If you want to stop being an animator who struggles with rigs and become an animator who builds them – and you’re willing to wrestle with expressions for 15 hours a week – take this course. If not, hire a rigger. Sample Job Description Benefit (For Your Resume) "Completed School of Motion’s Rigging Academy: Proficient in building custom After Effects character rigs with IK/FK switching, slider-based UI controllers, automated walk cycles, and advanced expressions (toWorld/fromWorld, loopOut, linear mapping)."
Overview Rigging Academy is an advanced, 6-week bootcamp offered by School of Motion (SoM), taught by professional rigger and animator Morgan Williams (co-founder of BattleAxe). Unlike general animation courses, this class focuses exclusively on the technical and logical side of After Effects: building character rigs, user interfaces (UI), sliders, walk cycles, and automated systems. School of Motion - Rigging Academy
Rigging is 70% math/logic. This course demystifies intimidating expressions ( valueAtTime() , loopOut() , ternary operators). By Week 3, students who feared code are writing conditional statements. If you want to stop being an animator
