This specific tutorial is just a single movie from chapter one of the Creating Animated Characters in After Effects course presented by lynda.com author George Maestri. The complete Creating Animated Characters in After Effects course has a total duration of 3 hours and 53 minutes, and covers every step of the digital character animation process from designing to assembling character hierarchies, from automating rigs with expressions to using null objects as bones, and much more
Creating Animated Characters in After Effects table of contents:
Introduction
1. Designing Characters
2. Drawing Characters in After Effects
3. Assembling Characters Using Hierarchies
4. Working with the Puppet Tool
5. Replacement Animation
6. Automating Head Turns
7. Automating Character Rigs with Expressions
8. Advanced Puppet Tool Rigging
9. Animating a Scene
Conclusion