You might think that animating a character in After Effects requires at the very least, DUIK, or perhaps some other suite of plugins. This is not necessarily true.
[pullquote]how to animate ANY character inside of after effects WITHOUT plugins![/pullquote]After Effects, at its core, has everything you would need for a rudimentary character rig, and that is Parenting.
You can get away with quite a lot in animation by using hierarchal structures. Proving that point is We Are Popo’s Yassine Boutaib, who walks us through a simple, but really great character in After Effects he did, using no special third party tools.
Yassine emphasizes starting with thumbnails and drawings first, which is something that a few tutorials tend to leave out.
