AA doesn't work when you have a character on a transparent background. Otherwise, it will look like it has an awful whitish outline, like when you magic wand something in Photoshop.
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You can also AA internally, such as use the darkest and second darkest of the bone/glove gradient to AA the bone against the shadow.