Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago

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In this After Effects tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a hand rig without plug ins. We use the Create Nulls from Paths script and the linear expressions. It makes animating fingers much easier and quicker.

Content:
0:00 Hand rig in After Effects
0:36 Creating the first finger
1:47 Linking the joints of the finger
2:30 Adding a Slider Control and expression
4:33 Animating with expressions in After Effects
5:22 Setting up the rig
6:05 Next

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