Character Animator

Is it possible to link triggers to Photoshop tool selections?  I presently don't know Character Animator, but I have a CC account.  I watched a couple videos on triggers and can't figure out can the key triggers work if you have photoshop open?  So if I used 'S' to select the 'Clone Stamp' could I trigger an icon or animation to appear elsewhere on the screen?  What about if I just clicked the stamp tool with my cursor, can that be a trigger too?I'm willing to learn this software if that is achievable, so your answers will could help me save a lot of time.  Thanks in advance!

Please give us a way to tame auto-blink during a take.

It would be great if we could import Autodesk Maya puppets and objects into Adobe Character Animator. There are some great designs 3rd party artists have created for Maya. But currently none of them can be used in Character Animator. Any plans to include such capability?

Hi everyone, new animator here! My issue is with the dragger on the left arm of my character. Everythig else works fine. However, when I move the dragger attached to the left hand of my character, this happens! (see attached photo) thanks in advance!

Hi, I'm working on pixel art characters with a very small size. Does anyone know how to export without Character Animator automatically adding what looks like bilinear interpolation (this ruining the pixel art)? I've tried everything in media encoder to get a clean Prores 4444 but it always adds interpolation. Many Thanks

Ok, while i stream i use autohotkey to trigger animations etc. but it's not enough anymore, i need to use midi to add new ones, the problem is that i want to automatize the midi triggers too, is there any midi software that i can use to trigger animations etc. ?

Hi everyone, I am so new to this and so excited to get stuck into it. I have come across a problem that Im not sure how, or if, it can be done.Im am creating a monster charactr that has many eyes. Can I get all the eyes to work together or is does movement etc only work for 2 eyes. Again, I have only just started this and I have Googled and I can not find anything to help me out. Many thanks  

Greetings Hive Mind, I'm working through Okay Samurai's Limb IK video and downloaded the corrsponding character pack. I'm working with June, the full body yoga puppet, and for some reason I can't move the puppet's arm's even though the wrists's are tagged as draggable. However, I can move the legs. I'm thinking there's some Property or Behavior I need to toggle, but I'm not sure which one, or possibly some other newbish mistake. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be much obliged! I've attached a few screen shots of the rig and record mode views in Character Animator in case that helps.

Hello there! I want to use motion capture and this software to make this specific picture move when I speak. I basically want it to come to life.I tried creating a new style with it but the result was horrendous because I dont think it was the appropriate tool. Should I try to make a puppet from scratch or maybe try to draw pictures with different expressions?I'm a newbie when it comes to animation and motion capture which is why I need help on how to make this picture move. I know I'm asking for a lot since I do not have any knowledge on the matter but I did not really know what to search for.Thanks a ton for reading this,Have a nice day!

How can I use command keys while I'm outside of the program, like playing a game in the background. Or is ther no solution to it? 

I would like to create a starry night sky for my character with a handful of twinkling stars. I am trying to find a way to do this without inserting a lot of layers for each star and rigging it with cycle animation behavior. Ideally, I'd want to just rig the star once and repeat it several times. Is such a thing possible with CH?

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Hi there, is it possible to create first person view that would see puppets hands? I would appreciate more info on how to do this efficiently. Thanks.

Greetings Adobe creative community!I'm new to Character Animator and am working on completing the last video in OK Samurai's beginner's playlist, but I hit a snag. When I try to use Characterizer in Character Animator 2021 on my PC running Windows 10, the face capture process fails when the program asks me to repeat the word "adobe." My Samson Q2U USB microphone works fine when recording or doing lip-sync, but I wondered if background noise from the computer tower itself could be causing interference? Otherwise, I'm not sure what else the problem could be and was hoping someone might have a suggestion or could point me towards an answer.I've attached a screenshot of the error, but please note, I wore a funny mask to preserve my ugly mug's privacy and I am not trying to face capture the mask.Thank you in advance!

Hi, I am working on different scenarios to blend characters with a game using Midi. I covered a simple use case where we can describe how to eyeball the position to rotate a wheelhttps://youtu.be/SngJeAi2bBg But in that case, we have some limitations, so I am working on figuring out how the joint angles from the target position that moves in a circle (pic)  The question to the community. I am working on 1 or 2 arms with the shoulder joint and elbow joint. Are there some characters in use that would need something on top?

Hello!I have a walking character with a standing profile and left and right profile. The character walks perfectly to the left, (except the head is a bit too high). But when walking to the right, the head disappears, completely.  As far as I can see the right profile is tagged the same was as the left profile. Has anyone got any ideas what I'm doing wrong? All the best Elina Tyskling

Is there a way that one layer will not be scaled/transformed by the Scene Camera? In other words, can I make a top-layer in the scene with a static image like speech bubbles or a logo within Character Animator? Of not, this is a feature request (simply don't scale layers that are placed above a Scene Camera layer?)

Hey there! I'm working on a character rig and am having problems with the lip-sync behavior finding the mouth tags. As a result, no matter what I say in the microphone, all she does is smile or stay neutral. She will not speak. I've tried everything I can think of and nothing registers! Help!

We wanted to give you advance notice that the OS requirements for Character Animator will change with the next major release. The updated minimum OS requirements will be:  macOS Catalina v10.15 or later  Windows 10 (64-bit) v1909 or later  Why the change? Adobe applications support the current and previous operating system versions. We typically update the minimum OS requirements with our own major release.

Hi, I'm using the Triggerable Shots swap set for Cameras for the first time and am having some issues. It seems as though when I create a new shot for the swap set (by changing the Position X, Position Y and Zoom values), it has an impact on the swaps I've already created. For example, when I created the 3rd Shot, called "Ollie & Book" and played hte video from the beginning, the "Wide" shot (the first swap I created) had different values. I made sure "Wide" wasn't selected and tried several more times and it still happens. Any ideas? Thank you!  

hello,I've made a character in illustrator with two heads on one body, one male and one female.Now I can't see how to rig that in Chatractor animator. I'd like to have them independent, so that I can record a voice to each head. And of course they should move independently. Does anybody have an idea, if that's possible?Thanks lot!

Hello!Im new to Adobe animator, and I have bumped into a problem. When I have a rigged character and record facial expressions, the whole body wiggles from side to side with my head movements. How do I stop this from happening? All the best Elina

Hello! I have rigged a character with a right and left profile that is supposed to be walking. The character walks when I  have the timeline marker at the beginning of the timeline, and it works fine to control it with the arrow keys. But as soon as I press record and tries to control it, it just completely disappears from the scene and nothing gets recorder. What is going on here? Thankful for your help! 🙂All the best Elina

Hello. I'm an After Effects (AE) specialist and I been using character animator (CH) with great results. I tried Googling and searching forums but I stillhave no idea why CH delivers a Json file along with the PNG and WAV render option. Is there something I can do with it? I'm spit balling here, will it help me integrate characters into webpages in a similar way that PSD exports an HTML? Can I use it for camera data in AE? I have no idea.Thanks.

Been learning Character animator for almost a year. Never had ta problem with saves.Updated to 4,4. Performed with triggers, adjusted lipsync, etc etcSaved a named project version just to be safe. Clicked on a previous named project version to test out the save. Clicked back on the new version and everything was gone. Visemes were gone, changes were gone. Takes were gone. The whole nine yards. Did everything  to try and recover and it was all gone. The new saved version only listed the puppet. That's it. Went back to version 4.2 and added new named project versions. All works well. Just a heads up.