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ramont62032238
Participant
September 15, 2023

Puppet moving all over the place when in record mode

  • September 15, 2023
  • 5 replies
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Hello! I'm new using Character Animator. I'm trying to create my own puppet using" Chloe" puppet from the puppets library. I could attach my head and move my hair, but now, every time I get back to the Record section, my puppet is jumping all ove rthe place. Any recomendation how to fix this problem? I'm a ttaching a video so you can see the problem. Thank you in advance.

Here is the video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aPQIOA_q_3lj7wXwKm3Bbd7t1ZH_dyIu/view?usp=sharing

 

5 replies

Adobe Employee
October 3, 2023

The random movement is coming from the eye gaze behavior. You can confirm this by disabling the eye gaze behavior.

 

If you want the eye gaze to work, you need to fix a few things:

  • Eyegaze-related tags ("Left/Right Pupil" and "Left/Right Pupil Size") are all on the Right Eyebrow. You need to tag the pupil layers properly.
  • Everything moves around with the eye gaze because most of your layers are dependent (uncrowned), including the Right Eyebrow. This makes the dependent layers to be stuck together.

 

I'd suggest watching this tutorial video:

https://youtu.be/5SxNChhm0jo?si=HLmyTRVoPcuZigyf

 

Good luck!

ramont62032238
Participant
October 3, 2023

I'm including the  zip file. Let me know if you could open it and work on it this time.

Thank you in advance.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fSJqC3f8qvWRbPeXMmM32nyPDRhU8Bx0/view?usp=sharing 

TheOriginalGC
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 21, 2023

The project file by itself is not useful - we would need the entire folder in a zip file. Alternatively, you can export the puppet itself using the export options.

ramont62032238
Participant
September 21, 2023
Thank you very much for your quick response. I'm including the link to
download the project from Drive:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J45QxoqD8hPVzlkb7-ltIcCacHD6829a/view?usp=sharing

Let me know in case you couldn't open the file.

Thank you again!
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Dr. Ramón Talavera Franco, Ed.D.
Bilingual eLearning Experience Designer
Adobe Employee
September 16, 2023

You may want to check your Face behavior parameters. In particular, "Head Position Strength" may be too high, along with "Pose-to-Pose movement set to a relatively high value.

 

We can be more specific if you can share your puppet on cloud storage like Dropbox/Google Drive/Creative Cloud.

 

If you are sharing screenshots, showing all parameters of all behaviors, especially the Face behavior, will help. Since you have the body tracker turned off in your video, showing the Body behavior parameters do not really help us.