This actually represents part six in David Legion’s adventures into rigging and animating lip sync for a character in After Effects. In this installment, David shows a pretty clever solution for creating hair for the character that can swing with the movement of the puppet’s head.
We’ll use 3D layers and some clever expressions to create a swinging head of hair for the puppet head
As we have seen with the previous lessons, a crutial component to pulling off facial animation in After Effects is Mettle’s FreeForm plugin, and David shows how to have After Effects layers work with 3D Plugins to built the final hair rig.
Check out the tutorial for Rigging Character’s Hair in After Effects With 3D Layers and Expressions here.
