Character Animator

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A few years ago I saw a video of Dave and his son making a puppet using construction paper.I want to know how I can take an illsution I made and take it apart in Photoshop, and using the body layers place in in character animator. Thanks Lee

Can someone ELI5 what the difference between replays and keyframes are??. Are keyframes a type of replay??

One you've created your various different mouthshapes for lip-syncing, is it possible for Character Animator to cross-fade between them, rather than simply switching?

Hi!Maybe I'm just missing something super obvious but I can't seem to solve this issue: I have limb IK turned on and everythign works fine when dragging the foot around via the heel control. However when moving the body down I run into this issue of the foot streching. It happens on both feet but not the arms. See attached images I've followed along the Limb IK okaysamuari tutorial of having the frontal group etc. What's going wrong here?

Hi, I'm trying to make my character have all black skin, but on character animator the skin colors don't seem to be updating. Thanks in advance for your help!

Hi everyone, I recently got involved with Ch, and have been doing a puppet animation for work. It worked fine up until today, I added a few things to the .psd file of the puppet, and tried continuing animation when it showed me the error below: Now I cannot open the file at all, and I haven't used this puppet in any other project as this is my ever first one.I am using the latest version, and have been working in my main disk, no external disk or cloud systems used.  This occured suddenly, and even though I've been searching for the troubleshoot, I haven't got any fitting to my problem. I tried all basic troubleshootings like restarting, undoing changes in .psd file, etc. I attached the error log I found in folder, and in case if anyone want to see the Ch file, I linked WeTransfer containing the working files.  I appreciate any help,Thank you.

hi im trying to record a walk cycle and its almost impossible because if i move the right leg , during recording for the left leg it doesnt move so i have to just guess?any suggestions? thanks a bunch

Hello, I created a file in illustrator with the RBG setting and the preset, Film and Video (3840x2160) so I could get a high quality video when I export it. When I am in CH and I click render as vector, the text on my screen dissapears, Im not sure how to get it to render my text as vector for better quality because when I export throught ME the colors are duller in the final video. I would like the colors to look as crisp as the CH file. I attached a comparison below, I would appreciate any help? Thanks!

Here's my workflow for the lip sync for Youtube.

I have searched and seen some similar questions asked but the solutions don't quite seem to answer my question. A lot of the posts about arms are trying to get them to move together. I am not sure what I did or didn't do but I cannot get the arms to move independently when dragged. I tried removing the Limb IK behavior and the dragger behavior but if I remove the dragger behavior, the arms don't move at all even though I pulled the Chloe puppet into my scene so that I could look at how it was setup and there are no behaviors on either arm and they work independent. I am stumped.I will  attach a link of the puppet so you can see for yourself. I feel like I am getting soo close to getting it just the way I want it!Thanks in advanced! This support forum is awesome! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UHOVJUNA_50mz8JchKeTb9ekCAu3QthL/view?usp=sharing 

Ao importar meu personagem, ele aparece na cena com apenas a cabeça opaca, transparente, mesmo estando a opacidade em 100%. Observei que está 100% em todas as ferramentas, mas mesmo assim meu personagem continua com a cabeça opaca, transparente. Nessa nova versão do Character, isso está acontecendo. Como corrigir?

Quick question regarding dragging arms and hands... With my new character design (with higher level of details, mainly for the hands), every time I drag the arms, the hands take a while to slide and the result is weird. Do you have any tips on how to avoid this?

Hey, has anyone experienced an issue where Character Animator no longer recognizes the puppet file it exported? Noticed an issue when it told me that the character rig I created now says that if the character animator project is located on a server, I should save it locally, but even when I did that, it still didn't work. (The project was located on a TB hard drive.) Then when I tried to download the puppet I exported before, It posted an error saying that the puppet file was unrecognizable. Please advise.

am a new pie 🙂 , have no idea how to make side view from a puppet

Although the program allows me to access all its functions properly, every time I select a layer or behavior it takes a very long time to load.Here is my computer data:macOS Catalina version 10.15.7Processor 3.4 GHz Intel Core i5 quad-core processorMemory 40 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

I am learning CA and am having a difficult time. I am wondering, which side is the right side and which is the left. Is the right side the actual right side of the puppet OR is it the right side that you view on screen? Thanks

Si bien el programa me permite acceder a todas sus funciones correctamente, cada vez que selecciono una capa o comportamiento este tarda muchísimo en cargar. Los datos de mi computadora son los siguientes:macOS Catalina versión 10.15.7Procesador 3,4 GHz Intel Core i5 de cuatro núcleosMemoria 40 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 

I'm having an issue with a rig. Once I switch to the Recording mode, the head (as well as limbs along with it) is offset from the default position to a position that's to the top right of the default position. I am able to "manually" reset the position by dragging the character's head, but I was wondering if there was a legitimate fix for this issue. Would greatly appreciate any and all help! Here's a video of the issue and my manual fix: YouTubeHere are the rigs: Google Drive

Hi team, i already captured all my scenes in FullHD. The characters (all vector) are scaled and walking in them. Now i would like to scale the whole scene up to 4k. I already tried exporting 4k through media encoder, but the Footage is blurred after it. I also checked 400% resolution of all characters and tried to scale the whole scene via live link through after effects. Unfortunately everything without success. Do you have any ideas, without recording everything from scratch?Cheers Sebastian

I have watched a few videos and fixed many of my beginner issues but one thing I have not figured out is why the hands of my puppet will not move with the arms. Actually it appears they are attached correctly but it is almost like there is a pin that I am not seeing that is pinned to the very tip of the finger. The character will stretch the arms but the tip of his finger does not change. I am having a lot of fun with this program but this is kinda getting me. I even used the arm set from the generic model. I would also like the arms to move like arms really would (IK) but that is probably a post for another time if I don't figure it out. I can DM anyone the puppet but I would rather not post it here..... I am not an artist. This is my first shot at creating my own puppet. TIA!

Ich will eine Animation erstellen und dafür eine Audiodatei nutzen. Der Import funktioniert super. Spielt man das Audio jedoch ab, klingt kaputt (als ob die Datei kaputt ist) und die Geschwindigkeit stimmt nicht mit dem Original überein. Ich habe es inzwischen auch mit sehr kurzen Clips (20-30 sek) und mit möglichst kleinen Dateien ausprobiert, weil ich dachte, dass mein Rechner (?) oder das Programm Probleme mit großen Dateien hat. Ich habe es auch mit einer wav Datei statt mp3 ausprobiert. Egal, was ich tue, es ändert nichts. Die Systemvoraussetzungen scheinen aber auszureichen, um mit Character Animator zu arbeiten:Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-6006U CPU @ 2.00GHz 2.00 GHz (im Gerätemanager werden mir vier angezeigt), 8GB RAM, 64-Bit-Betriebssystem, x64-basierter Prozessor, Windows 10.Ich hänge einen Ausschnitt an, wie sich das Original-Audio anhört und wie es vom Character Animator nach dem Import anhört. Bin über jede Hilfe dankbar. 

I can't find out what this error code means - anybody know? When trying to load a photoshop file (psd) I continually get this error 'The Photoshop file operation failed. Reason: (-1)', it is driving me nuts, anyone help?? thanks in advance.

When I am trying to create a replay, I record the motion, set my blends and then select all of my layers but when I right click to save the replay it only grabs my dragger handles and ignores the keyframes and triggers or vice versa. It won't grab everything to save the entire replay. Please help!