Rigsmith reads your layered character with the power of a frontier AI vision model and builds a real Duik rig in a few minutes — bones, IK, controllers, all of it. You animate; it does the setup.
Every cut-out character is the same forty clicks — every time, before a single frame moves.
Now run that for a cast of twelve — six hours of the exact same setup before a single character moves, and none of it ever shows up on screen.
Drop in a character — one body part per layer — and hit rig. Rigsmith reads the geometry and the pixels, finds every joint, sets clean anchors, builds real Duik bones, wires the controllers, and checks each one holds. Headless, in a few minutes. What took half an hour now takes two — character after character.
Computed from the artwork — shoulders on the shoulder, not floating mid-arm.
Real bones, IK, controllers and anchors, built the way Duik expects.
Tall, squat, stylised or realistic — it measures each one instead of forcing a template.
Rig one, reset, rig the next — a scene of characters stops being a lost afternoon.
Drives the rig through the project directly. Never fights you for the cursor.
A native panel on your active comp. No export/import dance.
One character after another — every build, every proportion
Placing joints well isn't mechanical — it's judgment. A weaker model mis-reads the character and hands you a rig you fix by hand. A frontier model sees it right the first time.
Now multiply by a cast. Paying for the model that gets it right beats saving pennies on the one that makes you do it twice.
No Claude account? Rigsmith still rigs from the artwork's geometry — Opus just turns a decent rig into a clean one. Recommended, not required.
Buy now and you get free updates for life — and a front-row seat as the rest arrives.
Full auto-rig — joints, bones, IK, controllers, verified.
Smart Rig on OpenAI (Codex) & Gemini too — not just Claude.
Auto-built controls that make characters easy to animate.
No subscription, no per-rig fees. The AI runs on your own Claude login, so there's nothing to meter. Pay once — and if it's not for you, a 7-day money-back guarantee.
7-day money-back guarantee — rig your real characters; not for you? Email us for a full refund.
Runs in After Effects · connect your own Claude login (Pro or Max) for the Opus vision that gives the cleanest rigs — not required.
Rigsmith is a native After Effects extension (a .zxp). Download it, install, and paste your license key — Quick rig works right away.
Duik (free) must be installed in After Effects — Rigsmith drives it to build the rig. Works with Duik Angela (v17+, recommended) or the classic Duik Bassel 2 — pick which you have in the panel's Settings.
Duik is free and open-source, made by RxLaboratory — Rigsmith would not exist without it. If it saves you time, please consider donating to them. We are independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by RxLaboratory.
Open the downloaded file with a free ZXP installer — the aescripts ZXP installer or Anastasiy's Extension Manager. (Adobe retired the built-in one.)
In After Effects: Window → Extensions → Rigsmith. It docks like any other panel.
Paste your license key into the panel. Quick rig runs immediately; connect Claude in Settings for Smart rig.
Get back a real Duik rig in a few minutes, and spend your day on the part you actually love.
Rig your own characters — risk-free,
with a 7-day money-back guarantee.
Rigsmith gets better when animators tell us what they need. Have a feature idea, a workflow that'd save you hours, or want to team up on something? Send it over — we read every message and reply by email.