Character Animator

Is there any way to navigate character Animator's scene timeline in a similar fashion to premiere pro(PP) or after effects(AE)?Such as keyboard shortcuts for frame by frame scrubbing or entering a frame number/timecode? Currently, I am working on a scene(AC) that is used in a few comps(AE) which are then arranged in premiere sequence. I have few things in animator that need match the exact frame timing.  

I'd like to animate an insect with 4 arms and 2 legs. How do I do this?Thanks,Michael

Geez, why am I getting this all of the sudden? Trying to drag Ch project from project panel to project panel in Ae. Done this a hundred times in the  p as t, now it doesn't work. I have that .dll in the location queried.  The procedure entry point ?StdToUTF8String@string@dvacore@@YA?AV?$basic_string@EU?$char_traits@E@std@@U?$SBAAllocator@E@allocator@dvacore@@@std@@PEBD@Z could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2020\Support Files\dvascripting.dll.k.

When I start rigging the head is separating from the body? I also checked the layers groups I think everything is okay.

Hi All,When I use the Camera to activate head movements the eyes open and squint in accordance to my visual clues. I would like to eliminate this behaviour. Darn if I can figure out what I am missing. Help would be appreciated. I have attached the Rigging and Properties information. Be well fellow pupeteers. - Platty    

Tearing my hair out on something I can't find any other users dealing with-- my puppets work perfectly in the app and can mirror to another screen (Adobe Monitor) or other PC with NDI. However.. in the monitor or NDI (happens in both, tested individually), animations tend to hold between input. For instance, an auto blink looks perfect in the application, but on the streamed output, the blink activates, closes the eye but then stays in that status until more input (such as voice or the next auto-blink triggers) at which point it works fine until input stops for a moment. It's crazy seeing it perfect in my timeline/application and not showing the same thing on the other screen/stream. If it's supposed to mirror the application, I can't wrap my mind around how the output doesn't match, even locally to just another monitor.I've attached a screen shot across all monitors (same moment in time) and combined for viewing. Any thoughts/ideas?

I just downloaded creative cloud. I'm not sure what i am doing at all. can someone explain to me why everytime i try to download a character into character animator I get an error message? None of them work. I am always left with a failed to create scene. Heeeeeeellllp! I just want to make a cartoon of my podcast!

Hello,  For some reason draggable stopped working. Any ideas on what it could be?   

I have made a mouth group with a neutral, excited and worried set of visemes but am having no luck switching between the emotions using triggers. I'm sure I just don't know the proper rigging and labelling hierarchy in Character Animator (I've only just started using it.)I'd like to be able to change the emotional tone of the character by swapping between the viseme sets and could really use some help.Thank you.I can provide the psd and character animator files for review if necessary

I cannot for the life of me figure out why my puppets arms and hands are not working. The Draggers won't work, and before then the arms wouldnt stop stretching no matter what i tried. I attached my puppet file, please help. I don't have a clue what's going on.

My Camera is not recognised with the Canon EOS Webcam Utility/Driver.Tested with Cameras70d5D Mark-ivSystem (Windows 10, v1909)

Hello,I'm having an issue while playing back an animation after recording. File is too big to attatch so i have linked the video in my google drive. After I make a recording and want to view and potentially make changes I cannot view it properly unless I export. Also I cannot edit a recording because of the unresponsive playback. I am forced to completely re-do scenes/recordings. I confirmed with the creator of this puppet that it is functioning properly and it's a playback issue. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k1C92u8v8BWEW22mtQ6v716iL5PZxbkX/view?usp=sharing Thanks in advance,Josh

I cannot get CA to recognize audio input from my Audio Technica mic plugged in to my Presonus Studio24c USB audio interface on my MacBookPro.  Other audio input sources are recognized by CA including internal mic and other apps (i.e. Adobe Audition) can record from the mic on the USB interface with no problem.  I have attached a screencap from Preferences>Audio Hardware>Settings. Under Settings, I cannot move the slider for Master under Master Stream, which I assume has something to do with the issue. Any clues on how to get CA to recognize the mic input from the USB audio interface?  

Hi, I have several questions1. After building a puppet in photoshop I created another face structure, turned aside. after rigging it in walk position, all the organs are not connected and move independently/ the face is deformed and split to two parts that don't coordinate, and I see only one hand and one leg (moving)2. I try to rig a puppet on a background photo (or video) but when I press rig, I can see only the puppet so I can"t set its movement on the background.thanks for any help  

Hi,' I can"t manage to import a video nor a background work I created in after effects into CH, so I can insert my puppet and edit. please, help !!

Why does nothing happen when i click my triggers?  

Not sure what to make of this... I had everything working well, opened the puppet to edit the art, and when it saved and reloaded, suddenly the puppet was just frozen in the recording and streaming panels. My camera and microphone are still active and working properly, it's tracking my face and the volume meter is accurate, but the puppet won't move at all. I've broken the rig before and it at least moves the entire puppet with my head, but now it's just a still image. I've restarted Ch (and the whole computer), and seen similar posts where the problem was fixed by changing audio devices or toggling the camera and mic inputs off and on, but nothing has worked for me.

After updating to version 3.4 existing projects now has an issues returning to original setpose. The only way I can get the hand draggers back to their original pose before I can export out and preview, I have to click play/stop about 50 times and it slowly returns to the actual starting point... if I do not return them to the orignal starting point I m getting errors where the timeline plays but gets broken with certain draggers are offset in the wrong placement and pays from that point in time. Also another way to get the Pose back to default is to click also about 50 times on the timeline or click the refresh the scene every time I preview.. very anoying and breaks the workflow ... Hope this gets fixed soon.

Hi! I think that this could help someone. In the first time I used Character Animator, after a minor change (just the color of the nose) in a puppet in Illustrator, the Ch had some problems in reproducing the puppet. I closed the program and couldn't reopen it. I tried a lot of times. Restartet the computer several times, there was an open project that crashed and the program didn't openned anymore. There was the messages, "open a project in more than one computer at the same time could cause..." and the program didn't responded. SOLVED: I was using a Logitech Camera 910. When I removed this hardware, immediately the program runned normally. God bless you.

 Why do my arms move up so quickly? Also is there a way to make the walking more fluent?

So, I have made some clipping masks in illustrator and taken then to Ch without problems(clothing, basically). It gets the clipping group as a single layer, and fine. But I have two arms in wich it is not working. Actually, three, but one got solved just recomposing layers in illustrator. I have tried the same, but it does not work: it gets it as two different layers and therefore the <linked file> in illustrator appears completely, not being the inside of the clipping path. I have tried renaming, reordering...i can´t make it work. Any ideas? Thanks

I am face two error's when I try to launch Adobe Character animator "MFPlat.DLL was not found" and "MF.dll was not fount"

It would be really nice if there are options added to character animator so we can animate puppets laying down and standing up from the laying position.

I have this walk cycle, it's frame by frame.  It's 8 frames I have on cycle layers.  I want to control his mouth/face while he's walking.  How would I do that?  I added a mouth 8 different times onto each frame and tried to let the cycle layers play through but it doesn't work, it stops the cycle and goes back to my idle cycle.  Any info would help.  Thanks.  

Hi, I'm fairly new the character animator and am having issues with imported audio. I have imported an mp3 file but when I click play nothing happens. I've also tried a wav file and an mp3 file that had worked previously but is not working now. I've also tried creating a new project and putting it in that but it's still not working. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!