Character Animator

The timeline I have is about 110 frames too long how can I get rid of them?

I've been using Graphic Mama for some art and rigging work needed for a marine life educational series I'm producing. They have been very good to work with, but I was wondering if there are other quality Ch work for hire consultants out there.  

I am a app developer. I am trying to make promo video for my app. Is it possible to use animated character inside after effects?  

Hi, in rig mode I switch the stretchiness from 10 to33, but when I go to scereen mode the right arm is still stretchy.  When I go to rig mode the stretchiness is back to 10.  What's going on?  

I just got adobe and im having this issue where the camera disconnects every time I turn it on. Uninstalling it and reinstalling it as well as restarting the computer has not fixed the problem. My computer hardware Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6600U CPU @ 2.60GHzSystem Type: 64-bitRAM: 16 GBHard-disk Space: 464 GBDisplay: 1920x1080OpenGL Version: 4.6Built-in webcam 

Sword has magnet and collide tag like the coffee from example lesson. Why I cant move it using magets?here is video:https://streamable.com/v3grer 

Hi, can I get some help understanding why the right arm won't move in scene mood?   

Character Animator 4.4 is available for download from the Creative Cloud desktop application. This update includes native support for Apple M1, security updates, bug fixes and multiple feature enhancements.   Native Apple silicon support Character Animator runs natively on Mac systems with Apple silicon, which offers improved performance and greater energy efficiency.   Feature enhancements Speech aware animation: Improved compute (processing) speed. Speech aware animation: Reduced parallax movement that could cause facial features to float unnaturally. The File > Export > Video with Alpha via Adobe Media Encoder menu option now uses the Apple ProRes 444 with alpha preset for QuickTime instead of GoPro CineForm RGB 12-bit with alpha. Several minor bug fixes.   To know more about the new features & the security fixes, please refer to this link.

I used the puppet maker and made a puppet and added legs. Two problems. I get the following message when I add the walk behavior. I can't seem to find a way to fix this. #2 The lashes show up in rig mode but not in record. Again puzzling. Thank you in advance for your help. 

With this character, I just want the head to shake yes, but his whole bodygoes up and down. .  What am I doing wrong?  Also other than using the camera to move the head, is there another way to make the head nod yes?  

I tried to replicate your physics puppet-I wasn’t successful with the ragdoll. Is there a way I should set up my layer so that the individual parts have an origin point like yours ? (green dot) thanks 

it I just updated Character Animater and now none of the tools are working.  For example, if I click the stick or the dragger tool and move with to the picture, the cursor turns into a circle with a diagonal line through it.  

I have a feature request - unless I'm missing something! Using the dangle tag, I accidentaly created super gross oily hair strands that hang in front of my character's face and looks AMAZING (I only wanted them to bounce on top of his head slightly). HOWEVER I am rendering a series of shots to comp into live action footage in Ae - my frame count is precise to match performances in the live action footage - but the physics in my Ch shots go crazy and then settle way too late, so I'm having to add 5 seconds of frames to my Ch shots to give time for the physics to look right. Is there a way to pre-roll the physics in my scene other that adding frames to the beginning?

Hi, I am very new to character animate. I wanted to know how to zoom in or just select a part of the puppet to record. I am wanting to just record the face of my puppet close up while he is talking. I tried playing around with "transform" increasing "x" and "y" values. Am I on the right track? Is there a better way?

I have 8 1/2 seconds filled on my current production. The timeline is 15 1/2 seconds long. How do I get rid of the excess time?

Hi guys, I have a puppt in Adobe illustrator and I am trying to use it as a vector in CH, but when I click render as vector in CH, the symbols disappear. Is there a way to get CH to take the symbol information and just use it as a vector without having to break apart the symbol?

Aloha! I am working on a project and our puppet is using the head turner feature.  Right now we have these head angles work: Right profileRight quarterUpwardFrontalDownwardLeft quarterLeft profile.   I was wondering if it is possible to also add a Right profile upward/downward & Left profile upward/downward  Any help would be great thank you!

We just got through a huge project where we have been using After Effects and Character Animator to produce several animations involving multiple scenes from Character Animator in each one. We haven't been running into any issues up until now.After I've opened After Effects and rendered out the animation using Adobe Media Encoder I've encountered a problem when I've shut both programs down. One of the background processes for Character Animator remains running and will not shut down. I've tried ending the task but nothing happens. I've gone to the process itself and tried the same but I'm told access denied. If I try to open either Character Animator or the file we've been working on in After Effects, both programs stall out and I have to force quit them. Once that's done the Character Animator process remains in the background.I've even tried a restart of the computer—and this is where things get weird—but it won't. My computer won't restart. I have to do a hard boot to reset everythi

Hi,I'm creating a 30 ish minute video, about 1/2 of which will have a puppet narrating a script. The video will eventually be disseminated likely through youtube or some similar easy access source. The puppet is created in photoshop, I'll animate through CH, add background details through Animate, and stitch things together at the end in Premier pro. Following the how to create your first cartoon tutorial, I created different scale versions of my puppet. However, as noted in the video, my puppet's resolution wasn't high enough and at final export it looked too pixelated. This was only a 40 second test project to work out the kinks so I'm starting from scratch and want to do a better job deciding file size/resolution.  I am wondering if you have a suggestion of settings given my project intention (30 minute total, 15 minutes of puppet in small chunks, interest in having puppet scaled in and out) for each of the different programs to balance resolution quality with file size? Specif

Hi,Does anyone know how to animate a character riding a bicylce in Character Animator? I've tried to find an online tutorial but can't seem to find anything for Ch Animator. Thanks!

I am new and building a simple puppet.  I apparently moved my origin tag and cannot find it and believe this may be the reason for the error when trying to test it in scene.Can anybody be of assistance in how I can find the origin tag(handle)?  Also how can I find just my postings within this forum?

I'm trying to import a character into CA, and it keeps spitting up this error message I followed the suggestion in this post and put both the project file and the puppet on my local computer, but that hasn't fixed the issue.  Any idea what else it could be?

Hello, I have the following problem. My puppet's right eye is displayed correctly in the customize window. Whichever I switch to the recording window, the right eye is suddenly no longer displayed. Also the levels for the blinking of the right eye. Everything works correctly with the left one. All settings in the Photoshop file are correct. All settings for the right eye are also the same as for the left eye. Why is the left eye not displayed when recording? I'm desperate.

Hi all! Starting a couple weeks ago, when I open a project, playback won't work. I'll hit the space bar or the play button and everything will just sit there. I can record and, afterwards, scroll through the scene to see that things are being recorded, but I can't actually play anything back. It's not just with my projects. None of the tutorials work either.I saw other people have had this same issue but can't find any solution. I'm desperate because I have a deadline coming up FAST. Does anyone know what's going on?

Hey, everyone, I was going to join this competition on animating but was stumbled because it said that I would have to provide them with proof of permission on third party material and I was going to use adobe puppets, could somebody please provide me with that proof. Thank you, sincerely.