Character Animator

Is there a way (via script or otherwise) to automatically render individual layers or groups of layers to PNG sequences?  For example, characterRightArm, characterLeftArm, characterShirt, etc, for each animation.  Right now I manually turn on and off layers for each render and animation, which is very time consuming.  Coming from After Effects, I would usually write a script for this.

I looked over amazon.com hoping to find something on the order of "AE Character Animation for Dummies". Found nothing. Am I just not asking the question correctly?

Hi, I made a 30 scene where I have a character walking for a few seconds and then he stops. I have it under Position Based. I keyframed where I wanted it to start and end. It worked fine. I want the puppet to swing his arms for 10 seconds, have them up in the air, have then stay like that but the puppet keeps walking. I wanted the puppet to swing his arms for for 10 seconds and then have the arms stop swinging. This is what I did:1) I started my scene from the beginning again and I pressed the Arm Swing Stop watch to add the keyframe. The number was at 0 2) I moved the playhead to 10 seconds and I changed the number on Arm Swing to another number where the arms are in the air. 3) This where I want the arms to stop swinging and remain in the air as the rest of the puppet keeps walking untill it stops 20 scconds later. 4) I right clicked on the 2nd keyframe of the Arm Swing. 5) I pressed Toggle Hold Keyframe6) I restarted the scene from the beginning an

I really like the new background images included in the latest Beta release [v. 22.5 (build 13)].I have a sequence with two blokes on a park bench, and would like to switch backgrounds between 10 or so of the outdoor images included, over 5 seconds whilst zooming in on these blokes.When I try to do this "live" while recording it only accepts the last image selected.Is there a way to do this?

I loaded the "Blank" PSD puppet file from Adobe into an iPad app that supports thge PSD format. I only drew in the existing layers. No layers were deleted or renamed. When I saved the edited PSD file and saved the file over the original Blank.PSD file in the CH project, the character was changed with the new artwork, but it was no longer able to move. What did the PSD file lose by being edited and resaved, even though all the same layers and their names remained? 

I plan on live streaming myself gaming using Character Animator and OBS. I'd like my game to be on my main monitor and OBS on my second monitor. I have a MIDI keyboard set up to CH so I can use triggers when the application is minimized. For CH I'd like just two scenes. One scene with many elements (characters, background, props...) as a hangout intermission scene. The other scene will have just my character scaled down in the bottom right corner as an overlay while I'm gaming. Is it possible to switch scenes with a MIDI hotkey? This would be great because it would be better performance while I game! (One puppet. Less layers) My other option is to only use one scene and use a triggers to hide everything and keyframe/replay my character to the corner for gamemode. I don't know if the performance would change though since it's the same big complex puppet.

I used the "blank" Ai file and replaced things to create my first puppet, and I can't seem to add layers under the "head" or  "body" portion. Essentially I can't make any new layers, or drag them into, the original framework. I'm trying to make more hand positions and I can't place them within "body", it just shows a lock icon. Why is this? I've included an image of the layers I have in case this helps but otherwise it's hard to demonstrate.

I seem to be unable to make a custom puppet at all. It appears there are missing folders. Here is a screenshot of the error that I get immediately when trying to open puppet maker.

The character I have created, their pupils seem to move at different speeds and do their own thing meaning they aren't in sync with each other. All the rigging seems to be correct so I dont understand why this is happening but obviously I could be wrong. I have already added the sound and its all lip synced together. Also, whenever I move the arms they seem to come apart from the body so they leave a gap.. Also, the characters legs dont seem to stick to the ground she flies around a lot haha.https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/4e5f5cdb-f56d-4650-7c3d-5e37061117c4 

Hello! I was using adobe character animator and also using my brand new Oon. camera, 1440p surf, and all was going well. I made my puppets and rigged them, along with testing them out in the character animator program. I minimized the window and opened Chrome, and when I reopened Character animator, I recieved the message, "Waiting For Camera". I have reinstalled the program twice now and restarted my computer several times. Now every time I open the program, it will flash like its trying to work, then I recieve the message again. PLASE HELP! This problem apeared out of the blue, and I dont recall doing anything out of the ordinary.

Hello all, I'm using a Windows 10 machine and am trying to livestream with Character Animator but I can't get any of my Adobe programs to recognize the NDI Tools I have installed. I could have popsted this on the Creative Cloud forums, but since my end goal is to use the NDI tools for livestreaming from Character Animator, I thought this seeme diked the right place. I found people with a similar issue on this forum thread. It suggested uninstalling NDI and then downloading and installing After Effects or Premiere Pro. Then, it suggested redownloading NDI and running the NDI tool for Premiere or AE, which should then make NDI appear in other apps as well. I followed these instructions for AE. When I open the NDI tool for AE, it opens AE, but when I go to Edit>Preferences>Video Preview, I don't see NDI as one of the options (see image below). The other forum also had someone suggest testing if NDI was working using Test Patterns. I opened Test Patterns and it seemed

I've created a puppet holding a drink. Is there a way to rig the arm so that his wrist doesn't rotate with the arm? I'd like him to be able to raise his arm without pouring his drink. In the screenshot below, you can see the cup is rotating as he moves his hand closer to his face. The goal is to keep the opening of the cup facing upward at all times. Any ideas? I'm sure someone has probably already solved a similar issue, but my search didn't yield anything useful.

I have many puppets and illustrations in my scene I'm making. Its pretty much all one illustrator file. Is it better to rearrange my scene in the illustrator file, the character animator rig window or just use transform behaviors on everything in record space? Right now everything is just centered on top of eachother in my illustrator file and I move it later in character animator.

I am having an issue where I can't seem to find where to change my install path to a secondary drive as my primary is filling up and I would prefer to keep all my adobe apps on the same device.   Can anyone point me to where I can do this?thanks

Hallo, ich versuche eine schwarze Figur mit einem schwarzen Blatt zu animieren. Die Bewegung usw. habe ich hinbekommen. Wenn ich allerdings mit dem Media Encoder exportieren will, erhalte ich einen Film mit schwarzem Hintergrund. Warum ist es nicht Tranparent? Wie löse ich das Problem?

Hi, What does Mode:Position Based mean? Thanks

Sometimes it seems like the program has a hard time computing the head/body turns. Even though they are in place it doesnt always register on playback and also when exporting. On my current project the head and body turn to the right but when i export only the head is turned and the body stays frontal. any fixes for this? 

Can animator be purchased as a stand alone app?  I don't need all the extra stuff that comes with the adobe package. Thanks

I'm quite new to Character Animator and created my first character with full body tracking, body turning and IK Limbs. Over all it works quite well, but I'm gettings some weird stretching issues and the head is coming loose, even with Head Position Strength at 0%. Hope you guys can help me to resolve those issues. If someone wants to have a look at the project I'd be glad to share it. 

Hi,I am just learning Chartacter Animator and Animate. I picked out a character in Character Animator and I want to make a scene of him walking and jumping. Can I do this in Character Animator? Do I have to import the character into Animate to do this? Is there a tutorial somehere that I can watch to learn hoe to do this? Thanks

Dear @k_oshiro (or anyone else!), since you have solved some of the harder problems here, do you have a solution for this one? There is a problem with long hair that should go behind the body when the head is independent and in front of the body. That is, you want a structure such as: +Character. +Head. Body. Long Hair Behind Head and Body The problem is because the head is independent, the "Long Hair Behind Head and Body" cannot attach to it, so the hair does not follow the head as it moves. If you put the hair inside the head, then the hair is shown in front of the body. The best solution I have seen is to not make the head independent. Then the hair can attach to the even though it is behind the body (because the body and head are a part of the same mesh). Do you have a solution for making the head independent with hair behind the body?

Hi Dave.  I really appreciate you taking a look.   It's been 2 days, and I feel I just made everything worse this morning by adding a blink.   This should be a simple character for me, I've used your previous projects as a guide in the past, and stole your eyes and mouth before, but with a fresh character I rigged, it's a mess.   All I really need with him are eyes to work and his jaw to just pivot when I speak.   No arms. No vowells.  No real body movements.  And I feel defeated.   I had close to what I needed yesterday with the mouth. I watched the rigging of eyes video and so many others.  I know my issue is using the crown and order.  But now I've tried so many variations it looks ridiculous.    Heres a link to the Ch files and data.  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WYxpMZYlthtptFaK9NoqzYwoVvI-mwWZ?usp=sharing I appreciate anyone who can help.     

HiI am trying to export only  a portion of the timeline in the Record workspace.   I don't see a way to do that -- other than to export it via Adobe Media encoder and select the range there.....However am I missing something and there is a way?  I only want to export (tif sequence) the middle section of my recording.Thanks!Rowby

I haven't used CA in about 8 months or so. Right now I am having a problem putting a puppet from Photoshop in Chracter Animator. All I've been able to do is bring a backgound into CA. Every time I try to put a puppet into the Project panel only the folder holding the puppet goes in and then I cna't open the folder. What gives? 

I've read all that I can find in a search of Character Animator Help about the Layer Mesh and I really still don't get much of a sense about what its for and how I can best use it. The search linked to five different pages, but all of them seem to be written as if I already have a fundamental understanding of Ca's meshes and I am left with more questions than I started with.A video tutorial or even a page dedicated to Mesh (that sounds funny) would be helpful.Thanks,Martin