Because the goatee in this character is so connected to the mouth, including it in the mouth shapes could be a good option. That's how this wizard character is set up: https://youtu.be/80lVsaILT30?si=PbuyboHvd33Wn53J&t=333 But keeping it separate might be easiest. Here's how I did a bearded character's jaw movements: https://youtu.be/p05NNzb0lzo?si=5dTGBf53n5ZRC1P4&t=541 That same video has a part about a hack to get extra head tilt: https://youtu.be/p05NNzb0lzo?si=GuVlWi6e7XPk0yUM&t=749 Hope that helps! Happy rigging! ... View more

I think you might have an old cached version saved. Those extra "adobelanding" things are what I removed. So 10 rigging tips should take you to https://youtu.be/IKQi3Anuhlc. Try refreshing or use another browser or computer and lemme know if it works! ... View more

Thanks for catching this — not sure what happened but I just updated them! ... View more

If this is happening with every puppet, I feel like it has to be a permissions issue. Does CH have full read/write access of these folders? What happens if you download a character from adobe.com/go/chexamples, does that work? ... View more

Yeah at quick glance it looks like you have things set up correctly! If it's possible to share your File > Export > Puppet we can take a closer look! ... View more

Unfortunately yes, I haven't heard of any progress on this bug. I'm really sorry; I know it's frustrating to have something working and become a critical part of your workflow and then break like this. My limited understanding is that the bug is more complex than it may seem on the surface, but I don't know the specifics under the hood.   The workaround I would recommend would be what we show in the recent Express Animation tutorial. Basically, your triggered Replays become your different poses and you swap between them to achieve the pose-to-pose look. If you only wanted the head you could make a set of Face-only replays and then do the other things like arms and lip sync separately. The blend handles between poses would equate to the duration / smoothness of the transition between poses. This system is essentially what we do when creating Express characters with "automatic" animation. I know it's not the same, as pose-to-pose just worked in the background without needing this more manual setup, but it should ultimately achieve a similar effect.   Again, I'm sorry this bug has lingered for over a year without a clear fix. If anything changes I will udpate this thread, but my recommendation for the forseeable future would be to explore different workflows. ... View more

Make sure you have a valid PSD file and in Character Animator go to File > Import. You will need to be in Pro mode for this - click the upper right corner and switch from Starter to Pro if needed. If the problem persists, please upload a video or screenshot of your issue and we'll try to help you out. ... View more

Yeah I hear you. Right now most behaviors like Face, dragger, and Motion Library are based around mesh deformation, mainly for speed and ease of use. We have always wanted to support more complex rigs, and I think to truly do this we would need a clearer parent/child system. Maybe one day! Thanks for the feedback! ... View more

Has this always happened - aka, have you never been able to open up Puppet Maker on this machine? Does the rest of CH work okay for you? Did you try the suggestion of "Try quitting, then relaunch holding down the Alt key. That should open a fresh empty project."? There is also a chance that there is an administrative setting that is causing trouble, like if this is a school or work computer. ... View more

Usually this is done by adding a draggable handle to the Head group. You can try this with Chloe from the homepage example puppets - if you add draggable to her head group, you can drag her all over the scene. ... View more

I think of Motion Library as a bunch of one-off gestures. So many of them don't continue moving when they "finish," they restart and do the take over and over again. You could use the normal Walk behavior to get around this, or you could keep duplicating and blending the same take to have the character keep walking to the side. I just tried with with Sam on the home screen of the app and it worked, she kept starting and stopping.   ... View more

Okay so what's interesting there is I see .04 sec listed in that dialog. Can you please go to TImeline > Enable Work Area and make sure it's unchecked? ... View more

Sounds like you're running into issues with Walk. The Walk behavior is a simulation similar to Physics, so the effects aren't backed into your timeline, they're simulated when you scrub or playback. So your character might seem like they're jumping around. I would imagine if you removed Walk this won't be a problem anymore. Even so, Walk will not affect the X and Y Transform values, it's completely separate - so if I try the Eliza example from your other thread and do psotion based walking with her, my Transform X/Y positions are still always 0. My guess is there is a rogue keyframe or trigger or something somewhere causing issues. ... View more

How are you exporting? Through Adobe Media Encoder or just the share icon? It looks like CH is saying your scene is 30 seconds long, but my guess is the export is cutting it off for some reason. ... View more

That's the issue - you need to use the psotion keyframe in the Walk behavior, not Transform. See how I do this in the video above. ... View more

Huh interesting, I'm not sure why the controls panel is doing one thing and the key is doing another - I don't think I've seen that before. My best guess is that something in the swap sets are competing with each other, particularly since you have the same keys in multiple swap sets and different default states in each as well. I'm not sure how much individual control you want, but you could try combining multiple layers into a single swap set instead of all the multiples. So if you drag an trigger over another one, it will combine the two. Then you could potentially make one giant "poses" swap set that includes all your different states so you can always ensure that you are only seeing one of those states at a time. This is how we set up the Animate from Audio puppets for Adobe Express - they are a big swap set that we swap between individual poses. Hope that helps! ... View more