Character Animator

Hello everyone, I have just about finished creating 5 scenes about 5 minutes long each in character animator. I have six characters walking and talking, backgrounds, music, and sound effects. Now its time to put all the scenes together in after effects to create my first episode. This has been a lot of work. I use import and dynamic link. I bring in everything that shows and thats when I have problems. I skip every two frames and a quarter like Ok Samurai suggest and it will barely play. I know that it has to render but that will take forever and will that happen evertime I make a change. Whats the best way to do this? I feel like there has to be a better way to keep moving. somebody help!! 

Hello, Im new to character animator and i wanted to know how can i import a picture from the internet to character animator so i can edited an use it or if theres is a way i would really like some help on this. thank you for your time

All my puppets are broken. Anyone know why? I have 16 Gb ram and 4 Gb graphic cards. There mustn't be memory issue. Thanks for your help. 

When recording the face Track Behaviour, the Face moves the body and the body moves the arms at the shoulder but then they move up like a action figure. is there a way for them to stay fixed at the wrists and let the elbows and shoulders move. So it seems there is weight to the arms? In my case, the forearms should be resting on the arm of a chair, But when I record the arms move up with the body,

Hello! I am a bit stuck. I watched tutorials and created a puppet of myself, all of my visemes look correct but when I test it the puppets mouth just opens and closes without any 'pronunciation' or using visemes. I am not sure if it is lagging? It works effectively when I smile, but when I talk, my mouth just opens and closes and not even close to syncing. I am new to this program and looking for advice. The other tutorials I have used, I have not had any problems with and I did watch https://helpx.adobe.com/adobe-character-animator/using/characterizer.html but could not find a fix. Any help greatly appreciated! thanks! Grace

Olá pessoal, sou novo no uso do character animator, e gostaria de saber se algum pode me ajudar com a seguinte questão:No meu projeto existe o audio gravado diretamente do microfone no computador para o uso da sincronização labial do personagem, e um audio de música como background, a pergunta é como controlar o volume da música, gostaria de baixar o mesmo, deixando em destaque o som da voz do personagem, mas não consigo encontrar os parâmetro de nível de volume, nem para o personagem, nem para a musica, agreadeço se algume puder me ajudar, forte abraço a todos da comunidade.

Hi, I'm just learning character animator and I can't find a solution to the issue of making my layers work in unison in the timeline with the walk behavior. When I hightlight the 3 layers (foreground, character, background) only one red "armed" icon displays. Each layer will work with the directional arrows on their own, but not together.  I'm sure it's some easy solution that is right in front of me, but as I said, brand new at this.  Thank you. 

I am working on adobe character animationI can not record my audiowhen I talk I do not see a green audio mixer show upAlso, my webcam and my microphone icon is blueI have Windows 10

Hi All, Hope you can help, as I'm a new starter in the world of animation and just wanted help on 3 things please. 1. I have created a puppet in Character Animator (photoshop), whereby I have imported an animated desk onto the scene aswell. The problem is I cannot get the desk to go infront of the puppet, as I want the sence to look like the puppet is sitting down behind the desk.  2. How do I get my puppet to point at the screen please?  3. How do I get my puppet to move both arms/hands at the same time please?  Thank you

Occasionally when exporting 20 sequences in a row via Media Encoding (control-M on windows, H.264, match input bitrate) it starts failing to encode after successfully doing 10 or so of them. I get a bleating sheep/goat, and yellow triangle icon saying the encoding failed, and an error like the following at the end of the log. - Source File: C:\Adobe\Creative Cloud Files\Extra Ordinary\Ep1 - Friendship\_Projects\Ch Ep1 Friendship\Ch Ep1 Friendship.chproj - Output File: C:\Adobe\Renders\Ep1 Friendship\videos\2\2-1-2.mp4 - Preset Used: Match Source - High bitrate - Video: - Audio: - Bitrate: - Encoding Time: 00:00:0001/29/2018 12:35:43 PM : Encoding Failed------------------------------------------------------------Could not read from the source. Please check if it has moved or been deleted.Each following one queued up also fails.  I stop Media encoding, the exit the window and launch it again to try starting up the encoder again. It continues to fail.I exit all Adobe products (Ch,

Thank you for any adviceI am wondering if there is anywhere that has more animations like Maximo offers.  Do any of the adobe products come with a bank of movements?  The Mixamo movements are great but there are many movements that I can't find that I would like.Any tips or advice on this would be appreciated.  I know that I could learn to animate myself but I'm hoping to find a bank of movements that would have everything I need.  Or a tool that is very easy to use to create movements.Thank you!

 タイトルと画像の通りです。RightEyeで指定しているのに原点が左の瞳に認識されてしまいます。選択ツールで原点が触れず…原点の移動の仕方はないのでしょうか。あともう一つ、視点の設定はできたのですが、瞳ではなく目全体が人物のBGを無視してあちこち行ってしまいます。これは私の知識不足だと思うのですが、どうすればいいかわかりません…ご教授いただけたらと思います。 使用osはmacでChは最新版です。

Hello CA team. I hope I haven't been flooding the forums too much lately with all my posts.  I've been thinking about this one for a while whne it comes to integration with AE.  I have multiple puppets talking to each other all the time and definitely need them in the same scene for proper eye responses and general pacing but would really love to important the scene with all the puppets as layers with the transform properties.  Other wise I have to copy each puppet into it's own scene and anchor points get messy since the puppet is a scene at the larger export size than the layer size.  It'd be amazing to have the puppets in a scene as layers with their own dimensions and that layer itself is moving.  Right now if I move a character from own end of the frame to the other the transform properties are for the entire scene size rathen defining the size of the puppet and its maximum reach that moves across the screen.  I'm sorry if this is confusing TT TT

I have a mothers day project I am making and finished it but for some reason I am getting this error code 405861230:237+36. I was having problems exporting to adobe media encoder  and saved what I could before restarting my pc. Upon restarting, media encoder works but now character editor says for one of my puppets it cannot find one of the visemes (oh) and theres is an error adn it wont load. I can click on the puppet and click "edit original" and everything is there in photoshop. Even the viseme that it seems no to be able to find. Also none of my other scenes will export. That is where I get the error code above. What can I do? I am using Adobe Character Animator 2020 version 3.2 I believe on Windows 10 Update - I ended up redoing the puppet that wouldnt load in photoshop from an older version of the file and imported that into character animator. After that, everything worked and exported as it should!

Hello,i would like to know how to save your work in character animator.

Hello, I've been trying to get a fidget spinner to be a prop that spins around my character's finger.  I've done a lot of trial and error and it would even work at times but the performance wouldn't record  properly. Any thoughts?  Hinge is perfect for this and would to get it to work.  Thank you! 

What is a proper way of naming puppet layers in Illustrator to have it auto-tagged as its respective parts in Charactera Animator? I have named an eye as an eye or a blink layer as blink for example, but it's not auto-tagged as eye/blink when imported to Character Animator and it makes me have to rename everything manually, which is time-consuming. Thanks!

I have a puppet sitting in a chair behind a desk.The puppet's layers are ordered below the desk to be able to make him walk behind it and sit down.I want to be able to put my puppet's arms on top of the desk to "work at his pc", but naturally the arms go behind the desk due to the layering order.I tried to create an extra set of arms that are layered on top of the desk, but I can't seem to deactivate the original arms or "invert" the trigger to make the arms disappear.Any tips would be appreciated!

Hi folks, I had a nice walk to the left all going on, puppet turned - with some in between animation - but then when I tagged the other side it's all gone wrong and I can't figure it out. When I turn to the right now I have just a head and when I turn to the left I have nothing. Any help appreciated, this is driving me crazy!

Does anyone know of a program that can convert video of people into animated objects. ie... If i have a video of a human walking, it will convert that video into a dog walking like how the character animator/iphones animoji works. How they mimic ones facial expressions, I was looking for a program that could mimic a a body movement into a animal movement from a predesigned 3d/2d model. Rough animation movements are fine.

I'm new to Character Animator and I'm not sure why the record screen is blank.    

Hello, I am trying to match arm movements in the Record timeline. I can get the arm movements perfect for my right arm, but I can't match the movements easy enough in my left without a ton of trial and error. Is there anyway to copy and mirror the animation from one arm to the other, to get them to sync up? My goal is to have a character wave his arms, but together in the same movements. Thank you!

What would be the most elegant way to record a talk show type scene where the two particpants are far apart? The best I can come up with is to have the two computers independently run character animator with syphon on and record the video conference off something like skype or MS teams...but that gets two uneven sized windows...not the daily show type setup I'd like. I've read the howtos here...but they would seem only to work with comptuers in the same room or they don't seem to support 2 puppets in the same scene. Application: I'm teaching at a uni in the Netherlands. For one of my classes I created video annotations for each of the powerpoint slides using character animator (the red monster is great). Students go through the deck at their own speed and the clips are 30 secs to 5 mins long...good for short attention spans. For a class in the fall there are 2 of us who teach...and we play with each other in front of the class. We want to be in the scene together. Oh...and we don'

Hi, I'm a little confused as to why I'm unable to install version 3.2. I'm trying to work on a project that involves animating a rig built in Illustrator (which I have the most recent version of) however I can't seem to do so. The rig appears in the 'rig' section but not the 'record', which is odd. I'm in the UK, I have no idea if this could be the reason I cannot update? I'm also not sure if it's the fact that I don't have 3.2 for me not being able to correctly open the illustrator rig?Any help would be much appreciated, cheers.

There seems to be a lot more activity here recently as more people are trying out the software. Some of the problems are hard to solve via forum posts and screen grabs. Nothing like sharing a puppet, opening it up, and trying to solve the issues. But I thought it could be interesting for others to watch/suggest/ask live. We could do a Google Meet or similar where people are welcome to join and bring problems, share screens, share puppets and we debug and just chat about techniques live. Would people turn up if a call was organized? Would people be willing to share their puppets to use to debug live? Or even just show off their work for a few minutes and answer questions on how they did it?