New Panel for After Effects
Name your layers like a character, press Rig, and you get hands and feet you can drag, elbows and knees that bend the right way, and a picker to grab any part. RigKit does the setup so the time goes into the animation.
How it works
RigKit reads your layer names, finds the arm, leg, head and body parts, and builds the controls on top. Your artwork stays as it is.
Upper arm L, forearm L, hand L… any of 14 naming styles. Anchor points on the joints.
Scan the comp, check the map on Noodle, press Rig character. IK and controllers go on.
Drag hands and feet, key poses from the picker, add a walk cycle or squash in a click.
Everything inside
From your own layers, or a quick character to start from.
The picker and the poses, where most of the time goes.
Motion that loops, from sliders on the master.
The secondary motion that makes it feel alive.
The details
RigKit adds controllers and expressions on top of your layers. Nothing is precomposed, redrawn or replaced.
Rigging reproduces the pose you drew exactly — also on mirrored limbs — and only changes when you drag.
Nulls, sliders and expressions. The project opens and renders on any machine, even without RigKit.
Rig, pose, bake or flip — Ctrl/Cmd + Z puts it back in one step.
Save a character setup and build it again in the next project.
RigKit sits next to MotionKit: the same panel design, the same status bar, the same way of working.
Install
RigKit is a signed extension, like the rest of MotionLabs. No Terminal, no developer tools. Same steps on macOS and Windows.
One signed .zxp file and your licence key, from Gumroad · €15. One licence, up to 5 computers.
Get the free ZXP Installer from aescripts, open it and drag the .zxp onto the window.
Paste your licence key once and press Activate. Restart After Effects, then Window → Extensions → RigKit. Dock it next to your timeline.
FAQ
€15, once. One licence works on up to 5 computers and includes every 1.x update. The demo at the top of this page is the real panel, so you can try every tab before you buy.
Something like Upper arm L, Forearm L, Hand L, Thigh R, Torso, Head. RigKit reads 14 styles (arm_upper_l, L-UpperArm, braço sup E…), and shows you what it found before it rigs.
Only anchor points on the joints: the shoulder for the upper arm, the elbow for the forearm and so on. Parenting is done for you.
Yes. Everything it builds is nulls, sliders and expressions — native After Effects.
After Effects 2023 and later, on macOS and Windows.