Character Animator

When I launch Premiere Pro or After Effects project files that contain Character Animator Scenes that were dynamically linked, Premiere Pro and After Effects cannot find the Character Animator Scenes. This was working yesterday but for some reason I cannot open the projects anymore. Does anyone know if there is a best practice to deal with this issue like deleting a corrupted file or something? I am running the latest version of Character Animator on a PC with a 5900x and rtx3070 with 64gb ram.

Similar to how you you can turn on the visibility of your dragger handles, there are times when I'd find it helpful if my sticks showed up green on the stage so I could troubleshoot their placement. When the legs or arms are warping in ways I don't like, the solution is often to trial-and-error move those sticks around and find the perfect sweet spot. I think I might be able to pinpoint what part of the stick is influencing the mesh in an ugly way if I could see the sticks while the puppet's moving.

When i create a trigger and replay it hand are going like this. This is happening when i change the hand position before i triggerHow to fix this 

A lovely 3 minute video that deserves a look. In a nice retro style itself https://vimeo.com/93206523   The 12 basic principles of animation were developed by the 'old men' of Walt Disney Studios, amongst them Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, during the 1930s. Of course they weren't old men at the time, but young men who were at the forefront of exciting discoveries that were contributing to the development of a new art form. These principles came as a result of reflection about their practice and through Disney's desire to use animation to express character and personality.  

I think I have everything tagged correclty:+Left Eye   +Left Pupil   Left Eyeball But the pupils do not respond/move at all when I try to record movements using the Mouse & Touch input.Any ideas?

Hi,Does anyone know if there's an effect I can use to make bright beaming lights like this? Thanks!

So I noticed two problems I have been having with the auto blink behavior if anyone can help me out. 1st, no matter what setting I use for Blinks per Minute, Blink Duration, and Randomness, the puppet will sometimes double blink instead of blinking once. It makes the animation look like there's a mistake. Has anyone else encountered this issue and solved it? 2nd, when I use the Auto Blink behavior, the puppet's eyes will remain closed until it starts talking or moving. So like if I have the puppet just standing there for 5 seconds before it does anything both eyes will remain shut for the 5 seconds until it does something. I know it's the Auto Blink behavior causing this because when I turn it off its eyes will open in the beginning. Is there a solution to this? Thanks.

Who in their right mind would willingly use Adobe Character Animator, an app about as user-friendly as a colonoscope constructed of used heroin needles and rusty razor blades? No character you design will ever work, and if you say it does, you're lying.

I've had a libgit2 error - object not found - no match for id...Error (4.2x34)Windows 10.Apparently not in a synced folder. It was a project that was at the very beginning and, in this way, I will redo all the actions. However, as a precaution, this redo would be very costly if the project was already well advanced. So, I would like to know, please, what software is used to be able to open the Character Animator database so that in the future, if the error occurs again, I can try to solve it myself. Thank you in advance.

Someone code a virus that uninstalls Character Animator from any device it infects. You'd be doing the world a favor.

 I have the puppet walking back and forth in a room talking and then I want it to stand still and talk a little more before walking again. I am using Position-based Mode, and I see that if I have the puppet standing still between two keyframes of the same position it will start spazzing out after a few seconds. The puppet switches fast between Left Profile, Right Profile and Stand when I want it to basically stand still. At first I thought this was some kind of issue with my puppet but then I am noticing the same problem with the Okay Samurai 'Walker' puppet. Is there anyway to address this issue so I can have the puppet stand still and talk between walking around?      

Hello I have a problem with my character. my character has a long hair in front of her body, so the hair should be covers the top part of arm, but I want to make the part from elbow to wrist is in front of the hair .. If I put the arm inside the body folder, It is behind the hair.. but If I put the arm in front of the hair, the top of arm is in front of the hair. If I split the layer, top arm behind the body, and bottom arm in front of the hair, it won't draggable together..  please help

We have released Character Animator version 4.2 !! It is available for download from Creative Cloud desktop application.   Check out the new features added here: New features Character Animator v 4.2     

 I keep getting this error code every time I try to save changes over in Character animator. I tried opening up the puppet in new file but still get this.Hope someone can help, thanks.

I have created a charactor in a workshop and would like to run a hand held device screen to show the flow of the software on the image of the hand held device. In most software tools you can embed a video within the screen. I cant seem to imort a video asset into CA. Has anyone suceeded in getting a video file to run with CA.?

I can't seem to get the Limb IK to identify the arms. I used to have no problem with Arm IK but after almost a year away from Character Animator, I've come back to the new Limb IK and thought I'd give it a go. I watched the Limb IK tutorial as I'm a bit rusty since my time off and it seems to be the same initial process as with Arm IK before - I've tagged the shoulders/elbows/wrists and the handles show them all as being linked correctly (they all have a 1 tag, no duplicates or zeros). The arms respond fine and can be dragged around but I know the Limb IK isn't kicking in as I can stretch the arms for miles and the elbows do whatever they want to (whereas in the tutorial, it all automatically works after the tagging and adding the Limb IK behaviour). The Limb IK feature is on the top character but I've tried adding it to the body and even the arms separately to see if it would make a difference and nothing works. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance. 🙂  &nbsp

I am unsure if this is a common error or not but I can't seem to get this broadcast image off of my chaacter.I have used this character before and today when I logged in this is what I got.I have uninstalled/installed multiple versions,re-imported the psd file. Nothing seems to work.Please help any suggestion is appreciated.Thanks in advance

Hello! I am trying to make changes on my puppet and when I reopen the psd file, I noticed that some layers were marked green in the Photoshop. Can anyone tell me why this happened?  What's the difference between the ones that are green and those that are not?   When checking with the Adobe puppets (demo), I noticed that none of them had green layers. I am wondering if I did something wrong?  Thank you in advance for your help! 

Hey guys... I have a client who wanted this animation an hour ago and I've been completely done with it except for one problem for nearly 5 hours...  I'm so very frustrated that I think I'm missing something obvious. I have my characters rigged and ready to go, but when I pin them, they still float all over the place. One character is sitting at a table, the table layer is in the Character layer, seperate from the head layer. I just need her head to move, but when I turn my head the table, her body, EVERYTHING moves.  Like all over the scene... it's clearly tied to my body movements... but it just makes it look like It took me nearly an hour to learn that the staple tool doesn't exist anymore... I had another character whose head kept coming off... I've settled him down, at least his head is attached (I had to figure out how the layer thing works... I understood staples instinctually, but the layer thing is really counter intuitive, so I just copied "Rin" and it wor

When using the live Face video feed to move my characters head, I keep accidentally triggering the "Surpise" mouth. How do I later edit out / delete that suprise mouth from the tiemframe? I want to do it manually as the rest of the live face perfomrance and movements are fine. Thanks!

Hey community. I have a question regarding a non-standard-character. How would you do a lamp character like scribbled below? Basically it is a 3 part IK chain with the head attached to the end.Is this possible in CA? Thank you all and kind regards. Sascha 

hey dave and the community i have a issue with my costumized blank puppet costumizing looks went oke but for some reason my arms looking like they been dislocated to the inside of the chest while performing a walking animation. also the legs seem to be not functioning properly its confusing cause ive not changed anything in the template layers which should by default work fine but at this point it doesnt i would like to get some help on it   ill leave some proof  of it down below 

Hello, I have always code error about temp.noindex or workspaces when i want use Charater animator, what can I do ? (I have a Surface Pro 7) I already try the cleaner tool and saving files on local drive but it keeps happening. Thanks for your help.

Is there a way to apply some sort of "smoothing" to the Cycle Layers behavior? I have a sequence where my characters arms are moving while he dances but the it looks a little stop-motion-ish. I was wondering what the best way to make the cycle layers look smoother as his arms move?Thanks!