Limber

For After Effects CC2018 +

$49

  • “Limber is the most intuitive rigging system I’ve used, which was a big help in making the character animation process less daunting to me." - Ben Marriott

  • “Limber makes rigging characters quick and simple, animating them light and speedy, and presenting them a delight!" - Fraser Davidson, Cub Studio

  • “Limber is amazing. Now with all of the advancements and added features, this is a multi-tool I’d recommend every animator have in their arsenal." - Seth Eckert, The Furrow

Rigging in 1-2-3

Rigging in Limber using three circles and artwork

Select three circle layers and two art layers. Click the Rig & Pose button and 💥 - it’s all embedded in a limb with perfectly rotating joints.

There’s no need to design characters in stiff poses, move anchor points or parent lots of layers.

Watch this to learn more about using your own artwork in limbs.

Don’t rig. Draw

Using the Path to Bone button in Limber

Draw a three-point path with your pen tool, click the Path to Bone button, and it’s ready to animate. It’s so effortless you’ll be wondering why it wasn’t always this easy.

You can also use this method to quickly set a limb’s pose and then apply a different style or rig artwork to it.

Built for your style

Your character tool shouldn’t limit you to a single style. Limber works with:

• Any vector artwork
• Simple, bendy paths
• Taper shapes with faux-3D rounding
• Alternatives from the limb library

Any limb can be easily duplicated or copied and pasted to another.

Simple yet powerful

Limber’s animation features are the perfect combo of simplicity and sophistication:

• Stretchiness (or non-stretchiness)
• Easy foreshortening
• Blendable FK - for cross body moves, breaking of joints and smooth arcs
• Anti-pop to smooth out walk cycles
• And more…

Made for animators. By animators

We understand what character animators need because we are experienced, working character animators. Limber has grown through being used in production, across a range of styles, with the feedback of some of the best animators in the industry. Major updates have added usability enhancements and new creative possibilities at no extra cost to our users. We’ve always believed that animation should be fun - the tools should make it easier, not more complicated.

Learn

The official Limber training series will teach you the fundamentals in lunch-hour sized chunks. Here’s part one:

The Limber User Guide is the most thorough way to learn everything Limber can do. You can also access it from within Limber itself - just click the Help button:

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Buy Limber from aescripts or download the free 10-day trial right here. Limber is made by Steve Kirby and Mike Overbeck