Rig and stroke question

Question

Hi there, New to Character Animator but well versed in After Effects. I have taken on an animation project that I'm pretty sure I can complete in After Effetcs alon but would much rather use CA for more realistic body tracking etc. My problem is the characters are basically shaped like Mike Wazowski from Monters Inc. The rigging seems a little tricky as there is a lot of distortion to the body when the arms and legs move. Also, the character has a black stroke effect around it which is fin in the T pose but side on view creates a problem. You will see from the atached image, one leg on the side pose is connected to the body and the other is behind, Any help on the best way to rig this would be great. I have tried removing the stroke from the character and adding it back in in After Effetcs but the results are not great, lots of jaggies.

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TheOriginalGC · Answer

You have certainly come up with a conundrum, haven't you? I can't think of any techniques in CH that would solve your problem. I do recall doing some interesting effects in Adobe Animate (though it was probably still called Flash back then) where a collection of shapes would animate inside of a movie clip which then had the visual effects applied to it. That way, we were able to take a bunch of elipses and apply transparancy to the whole clip to make it look like undulating smoke. To be honest, I don't remember if it's possible to apply an outline to the clip. Animate doesn't have the motion tracking that CH has, but it does allow you to synchronize mouth movements with an audio track if that helps.

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