Character Animator

 The PSD-CharacterCooker workflow is available. It's a huge timesaver to populate your scenes with different characters. In theory anyone can setup a workflow like this, but I did the work for you.Change the masters and export the layers to the right folder. Puppets will inherit all behaviors that are allready assigned to the templatepuppet, and of course you can add your own.  Warmly embraced  by the CH team. Watch the tutorial and convince yourself.  

Hi guysI need help and maybe some of you will know the answer to my problem. PROBLEM:Even when my puppet is pinned to the floor, every time I want my puppet to bend down to the right, legs get off the floor and also start pointing right. Just like in the screenshots. [url=https://ifotos.pl/z/qaxxerp/][img]https://s6.ifotos.pl/mini/1jpg_qaxxerp.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://ifotos.pl/z/qaxxerh/][img]https://s6.ifotos.pl/mini/2jpg_qaxxerh.jpg[/img][/url]I tried to play with my puppet's main origin point but without a success. I tried it with and without walk behalvior.Maybe some of you had a similar problem and found a solution to it?Here's a link to my puppet (I couldn't attach my puppet to this post):https://www.sendspace.com/file/wc92gsThx in advance.

 PSD-CharacterCooker is avialable now! Easy to use. Featured by the team ! Mentioned by Okaysamurai !It's available! @DaveWerner allready mentioned it in the latest CommunitySpotlight ! round minut 7.Even more than the Adobe Animate version of #CharacterCooker 1, this PSD version is an easy to learn massive timesaver when it comes to quickly build new puppets to populate your artwork. Curious how it works? Sit back a few minutes and watch this tutorial that ships with the package.

I was editing a puppet for Character Animator in Photoshop, the only thing that was changed is the color of the hand, now when I make the puppet point the hand disappears.  What did I do wrong? 

CA 2020Trying to have my characters arm hit a drum.  I have 3 layers in a group.  I added Cycle Layers to the group.  Cycle once, top to bottom, forward and reverse, advance every 7 frames--all typical settings.  No matter what changes I make, the result I'm getting is that it shows only the first layer for the 7 frames  then it disappears.I've tried combinations of showing/hiding the group, individual layers and combinations of independence.  None of those combinations change my result.  Just seeing one layer, not the others.

I just put out a 12 minute documentary, told in the words of the subject, folk musician Phil Ochs.  All the audio was cut together from random public domain YouTube interviews and performances from the 60s and 70s, and it's bookended by audio from the tragic last year of his life with the middle chunk explaining who he was as an artist and why he was culturally relevant in his era/ how culture and politics wore him down.    In regards to Character Animator, I did everything in Illustrator and made heavy use of the Wiggler behavior to give a bit more life to the animations, including the backgrounds.  It was largely done prior to 3.0 so there's a lot of functions I didn't get a chance to use for this project, but I thought Ch is the perfect vehicle for doing documentary animation in the same vein as Mike Judge's "Tales From The Tour Bus" series.   Let me know what you think!

I have a puppet where the left side of his body isn't rising up with the rest of the body.  This is my layout.  What am I doing wrong?

Hi. Since I started using Creative Cloud Character Animator 3.1 my IMAC fans go super loud as soon as I launch it. I tested opening the same project in 2.11 and fans are quiet as a mouse. It seems 3.1 is drivng the system very hard? It is reporting in Activity monitor over 200% CPU usage!?  Problem is that I can not record audio with such loud fan noise.  My machine is Late 2015 iMAC 3.2 Ghz Quad Core i5 with 32Gb memory.  Anyone else having similar issues? 

I have a big problem trying to open a Ch A. project. I get the following error:There is a solution to this error, the files are saved on an external disk, I suppose there must have been a communication error? 

Hello,     I have two questions:     Is it possible to have a bidirectional workflow between After Effects, Character Animator, and Premiere Pro? Or, is it only one way... i.e. out of Ch to the others?     Also will a Camera I create be exported into AE?Thanks in advance for your help.Regards,Rajnesh

Hi Character Animator customers!   For a couple of versions now, we've been seeing a crash where V8 (the JavaScript engine we use which runs the code for puppet behaviors in your scenes) complains it is out of memory. We've seen in once in house, but haven't had any luck cornering it. I'm creating this thread as a support link for the crash reporter bucket containing these crashes. If you also inspect the crash reports you send to Apple and you find any of these names in it, please get in touch by replying to this thread.       v8::base::OS::Abort v8::Utils::ReportOOMFailure v8::internal::V8::FatalProcessOutOfMemory v8::internal::Heap::FatalProcessOutOfMemory       I would love to corner this bug and squash it so it stops biting our customers.   Dan Tull Sr. Software QE Developer Character Animator Team

Does anyone know if CA will be getting multiple types of pin tools like After Effects any time soon? Having a starch pin type would make life easier 🙂

Hey everyone, I am in the process of creating a show with multiple similar characters, mostly kids. I have been working on setting up the layers and rig for the Main character's puppet, and was wondering on what is the most efficient way to create other characters without having to create everything from scratch. Any thoughts?

So here's the thing: I have:1. Direction Front (The Body and Bottom facing to the front)2. Direction Right (The Body and Bottom facing to the right side of the character) I put the two layers inside a Swap Set and have the Direction Front layer as the default, which means the Direction Right layer is now hidden until I trigger it. In the Direction Right layer, I have an arm which I rigged with sticks and draggable points, like usual. And so is the same with the Direction Front layer, which is obvious of course, hehehe. When I do some dragging with the Direction Front layer, the draggable area in the Direction Right layer is also dragged. How to make hidden layers undraggable without deleting the draggable points?Thank you!

I accidentally stuck 3 pins on a layerHow do I clear them?

I'm trying to create a character that has stick-on googly eyesI would like the pupils to have a little jiggle like real googly eyesIt seems that physics has no effect on a pupil(I cannot get anything to work)Any suggestions on what to try? 

I would like to make 2 versions of the same animation. Is there a way to make one complete scene, then swap the puppet or artwork from a puppet and keep all the same lip-synching and audio?

Hi, I made a character for character animator which has a goatee and I'm trying to make it move with the face. After much work I cant seem to make it work. Can you tell me what I'm missing?Below it is what happens when I'm trying to make it move. I have created a jaw layer because a youtuber told me to do it, I dont know what to do to make it work. 

Hello! I'm playing with the position based walk cycle, The character walks from left of the scene to the right and comes to a standstill, however i would like the charcter to stay on the right profile when it comes to a standstill instead of swapping to the frontal profile.  Is this possible? Also, is it the same for everyone that when using the position based walk cycle, if you adjust the walk strength, it makes the character look like its ice skating? Im guessin its just a bug or something they need to iron out eventually? Thanks!

Hi there! Im wanting to have two characters in one scene hold hands, so whilst holding hands if one characters arm movesslightly, it would gently move the other and vice versa.  Is that possibly in Character Animator? Many thanks!

HelloI started use character animation since 2018. Character Animation version 1.5 (2018) was good , mean lip sync have worked good but after version 2.0 everything going bad for me because lip syncs starts jump give spaces on timeline.  Everything i tried but i couldn't  figue out it. Please help me.Documents  voice wav  and chracater animation files ->https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wa4u4L0dXMDRxLZm5ci69vYpCMzE9zWY 

Hi, I'm trying to make it so when triggered particles fall from the top of screen like the snow option..I have the particle set to "point n shoot" but the issue is that I manually move my characters arms and when doing so this triggers the particles to drop, it happens on all the other settings too..I've even setup a trigger but nothing happens with clicked...can't seem to work it out..

Hi, I created a clock and I want it to change time, how do I make it fade out one hand and fade in next hand. I just want to the small hand (9) to fade out and fade in small hand (12)

Can't figure out why my Illustrator layers are not showing up in the Rig window. It shows up as "Layer 1". 

We are happy to announce the release of Adobe Character Animator 3.1. The update provides important fixes and is recommended for all users. This update also includes two new features: Assign labels to Triggers Search filters for project items To know more, check What’s new in Adobe Character Animator.