I compiled this list of subjects of things I learned while getting into KK and CharaStudio. Aside from the intro and the basics, the rest of the subjects are not in "order you should learn". Just pick what interests you.

There is also a lot of knowledge shared on the Discord in #guides and discussed on #studio-chatter

Also, checking good animations and learning from them. sixpluswan and Yurabe on pixiv make great scenes for free.

- Intro to CharaStudio and posing (you can check their other videos too) -

1. Playlist of basics (Youtube)
2. Intro to CharaStudio (Youtube)
3. Navigating the Studio interface (Discord PDF)

- Some basic animation and timeline guides (Youtube) -

1. Timeline guide, animating in koikatsu - yurikha
2. KK Timeline Tutorial - Scratch Key

- Using Animation Presets -

How to insert preset animation into timelines, Animation Baking (Discord) and How to adjust a baked animation (Discord)

Full example of converting a preset to a Timeline animation with an adjustable and animatable armature (Discord)

- Animation Armature -

Using ShalltyUtils folder armature to animate, rather than animating on the character itself (Discord)

- Lighting -

This is a pretty big subject on its own, so I placed it into a separate guide on lighting

- Attaching things together (Syncing Pos/Rot/Scale) -

Learn to attach items/body parts together or to surfaces with NodeConstraints (Discord)

- Advanced bone and body controls -

Get confortable with KKPE (bottom left) and the advanced KKPE menu (right-click KKPE). You can pose FK bones here even when you have IK or FK&IK active.

- Camera -

The camera view is what you currently see, you can place the view where you need it and keyframe it with the Camera interpolables. In the keyframes menu, change the curve to the abrupt Stairs Curve (should be last) to make the transition between camera angles instant.

- Expressions -

If you don't want to be limited to the basic facial controls in anim->Kinematic, check BlendShapes tab in the advanced KKPE menu for more precise expression control (YouTube). You can also save/load presets, here's a Blenshapes pack shared in #studio-chatter (Discord).

Another tool is ExpressionController (link), which has some default expressions and simple slider. Good for posing, but for animation you will still need to keyframe the individual BlendShapes and expression components

- Insertions -

If you don't want to keyframe insertions look into BetterPenetration (anim->Status->Uncensor , set a BP for both actors), either with default genitals or using a penis item (Discord).

For more versatile options using penis items and toys, check this post on insertions

- Collisions -

A lot of collision aspects need to be animated manually, but:

• There are some default colliders you can enable in anim>Status

• You can adjust Dynamic Bones with KKPE or use Dynamic Bone Collider items to affect certain dynamic bones (Discord) (such as skirt/hair/boob/vagina bones)

- Adding SFX to timeline -

1. Using sound from an mp4 or audio file with the VNGE plugin (Discord) (is not synced to Timeline, it either plays uninterrupted or is reset)
2. Using KK sound mods and keyframing the sounds (Discord)