In this part add more realism to our character with secondary animations. We add a little bit of random motion since in real life people never stand 100% still. Also, we animate her chest to simulate some breathing and make her hair swing a bit when she is walking.

In this part, we connect the skeleton to our character using the puppet tool. You learn the basics, but also some advanced tips for this workflow. For example, you learn how to achieve that puppet pins on the skirt of the character are influenced by the bones of both legs simultaneously.

This is one part of a big tutorial series from Dave Legion at Aetuts+ about character animation.

In this part Dave explains how to set up the lip syncing for your puppet using Mamoworld’s Auto Lip-Sync solution. He also shares some interesting tricks and techniques along the way.