Limber 2: Best After Effects Rigging Tool (v2.1.2)

Limber is a powerful yet easy-to-use rigging plugin for After Effects that will make your character animation quick, flexible, and fun (or at least less painful). Create working limbs from vector paths, raster layers, and basic shapes with drawing and clicking. No need to fiddle with parented anchor points and manual parenting!

Limber is accessible to beginner animators yet sophisticated enough for professional character animators, making it useful across all animation styles and advanced rigging conventions.

Some great features of Limber:

Ultimate Rigging Tool

• Rig vector art, raster art, .ai files, precomps, puppet-pinned layers, and shape layers
• Multiple rigging conventions for ultimate flexibility—Rig & Pose and Path to Bone
• Zero need to move anchor points or manually parent layers

IK/ FK/ FreeK Modes

• IK (Inverse Kinematics)
• Stretchy limbs optional
• Anti-pop walk cycles
• Foreshortening is easy (use separate lengths for each limb)
• FK (Forward Kinematics)
• Use for overlapping motion, joint breaking, cross-body movement, and cleaner arcs.
• FreeK Mode
• For front-facing walk/run cycles
• Realistic elbows
• For dimensional moves that IK/ FK can’t do alone.

Limb Library v2

• Web-based library of full integration
• 100+ limb presets (ready-made) that you can download on the spot and into your project
• Poses saved in the Library

Workflow Enhancements

• Auto-flop: Switch limbs on the fly without leaving IK mode.
• 3-Bone Limbs: For animals, insects, fingers, or more complex  anatomy.
• Scaling: Simple, clean scaling at any resolution without breaking the rig.

Visual & UI Elements

• Dynamic UI Panel, Dynamic Panel Resizing with Adaptive Layout
• Rich dialogs with visual guides/text hints
• Faux-3D tapers