After Effects Character Animation Practice - Pivots, Parenting and the Puppet Tool

Today I talked to a few second year students in regards to their possible assistance in animating the characters for my film. I got a good feedback and the students seemed interested in having a go at After Effects character animation. I have given them my contact details and have said I will put together a small test project in AE for them to have a go at. I showed them this test piece of William dancing that I started today using William and they liked the effect of simple design emphasised by simple animation.

(AE screenshot showing layer hierarchy)

Next stage - using graphs to nail the animation