Character Animator

Hi,I am having a problem with one of my characters, I have set up one character and works fine however my next character, I have all the items set up in folders and mouths appear as tagged in fig mode however mouth doesn't move in scene. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Hello all, I have almost completed my characters frontal position I've produced my character from the original 'blank character' found in the animation tutorials. Big shout out to Okay Samurai for the wonderful tutorials on youtube, I've been learning Ch recently due to the Covid -19 social distancing laws here in the UK and I want to create an animated short.My main issue is with the Jaw line I've checked three tutorials so far both for basic and advanced, I've recreated the jaw back to the way the blank character has. However when I speak the jawline fully covers the neck far more than that of the Illustrator blank puppet template. Supporting image shows jaw line is in and fixed. Any advice would be appreciated, I would like to get this done and start working on left and right profiles and eventually a walking sequence. Very excited. 

Hi there,This is my first time using Character Animator and I decided to ignore the advice to "start simple."  As a result, I have a puppet whose head and torso aren't able to move.  This is still a work in progress, but I eventually want to have a head and body that turn individually.  I thought it would be good to fix the problems now rather than magnify them 5 times by building on a broken file.There's a chance the organization of this heirarchy may be causing the issue, but I suspect it's actually a connection issue.  When I select the "Head" group, a blue box appears around the head, but the torso has the yellow outline.   Also, when I select the Body group, I don't see the pivot/joint/connection point on the neck for the head.I've been trying to troubleshoot this myself for the past 8 hours and decided I should reach out after making exactly zero progress.  I look forward to hearing your input as I'm sure it's going to exponentially expand my kn

When I move my head to one side and then the other only my character's head moves, not his body. How can I make his body move too?

Hi I created a character, added a walk cycle and sucessfully rigger it.But after adding a new scene the puppet is slumped over  (bent forwards) when it walks and both arms are moving together instead of swing forward and backwards independantly.I'm not aware that I did anything to cause it and I've checked the rigging and I cant see any changes.Can somone advise me if they have seen this behavior and how to fix it.Thanks

Hello Beautiful People,Thanks to this software I have more than enough to keep me entertained during this challenging time. I hope you and your families are well.My problem today is I have several characters in a room talking to one another. I have rigged them all with the head turner behavior. It all seems to work fine except when I record head turns. The lip sync stops when they turn their head. It only works when the character is facing forward. First I posistioned the characters, added audio and lip sync, when I recorded head turns the lips stop moving when they turn their head. Why? I rigged the charcters modeled of the walker puppet. If anyone can help me I would very much appreciate it. Thank you.

Hi.We have been using character animator very successfully. Amazing - blown away.BUT we have a new character that is rendering really slowly.We think it may be due to too many layers in photoshop or too much shading on parts.I don't know if the following helps.https://www.dropbox.com/s/grfn217w33y74dq/Screenshot%202020-04-04%2020.20.27.png?dl=0How can we make the character easier to use? Instead of so many layers can we just "chop" him into pngs ie: the arm would have no layers - it would just be a png - one piece.

I really get confused when using this programme, are their any guides which can Help me learn?   

Hi, my version of Character Animator (3.2) crashes on lauch. I had it working fine a few days ago and now it won't start. I have tried restarting my Mac. Then I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app. Same results. My log says:System Integrity Protection: enabledCrashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-threadException Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (Code Signature Invalid)Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000032, 0x000000013d0da000Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFYTermination Reason: Namespace CODESIGNING, Code 0x2 What is "Codesigning"? If it is related to having a CC account, I am currently logged into my CC account.

Hi guys. Seem everything set up correctly and puppet has eyeballs and pupils but eyeballs don't work as bounding box for them. What do I miss?Also, some weird neck behavior. Do I have to set it up in some other way so it doesn't bend that weird?Will very appreciate if will have a look at the puppet and the videohttps://drive.google.com/open?id=1VWko_7fprSJJk4UAEXJ39OrL8RwI7iFg

Spent hours creating my first charactor in Charactor Animator for a client. Was excited to export and do some final things in After Effects, but cannot export for the life of me. When I try to export through AME directly, it shows up, but runs into an error immediately. "Could not read from source, please check it has not been moved or deleted." Well, I have done no moving, so thanks though. I try to import the project into AME, nope, can't connect to Dynamic link. Thats stupid. All programs are up to date. V14.0.4 AME, V3.2 CA. Tried installing and reinstalling both. Nope. Really at the point of screen capturing so I don't totally let my client down, but this is absurd and need to be fixed yesterday. 

hello dear animators how can i play what i have recorded frame by frame. as you can see in the video i hold click in a certain frame to get a pose. but as soon as i let it go it snaps back to the default which is walking. i want it to freeze in that pose not snapping back to walking.

Can anyone help me? I'm trying to modify a puppet in Photoshop wearing a real football jersey(.png image).  When I move the puppets arms the jersey remains stagnant.  How can I make the jersey sleaves move with the puppet's arms like he's wearing the jersey? 

I just opened a after effect project that previously had CH linked projects in them. Now they are all missing. I dont even see a missing file notice they are just gone. Any ideas anyone?

Hello. I was making my character and came across the following problem: Under the puppet in "Rig" I have two groups. One group is called "Right Profile" and the other group is called "Left Profile". I have mirrored positions of the character, one looking right and one looking left. Under the walking behavior that I set in the top most layer that the two groups are below: I set the walking behavior to Left & Right arrow keys.Under "views" there is just "Left Profile" that is showing up. When I try to walk my puppet, only the Left Profile will walk and it will show both the Left and Right Profile view on top of each other. Thanks for your help in advanced. 🙂  

Hey All,I made 2 different mouths for my character and made all the necessary mouths for it, but for some reason, my sad mouths won't work with my lipsync. Any clue what might be the problem? https://drive.google.com/open?id=1K8UotA-381X_RM0IymKZdmo4sqeedH0I

Hi, My puppet working fine up to last night when I saved to finish for the evening. This morning when I reopend Character Animator, when I checked the lipsyncing, the mouth works fine but both the mouth and the face now moves and distorts. I cannot seem to figure what happened? Any first suggestings?

I am using adobe character animator cc 2019 and the camera is only showing the rear camera pls help. I have a surface pro 5

HelloWhen I customize sticky (rig workspace) and say 'create new scene'...the sticky I see in the new scene (record workspace) is the (lovely) default...who looks, unfortunately, nothing like me🙂 oh...I exported the modified puppet and imported it into a new project. Still is default in 'record' even though in rigging all the modifications show. On export through media encoder the result is the default puppet as well. 

I imported many puppets from the home screen, and recorded the Chloe puppet waving and talking via lip sync. Then, I made like a dozen duplicates of that puppet in the timeline, and replaced all the waving-talking Chloes with other puppets like the Dr. Applesmith puppet by right clicking them and selecting "Replace with Selected Puppet in Project Panel". The new puppets face/lip sync fine, but they don't wave their arm, even after I put the dragger behavior on their rig and made their hands independent. Am I missing something?

Say I have a few swapsets, one for eyebrows, one for mouths, one for eyes. And in those swapsets are art named AngryEyes, AngryEyebrows, and AngryMouth (for example) and also HappyEyes, HappyEybrows, and HappyMouth. I know that I can give each of these the same trigger key so that I can make the matching pieces trigger in unison.  I'm wondering if there's a way to group together all the Happy stuff (Eyes, Eyebrows, and Mouth), rather than have them split across three different swapsets. Does that question make sense?  It seems like it's a little easier to group them up this way, so that if later I want to create AngryEars or HappyNose, I don't need to poke around in multiple swapsets to see what's going on. What's a good practice to establish for organizing this kind of thing?

Hi guys,I am wondering if anybody could help me, please… I am making a character of my son by modifying the ‘Chloe' puppet and importing a lot of graphics from the ‘Tull’ puppet… I am nearly done and am just finishing the rigging stage but for some reason when I trigger a different mouth trigger the mouth I am triggering disappears. It's been working no probs for the last few days and only started disappearing this morning and have been wrecking my head as to why.  Also… and again this was working… when I move a new trigger into the controls panel the visual graphic icon does not appear. See bottom 3. Any help on both accounts would be much appreciated 🙂 Have attached the puppet below for reference.https://www.dropbox.com/s/t0xeud20c70d9kn/Seth5.puppet?dl=0 Andrew

It seems that the lip synch is a second or so behind the audio when I record a video or use CA with zoom. Any ideas how to fix this?thank you

My puppet is warping in the neck/arm area... For some reason, the right arm doesn't seem connected to the body, and the head doesn't move by itself (even though I moved the "Head Icon" to my puppet's neck). Please see images.... Could someone let me know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks

I've tried everything I can think of from the tutorials...I cannot even pin the feet down..I have only been working with this program a week but I've managed to get the dangle to work great and spaghetti arms.... not liking the hinge attatch to the arms...plus it didn't change the body problem..so if anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it.. It just floats back and forth with my head movements!?