BAO Bones for After Effects offers an impressive rigging and animation tool while eliminating the complexity of traditional techniques. Users must only click three times to achieve the best results while setting up the rig and skeleton. From there, users are ready to use inverse kinematic (IK) rigs and have well-defined distortion on their animation tools.

BAO Plugins – BAO Bones Features

• Smooth skinning: The product provides mesh distortion masks that guarantee smooth skinning without artifacts.
• Puppeteer: This makes animation more effective, allowing control of multiple Bones instances from a single layer.
• Bones overlaps manager: This new module makes it possible to define and animate a Z value at the start and end of each mesh, like the Puppet Tool overlaps.
• Adding children to bones: Child-parent relationships at any level within the skeleton give more freedom and structure to the bone system.
• Scaling parts of the IK chain: This development improves the control of the IK chain and provides many possibilities for scaling.

BAO Bones Documentation

Image 1: Puppeteer enables you to manage multiple instances of Bones from a single layer.

Image 2: Bones allows you to utilize masks to define the distortion mesh, enabling ultra-smooth skinning without any artifacts.