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dschertz
dschertz
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January 18, 2025

Masking issue - Illustrator to Character Animator

  • January 18, 2025
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Pulling up an old character file that has clipping masks for each mouth viseem. I tweaked one of the mouths and when syncing back to character animator the mask is now gone. 

 

I then tried recreating the clipping mask in character animator but you can see (3.png) that it is maksing incorrectly. Therefor I have come to the conclusing that but lies with Character Animator. 
 
System info
    Application: Character Animator v25.0.0.46

                          Illustrator 29.2.1
    OS: macOS v15.1.0, RAM: 16.00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 10

3 replies

TheOriginalGC
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TheOriginalGCCommunity Expert
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January 22, 2025

I really can't speak for the development side of the software. I'm just a volunteer here myself.

dschertz
dschertzAuthor
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January 21, 2025

I tried exporting the ai file as a psd, but some layers didn't save over. I ultimatly duplicated each mouth layer, then used the pathfinder to intersect each layer to get a custom shape. Not ideal, but its a workaround that still works in CH and allows the layers to remain vectors. Would love to see Adobe fund the CH team more to fix some of these bugs, and allow them to cross collaborate with the Illustrator and Photoshop teams a little more. Development seems stale. 

TheOriginalGC
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TheOriginalGCCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 21, 2025

CH has problems with the clipping mask in AI. Is it possible to expand the shapes to render them without the clipping mask?

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