Become a Duik Certified Expert or Instructor

Join a worldwide community of advanced users of Duik, and show your expertise with the certification label for experts or instructors.

Duik Certified Experts have an in-depth knowledge about Duik, Adobe After Effects, character rigging and more generally what is needed to achieve the best animations.

Duik Certified Instructors are also certified experts, and adhere to strict guidelines in order to provide the best training experience about Duik, After Effects and character rigging to other professionals or students.

Program Benefits

Duik Certified Expert or Instructor digital badge
Use of Duik Certified Expert or Instructor logo (on your website, your tutorials, your documents…)
Listing and contact form on Duik Certified Experts and Instructors page on rainboxlab.org and carpemedia.fr
Access to a private online community and chat channels gathering all experts and instructors

Program Requirements

Duik Certified Expert

Proof of 2+ years experience as an After Effects expert and Duik user (demo reel, resume, Adobe Certified Expert or Instructor…)
Pass the Duik Certified Expert exam.

Duik Certified Instructor

Pass the Duik Certified Expert exam*.
Pass the Duik Certified Instructor exam*.

*Both exams must be passed with the same version of Duik.

Recommended Qualifications

At a minimum, the candidate seeking to become a Duik Certified Expert or Instructor should:

Have a minimum of 4 years of experience using After Effects
Have a minimum of 1 year of experience using Duik
Complete training courses for Duik or self-study training

At a minimum, the candidate seeking to become a Duik Certified Instructor should also:

Have a minimum of 2 years of experience of teaching, ideally with a focus on After Effects or Duik.

Exams Information

Certified Expert

In Lille, France or online
French or English
Duration: 1 day
Two phases: questions (1h), exercises (6h)
Price: between 50€ and 200€ depending on your country.

Certified Instructor

In Lille, France or online
French or English
Duration: 1 day
Three phases: questions (30mn), exercises (5h30), interview (1h)
Price: between 50€ and 200€ depending on your country.

Exams Objectives and Scope

After Effects

Have an in-depth knowledge about After Effects with a focus on motion design, rigging and animation: parenting and coordinates, precompositions, performance issues, expressions, shape layers, animation and graph editor, puppet tool, installing and using scripts.
Write simple and advanced expressions (using conditions, interpolation functions such as linear(), using variables…) working with all the languages of After Effects.

Animation

Realistically animate any object with weight and momentum, follow through and overlap.
Know the basics of character animation such as anticipation, staging, follow through, overlap…

Duik

Rig any animal or mechanic (biped, quadruped, insects, fishes, trucks, excavator, gears…)
Rig faces, including mouth shapes and phonemes, head turn, expressions and eye blinks.
Rig clothes, folds, hair, and all props.
Understand and use all constraints.
Use and tweak all automations, especially the kleaner, the randomize tool, the walk cycle, the effectors…
Master the connector and all kind of connections
Blend animations with the animation blender
Master camera animation
Understand all tools available in Duik

Certified Instructor

Know the details about the free license of Duik (GNU GPLv3)
Translate or modify the translations of Duik
Install, fix, uninstall Duik
Be able to find detailed information about Duik and any of its features
Provide an extensive educational support
Create precise and reliable pedagogical content and teaching materials

Recommended Sources for Exam Preparation

The official Duik Certification Preparation Course.

If you are already experienced with After Effects and you already know the basics of Duik, we provide an official 4-day preparation course, optionally including the exams for the expert and instructor certifications during a 5th and 6th days.
This course can be followed face-to-face or online, in partnership with Carpe Media.

The official character rigging course with Duik Bassel will teach you all the basics about Duik (9 hours).

Note that this course does not provide all the knowledge needed to pass the Duik Certified Expert exam, and you’ll need to continue learning Duik, gain more experience, or follow the official preparation course to complete your knowledge.

The official comprehensive course about animation will teach you all the animation basics you need to pass the Duik Certified Expert exam.
Our partner Carpe Media proposes several courses about animation, After Effects, and Duik, for beginners and intermediate level.
The Printed User Guide is a handy book with the comprehensive documentation.
The Online Documentation contains up-to-date information about everything for all the tools of Duik.
We keep a curated list of tutorials about Duik here.

Frequently Asked Questions

Still have some questions about the Certification Program? You will probably find answers in the FAQ here.

Next Sessions

Each exam (expert or instructor) lasts one day.
The preparation course lasts 4 days and is always followed by an expert exam, and an instructor exam a few days later.