After Effects Newbie character rigging question (3D rigging)

I am evaluating the possibility to creating a 2d puppet instead, would that be a good option?

I don't see much benefit in using Animate as I need to transfer everything to Efter Effects afterwards... I am a little rusty with the new version of Animate (I used Flash CS5 at the time), but I think that there is a 3d camera as well on it now.. I don't know, I am really confused 😄

AE has no dedicated character rigging tools and the default 3D is more like 2.5 D - flat planes in space. All that being the case it's probably fair to say that you are a far, far way from truly being able to achieve much. Rigging would require to use expressions and tools like DuIK, which in itself adds its own level of complication, you'd ahve to have a fundamental understanding how parenting, pre-composition, coolapsed transformations and other things interact with one another and affect the render pipeline, you'd have to have a good understanding of AE's basic keyframing and concepts like time-remapping and so on. All of that in itself presents a steep challenge. You have to essentially to learn the whole of AE instead of such a limited sub-set of features because it ultimately was never specifically designed with CA in mind. Pretty much everything is a workaround or a creatively sideways used feature. All that being the case, if at all you probably should start in Character Animator and then import files created there into AE for refinement work, but otherwise even some 3D program as unintuitive as Blender is easier to learn and offers better features for CA.

Mylenium

Hi
Since your question is about After Effects, I have moved this from the "Get Started" forum for you.
~ Jane