth of ae tuts, this could be the most exciting series, I’ve seen… can’t wait
Now this is more like it! Back to the good ol’ days of AETUTS. We need more tutorials like this! Awesome.
I’m very excited for this series! And I really like the month long approach, so we can dig deeper into concepts of design, not just follow along tutorials.
Can’t wait!
OMFG this looks good.
very, very excited to see this series!
Awesome…I can not wait to see, I’m excited…
wow amazing that you do man,I will love to see the tutorial, keep up the great work.
Seriously its gonna a be a great series. Thanks a lot AETUTS.
I’ll start practicing with Freeform and IK for this. GREAT JOB im pumped!!
Really, that’s amazing! This gonna be epic!
I’m practicing with Freeform right now! ^^
Yay! Just like you promised. Thanks Daniel. Looking forward to the rest.
I’m usually not that good at posting comments on tutorials but this looks, in all aspects, nothing short of amazing! In true Apple-presentation style I’ll just say: magical, fantastic, absolutely amazing, spectacular, amazing (once more for good measure)
Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge!
Wowwwwwww, amazing!!! Thanks man, this WILL come handy!
Are the parts created in 3d? Sorry if I missed that.
Disregard. Saw the second post after.
Respect
Excuse my pettiness but wasn’t the first part supposed to lunch on the 3rd of October like a few days ago?
(can’t wait to see it….:)
WOW! the best tutorial in the AETuts history
Your excitement is palpable!! It makes me quite excited to see what I could learn from these techniques!