A panel to automate After Effects rigging tasks. Highlights include baking keyframes, mapping pins to nulls, onion skinning, side and front rigs that lip-sync to audio, and a "handheld" camera effect. Works great as a companion to KinectToPin.
AEToolbox UI panel
Copyright (c) 2013 Nick Fox-Gieg & Victoria Nece
http://kinecttopin.com
FEATURES:
I. BASIC
1. Nulls for Pins (layer selection): Creates a controller null for each puppet pin on a layer.
2. Parent Chain (layer selection): Parent a chain of layers one to another.
3. Locator Null...
(layer selection): Creates a new null at the location of each selected layer.
(no selection): Creates a new null in the center of the comp.
4. Move to Position (layer selection): Moves all layers to the location of the last selected layer.
5. Bake Keyframes (layer selection): Bakes expressions and puppet pins to keyframes.
6. Make Loop...
(layer selection): Puts a cycle expression on Time Remap.
(property selection): Puts a cycle expression on the selected properties.
7. Onion Skin (no selection): Creates an adjustment layer that applies an onion skin effect.
II. RIGGING
1. Blink Control (comp selection): Turns a blink layer inside the comp on and off.
2. Jaw Rig Side (comp selection): Rigs a jaw layer inside the comp for audio control.
3. Jaw Rig Front (comp selection): Rigs a jaw layer inside the comp for audio control.
4. Snake Rig (layer selection): Rigs a puppet-pin layer for automated snake-like movement.
5. Beam Rig (no selection): Creates a 3D laser effect with start and end nulls.
6. Particle Rig (no selection): Creates a null controller for Particular particles.
7. Camera Rig (no selection): Creates a camera rigged for point-of-interest and DoF control.
III. ADVANCED
1. Lock Y Rotation (layer selection): Forces a layer to always face the camera.
2. Auto Z Rotation (layer selection): Smart 2D auto-rotation.
3. Parentable Null (layer selection): Creates a null with expressions that solve certain parenting problems.
4. Sine Generator (layer selection): Applies sine-wave motion controls to a layer.
5. 3D MoSketch (no selection): Creates a null with 3D controls for use with Motion Sketch.