Tuesday, February 11th, 2025Posted by Jim ThackerRichard Rosenman releases IK Studio for After Effectshtml PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"Tools developer Richard Rosenman has released IK Studio 1.0, a new IK solver for After Effects.The blazing fast native plugin generates a characters joint angles using inverse kinematics, speeding up character animation workflows.A fast IK Solver for After Effects, specialized on rigging arms and legsIK Studio generates joint angles using inverse kinematics, enabling an animator to pose a characters limbs by moving their hands and feet, rather than posing each joint individually.Although it can be used as a more general-purpose IK solver, its specifically designed for arms and legs, with presets for clothing styles and limb end caps.Users can also customize the proportions of the limbs and their curvature, making it possible to create rubber hose-style animation.Although other After Effects character rigging toolkits both free tools like Duik and commercial tools like Limber include IK capabilities, Rosenman cites IK Studios performance.As a fully multithreaded native After Effects plugin, IK Studio is described as blazing fast; and is compatible with After Effects Multi-Frame Rendering system.We dont often cover 2D animation, but you can find more details on IK Studio via the link at the foot of the story, and more details on Richard Rosenmans other After Effects plugins here.Price and system requirementsIK Studio 1.0 is compatible with After Effects CS6+ on Windows 7+ only. It costs $49.99. Find more details on IK Studio for After Effects on the product websiteHave your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we dont post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects.Latest NewsFree tools: Render Manager and Light Editor for BlenderVFX artist Robert Rioux's handy add-ons streamline the process of managing lights and render layers within complex production scenes.Tuesday, February 11th, 2025Richard Rosenman releases IK Studio for After EffectsNew native After Effects plugin provides a fast, efficient way to create IK rigs for arms and legs for character animation.Tuesday, February 11th, 2025Topaz Labs releases Gigapixel 8.2Updated: AI app for upresing photos and 3D renders gets generative AI-based upscaling model; option to batch process images in the cloud.Monday, February 10th, 2025See CG benchmarks for NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUsDiscover how NVIDIA's Blackwell GPUs performed in CG software like 3ds Max, Arnold, Blender, Maya, UE5 and V-Ray in our early tests. Friday, February 7th, 2025Chaos releases Beta 2 of the new V-Ray for BlenderUpdated: New free public beta build of the long-awaited Blender integration for V-Ray based on the V-Ray 7 core is now availableFriday, February 7th, 2025Review: Huion Kamvas 22 Plus pen displayThe Kamvas 22 Plus is an affordable pen display for beginners and pro artists on a budget. See how it handled 3D as well as 2D workflows.Thursday, February 6th, 2025More NewsCETA Software launches Artist AccessTutorials: Creating a Character for Games - Vol. 1 and Vol. 2LightWave Digital previews LightWave 2025Check out the new features in the ForestPack 9.1 updatesSee five great VFX breakdowns from the 2025 V-Ray showreelHow Vine FX created a parasitic underwater forest for The RigBoris FX releases Optics 2025Thinkinetic releases Pulldownit 6 for MayaAdobe launches unmetered access to Substance 3D AssetsAdobe releases Photoshop 26.3Check out free Android and iOS 3D scanning app RealityScan 1.6Free tool: Animation Render Time Estimator for BlenderOlder Posts