Character Animator

First, happy Thanksgiving. I'm sitting around waiting on the turkey and trying to make my puppet walk. I've successfully done it before, but, having installed the latest Ch update (2019, v2), I decided to start over following Okay Samurai's new walking tutorial. I successfully did this the other day on a less complicated puppet. Today though, I re-imported my much more elaborate puppet from Ps, added the walking behavior to the top level, applied and mapped handles to the limbs and went to record. AND MY BODY DISAPPEARED!!! It's really terrifying. My head bobs up and down as if walking, but there's no body. If I remove the walk property, my body returns, but, of course, he just stands there.I'll happily provide whatever information or photos anyone would like. I am certain this is something simple and basic.Martin

Hi everyone,Just starting out with the program and after building my first character and using it in a video on YouTube I have some questions - these will be basic and if they have been asked before then please do send me to the relevant post. On the blank puppet, there is a green dotted line from the eyebrow tag and other facial features to the base of the head (image attached) - I don't seem to have this - what is it and how do I get it? I'm trying to learn illustrator - is it worth continuing to learn this or just stay with photoshop? What size should I make my puppets - as in pixels? And finally - any suggestions for keeping calm during the rigging process 🤣🤣 Thanks inwils 

I think it does (just a little) but according to some people it doesn'tI want to know what's the truth 

Is there a walk cycle blank puppet or a puppet like Kaufman and Eliza that uses illustrator files. I like the idea of being able to zoom in with vector files. 

Where is Lotty Roo?

I've been trying to troubleshoot this the past few days and I can't seem to get it working. I go and download the NDI tools for windows. Made sure both OBS and character animater where closed while installing. The stream icon thing in character animator was blue, meaning everything should have installed correctly. So I go into edit preference to chnage my live output. I only see NDI output and not newtek NDI output like all other walkthroughs show. I didn't think much of it at the time. I open studio monitor and realize that it will only show what my character is doing if I have character animator as my active screen, and even then it wont capture all of it. I  go into OBS and the option to captor the NDI output isn't there. I have:Restarted my computer.Redownloaded the NDI files after fully deleteing them off my computerRedownloaded OBS I've looked through the forms and google and I can't seem to find a fix for this.

Hi,I have setup up facial expressions to triggers, and also auto-blinking.Problem: Left eye correctly doesn´t blink when triggers are activated, but the right one blinks over the triggered swap sets.The only difference I see in the Layer properties is that the left (correct) Lid is Attached to "Left eye", but the right Lid is Attached to "<Right eye>" - there´s these extra <> signs. What can I do to fix this?

I am trying to create a mask and this is the closest I have been able to make it work. I tried nesting the masking group, but that just made my item disappear completely.   How would you create a proper sub-layer to make the mask work?  What I have now is a complete different setup than a sublayer because that is the way I have made it work in other cases.  The problem I have is that the mask is changing the color of the item and not maching the original color.  Is there a way I can fix it?  Here is a video of the setup I have. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9P7fCLzo3s    

I am using numerous layer picker behaviors so that a single puppet can be changed to look like a variety of characters.  I'm using nested subgroups, adding them to controls, and grouping similar sets.I have a Body Style Group for my two body styles heavy and average.  Inside is a Heavy Color group with layers of that heavy body in different colors.  Same for average.  I also have a Head Style group (thin head and flat head) with nested subgroups containing each of the skin colors (white, brown, red).I created the Head Group first, added the group and subgroups to Controls.  I grouped the controls for skin color.  Everything is working fine at this point.I did the same for body style and color.  I followed the same procedure.  Even redid it after it didn't work.  The problem is, when I change the body color slider, it changes the head skin color too.  No logical reason why it should do this.I have unique names for all of my behaviors.&nb

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I need to maks an item to make is disappear up to a certain point, but instead the masking item is disappearing the instant I apply a mask to it.  See video below.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgJn0QI5GWA 

Hi, I made a swapset for a hand move but when I trigger it, even though the move happens, the default position remains aswell... instead of vanishing... 

Head floats, not attached to body. The head and body groups have no crown turned on. Head has subgroup of 5 different head turns.

I'm a first timer and I need help.I created a puppet in photoshop and imported it into Character Animator.The head attributes all work fine, the eyes, eyelids, brows all are working great.  See attached video test.For reasons unknown to me, the head will not attach to the body. I have used the staple tool, but it still will not attach.I'm guessing it's something simple, but I just don't get it. It's possible that I have done something wrong in the original photoshop file.Could someone look at my .psd file if I send it to see if I have created the layers properly?I have a client waiting to see this and I'm getting frustrated.Help please!!!

Hello everyone, I'm having problem on setting up my character to walk right , i have looked at many videos and still cant seem to fix my problem. as you can see his arm is not right, i have try stick tool and nothing.  please help

I want to place a clipping mask on a red box that I am going to animate as moving fluid. The next drawing right below the mask is an "empty container". I want the red box to move up and down the white cube as is it is filling the container.  Check video below.  How can I do this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Rc_Qnpwr4   

Are there any links in which I can watch how all of the behaviors work on Character animator? 

I've looked at the rigging and of course as a newbie im puzzled. It shows the range of motion for the eye pupil because it thinks the eyebrows I stuck on the eyeballs are part of the eyeballs. Which is logical. However. When I look at the rigging I see an outline for the range of motion for the pupil (based on the eyelashes)  and it's too big. But I don't see any way to modify it. I hate to delete the eyelashes, and I'm too new to figure out how to give them their own layer....

I've spent two days modifying a puppet. I'm a newbie! and I've even rendered out a short movie.I've exported the puppet (I think) though I wasn't sure where to export it to.How do I find that puppet to reuse it in another project?I can find it in the media folders as a psd but it's dimmed and I can't access it.I've really searched the help files and ccan't find an aswer. I could plow through a ton of tutorials and maybe find an answer but I just want to reuse the same puppet in a new project.

Hello. I am wondering if someone can help me with something. This may be very easy to do and I am assuming it is done with key frames but I am new to CA and just getting into key framing and can't figure it out. What I have is this. A monkey character which I want to move very fast around the screen. While I may want to switch to the juming action you showed in your key framing tutorial now that I have seen that, I would still like to figure this one out. I created a puppet which disappears into a cloud of smoke when I hit the "s" key. I have it latching so he does not re-appear till I hit the key again. That all seems to work pretty well. What I can figure out is how to hit the "s" key so he disappears from point A and then have him re-appear at the Point B of my choosing when I hit the "s" key again. Is this possibe? Please help.Thanks,Dave

How do i extend the default time line (5 mins) of the puppet? Please provide step by step, as i cannot find any link, button or slider to make this happen.Thank you.

So I have 3 knobs on my keyboard which by default is to control the lighting of my mechanical gaming keyboard. I am just wondering if I can assign those knobs as a controller for, say, rotation in the transform behavior. Is it possible? Or it's just for midi?Thanks!

Hello, I am in need of some help with an issue I am having in Character Animator. I have added three puppets to my stage. All of them are created in Illustrator. Two of them are scaling fine. I can make them very small if I want to without a problem. The third however seems to get completely disorted and I dont know why. It is like he is getting sucked into one point on the chacater the smaller I make him. Please help. 

Sometimes I have brought in an example puppet into a project to see how it works then deleted the puppet when done.  But I think some of the files for that puppet remain in my project folder.  Is there a listing someplace of the files in a project and what they are used for?I would like to see if I can figure out what unused files can be deleted.