Character Animator

My puppet was working as I wanted. Then I got this error: Error:loadPuppet: expects non writable handles as leaves;but found one with children.  I can't figure out what I did to make this come up.  Now it won't load my puppet from PhotoShop into Character Animator.  I did change the order of my eye parts in Photoshop but that shouldn't have caused this....atleast I think not.  Any help would be great. Thanks! 

Just updated from Ch 2020 which was working fine.    The spalsh screen freezes on Initializing (Loading TransmitFullScreen.prm)Help!

Hey, my elbows for my character's elbows are deforming when I bend them. I have tried expanding the mesh, changing the mesh type to "Legacy", and moving the elbow's position lower as to not interact with my character's sleeve. Can anyone assist in helping me fix this problem? Below are some screenshots. 

It's a greyscale 2D drawing (.JPG) of my bipedal wolf character.  I'd like it converted into a 3D model version.  I've seen software that supposedly can do this.  What software can do this and/or how much would it cost to have this done, if done by someone who already has the tools? My apologies if this is totally the wrong place for this...

I want to move the arms together but I do not know how. I saw someone do it in a video but they didn't explain how it was done and I looked for other videos too but there was no explanation, I just want the two arms to move up and down at the same time. Thank you!

I have an animation of a teddy bear who I want to hold and manipulate some colored balls in a simple way. I have tried to follow exactly the instructions here: https://youtu.be/ivt3zQ0zni0 I've tried to get the green ball and the arm to operate essentially exactly identically to the coffee mug in the example, but regardless of what I do the magnets just don't seem to do anything at all. I'm attaching some screen shots of my rigging set up. Any help spotting what I've done wrong would be very appreciated.   

I downloaded the Adobe template containing just the blank layer structure to use in Illustrator for creating puppets.1. There were not angry or upset face options in the template that I downloaded. I can create new layers for this, though how do I get Character Animator to recognize them? How do you name them, etc.?Thanks.

Can someone guide me?I would like to add more features. I have creating many different expression in my eyes and I am not sure how to use them.Will these features automatically show up via Camera Record? My expression are listed below in screen shot. 

Hi, I'm almost done with a video but the picture of the web address won't show up towards the end.  if someone could please help, that would be great.  Thanks!  

So yesterday I had no problem whatsoever opening Character Animantor. Today here am I sitting here trying to open Character Animator and I get this message, "Can't write to font cache directory". I clicked OK and nothing else happens. For reference I use Windows 10 as my OS. How can I fix this?

i need to make a couple of moments of a puppet expressing a couple of things in a transparent background.This is so I can send out the video to my video editing software and I can add a couple of different things to show as background.

Hi Commmunity, I have some problems with the timeline.I am done with my project but there is a problem when exporting,it just export the first few seconds and the rest is a black-screen.I guess the problem is from adobe ch (frorm my project).I hope you help me because i need it for my school project asap.Here is a photo:

Hello! I'm pretty new at rigging for Adobe Character Animator and I got a problem with eye blinking. Here is a structure of eye:  Also I used Behavior "Cycle Layers" for eye blinking. This is how I set up it:  Everytime I try to make eye blink it looks like this:  As you can see the blink makes white part of eye and pupil disappear somewhy. I tried to search how to fix it, but didn't find anything. Is there a way to fix it?

Ok so I'm remaking a puppet in ACA. The original puppet I used had the ability to use magic. in this I took a png of a magic aura and gave it a wave warp effect. Now I cannot use this effect in character animator. Should I just use it in after effects or is there a way I can simulate it?one idea I had was to make a looping gif with a trasparent bg, import the frames in photoshop and then use a cycle layers behavior. what do you think?

i have aproblem which is the characters head and eyes are shaking , and i dont know how to resolve it , can you help me please !EX : Scene SESO - YouTube

Hi community,   Today, we're releasing Character Animator 4.0 which is available for download from the Creative Cloud desktop application.   What's New in Character Animator 4.0?   New example puppet: "Hopscotch the Frog" is a new example puppet in the Home screen with posable limbs. Drag near his neck to make him squat. Try out the different triggers or make him hop away.     New robust project file format: This release introduces an updated project file format that is more resilient to power loss and file-syncing conflicts. Your newly created or Saved-As projects will now be saved in a faster and more compact format.   NOTE: All changes made to projects in version 4.0 are incompatible with older versions of Character Animator.   How do I update Character Animator? Open the Creative Cloud desktop application and click the Updates tab on the top-left. Find Character Animator in the list and click Update.     What should I do if I don't see

Everytime I've tried to reopen a project I get this error (4.0x45). I click ok, and it reappears again. Eventually the project will somehow show up but when I save and close the window it'll do this. I have everything backed up on Dropbox and a Lacie hard drive. Any suggestions how to fix this? 

Our team is working hard on a version of Character Animator that runs natively on Mac systems with Apple silicon (M1). If you are interested in evaluating this work in progress, download Character Animator (Beta) from the Beta apps section of the Creative Cloud desktop app.   For more information, see the following Beta forum thread:https://community.adobe.com/t5/character-animator-beta/discuss-character-animator-on-apple-silicon/td-p/11942592

I completed all these animation successfully then when I play them in QT or FCP the sound is cut off, mis aligned or gone completely? There should be NO REASON to cut off my first words since I have learned the 3 beeps only signafy to me to count 3 more seconds longer since there is such a delay in the acutal recording. I feel sometimes this works great, and sometimes not so much. I still would like a vidoe on the interface since I have lost some of the visible editin windows on my application workspace and still can not find them. 

How do you change the size of a stage in Ch?  I don't want the videos to be so large and I can't find a tutorial for it. 

I'm having some rigging issues trying to get the back layer of hair to move with the head. Also, I can't seem to get eye gaze to work unless I add it individually to the eye.  Adding my puppet file for reference. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wuPUVFhx7uWLnGr-lgVi2molCU8L3OOr/view?usp=sharing

Hello,when I want to save my project, I go to "File", "Save Project As" and then I create a new folder on my server. But when I click on "Save", a message comes up that I should save the file on my local machine.Why actually?

I am perplexed.  I posed my character's arms/hands in character animator and it's exactly what I want.  But when I dynamic link to AE or Premiere the hands are "tweaked" out.  Same thing if I export from ChAn to media encoder.  Everything is fine except for the hands.  They are bent in an awkward position.  Have reriggerd the arms, deleted from AE and Premiere and reimported, but the hands continue to be bent awkwardly.  

I have no idea what could be causing this, but when I use a blue screen or green screen background and my puppet blinks, the eyelids become the background color. It's unique to this puppet, but I don't see any differences between this one's eyelids and the others.Thanks for the help. 

I can't make a new project in Character Animator Version 4.0.  I get the message "Project cannot be saved inside another project." I also get this message when I try to create a new project from the home page. I contacted Adobe support and ended up with a work-around by copying a current project folder and renaming it. Problem is, I don't want to continue duplicating files that are not part of my project. Any help...or may I be so bold to ask...that a wonderful video tutorial on this would be AWESOME. Thanks in advance for whatever you decide to do. Here is a screenshot.