Today we had a quest who actually did his course at Ulster back in 2014, Paul McGra, who works in 16 south studios and actually worked on his own show, Bee and Ladybird. and actually also worked on Happy the Hedgehog, a property by Paper Owl Studios which I actually tried to apply for as a trainee animator.
I actually have experience with using Duik with an assignment back when I was studying at the Belfast Met.
Paul created a character out of individual rectangles in their own separate layers in Photoshop and Illustrator, and recommends labelling Left Hand elements A and right hand elements B. He then creates a new composition in After effects and puts it in 16:9 Format and sets it to 25fps.
Duik can be installed by going to the scriptUI folder and copy paste it into Script UI panels. located in the scripts folder in the support files folder in the file After Effects.
There is another piece of software we can use called Celaction. By importing elements from Photoshop by going to File->image file->import to bring in sims.
We can change the mode to wireframe mode to aid animating.