Star Wars BD-1: Character Animation

Star Wars BD-1: Character Animation

I'm playing Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order at the moment, which has a little droid named BD-1 that is basically an inquisitive puppy. I drew the body in illustrator, and rigged it in After Effects using the DUIK plug-in. This is the first time I've used it and it made the whole process a million times easier. Using the inverse kinematic system allowed me to just animate the feet and body, and let DUIK calculate all the rotation of the legs itself.

For the head, I wanted to add some rotation animation to it, so used C4D to model it. I used sketch & toon cel shading to keep it in the vector style, and just rendered it out normally and attached it to the rig.