Character Animator

Hey there, Im having an issue where Iv'e computed lip sync record and gone in to match them up however the "ah" (2 files) only seems to play the first two files then goes blank... the rest of the files are fine. it doesnt seem to want to latch on to the last file... what am i doing wrong?*Update* I can get the file to latch if I turn off the cycle layers... but it's not ideal... plus i have to turn off the other file...*Update 2* I've checked over the rest of the visemes and this issue seems to be limited to the "ah" & "oh" files.

Hey guys!First time posting here, I'm rigging up my first character after watching a bunch of Okay Samurai's amazing tutorial videos.The *good* news is....man is this a great tool and super easy to use so far.Buuuut....I cannot get this fool's left arm to work right at all, and they are both configured the same way (as far as I can tell). Here is the setup for the right arm:and here's the right arm in action: Then here's the left arm configured...looks identical to me? But then look at this limp noodle go!Any ideas on how to fix this? As a side question:  I'd rather the shoulders do a true "pivot" at the shoulder instead of doing that smooth bending transition (like, independent from the body, yet pivots at the shoulder point if that makes sense?) How would I do that? Thank you in advance!

fixed, thank you 

Hi everyone,Since few days i have problems with the Walk Function in Character Animator.i go into Record Mode, and walk with the character into a position. After the Record Mode, the position does not match anymore.   See yourself, video is attached. Thank you for help guys! 

Hi,    If I want to track my face, does it make a difference wether the webcam I buy is 30 or 60FPS? And 1080p or 720p?   I will make sure to have good lighting and eliminate any other factors that might affect the tracking, but in specific regards to the FPS and P, are these important?    TY   [This post moved from Animate to Character Animator Community by Moderator.]

First, I was born with severe dyslexia. Please pardon any spelling or grammar mistakes.I use Premiere and Illustrator daily with hardly any problems. Other than Premiere from time to time will need to restart. But, nothing to hair pulling. I just took an entire eight-hour class on how to use Adobe Character. So excited to drive in. But, it freezes within seconds to minutes every time I use it. It doesn't matter what puppet I try, scene, or new project. With no warning freezes in less than five minutes of work or less then I have to force quit the application each time. I've taken a sample of the data within a second of it freezing. I will paste it below.Things I have tried.Restarting the computerClosing all program. Restarting the computer. Only having Character Animator start and that's the only "official" program running.Something weird started to happen. Every time I would select a puppet Photoshop or Illustrator would automatically open and open the puppet. Just like if you clicked

Is there a size limit for importing an Illustrator file as a background?I have one that has an artboard of 10600 px / 3000 pxAnd am getting the attached image error

I have a desktop with a AMD socket for CPU. What AMD processor do you recommend so charactor animator can work efficiently?

Hi guys , I have a full adobe plan with character animator included. The problem is that my computer  is running with windows 7  Do you know where I can find an old version of Character aniamtor running for windows 7?   Thanks   Title edited by Mod

Hi, I was able to import the old version just fine but since upgrading Character it does not recognise the Dynamic Link Server and says project annot be opened. I just updated After Effects to v16.1.3 (latest version) also and restarted my mac. I'm still able to import old character version 2.11 but I have done all my edits to latest version so don't want spend ages recreating the recording again. I also created a test new project to make sure there was nothing wrong with my current one and same issue.   Any solution to this i'm overlooking?    Thanks   Ben   Title edited by Mod

Is there a way for the cursor to snap to the keyframes?

Hi, I have been using Character Animator since July and have never ran into any issues with importing an ai file until today. I am trying to import an ai file to create a puppet and I keep getting this error: Error (3.0x276): Error Opening Illustrator File (64) I have never seen this error before. I basically had a character pack that I took pieces from and copied into a new ai file & saved in another location. I have used character packs like this before & have never had an issue. I don't know why I am having this issue now. If you have any information of how to resolve this, that would be wonderful. Thanks.

Trying to rig a puppet with head turn in-betweens including inbetweens for neck: two inbetweens before upward, downward, left 3/4 and right 3/4 head. When I  cycle the layers appear together and not one by one. Does anybody know how I can fix this? Thank you   Title edited by Mod

Hi ! I'm stuck in my workflow with that error. I can't import my AI character file. The only help I found about it is this post : https://helpx.adobe.com/adobe-character-animator/kb/known-issues.html Issue:  "Error opening Illustrator file. (64)" error message appears -- if the file was saved from Illustrator 2020 (Version 24.0) in the Illustrator 2020 format (Version is set to Illustrator 2020 in the Illustrator Options dialog box).Workaround: Set Version to Illustrator CC (Legacy) in the Illustrator Options dialog box.They I don't understand the workaround. I'm on windows and they show me a IOS setings window. I can't find it and it makes me mad... Thanks for the help !

I installed Character Animator 3.0 but when I attempt to open it the splash screen comes up,  a few items start to load and it then dies.   Verse 2.1.1 still works.  I uninstalled 3.0 rebooted and reinstalled same problem.     Any suggestions?   Title edited by Mod

Today a sneak peek at an upcoming feature in Character Animator was shown: Keyframes!   That's right, keyframes have come into the feature set in an upcoming version of Character Animator.   What are your thoughts about this new feature? We are curious!    

Hi there. Imported audio file does not play in full i.e. the last 15 seconds is missing from the audio file after import. Can you help me how to set Charecter  Animator to play the audio in full? The length of the audio file should be 1:13s. Thanks in anticipation.

How would I go about rigging a quadruped animal on charactor animator? I’ve only watched characters with two arms and two legs tutorials.

Hi, Complete newbie to this software and have realised that when I add new objects to my chracter i.e. a guitar or dumbells it warps the arms. When I remove the object completely and click save. the warping goes away. You can see below what I mean and how I added the object in Illustrator. Any help would be great.  Thanks Ben

Subject said it all. A new version of Ch just came out. I'm in the middle of a project. Is it safe to update? Martin

Hi, I make simple cartoons for You Tube. I used to do it in After Effects but recently I decided to try Character Animator. Now I have a few big problems. Is there a way to easily interact with the objects in the scene? In AE I simply moved my puppet arm towards specific object, then used Pick Whip to connect arm with the object and that was it. My puppet held that object. Quick and easy. In Character Animator I guess I can't do it the same way. Or maybe there is a way? Please help me I saw Okay Samurai tutorial about that topic and the answer was to make in Photoshop a hand already holding the object and use trigger in Character Animator to use that hand in proper place and time. That seems a lot of work when you dealing with story based cartoon with lot of movement, action and so on. Especially when you make it(like I do) on the spot. I would be very happy with any help in that aspect ALSO (another big problem) how do I make my puppet, for example, jump in the air? I have a problem

I searched the forums for solutions to the "audio levels too low" thing, but none of the solutions work for me. My recordings in Audition are plenty loud, but I still get the error in CA. Also, viseme detection is really bad, even when I use professionally pre-recorded audio, or when I try the new "camera-based muting" option. Any ideas for what I could try?

Anyone else having this problem? It was working fine in the previous version... just updated today. 

Whenever I switch from my PC at work to my Mac at home, I have to relink all my files. Is there a preference I'm not finding for the paths to be saved as relative instead of absolute?

i went through a tutorial to get a character set up than when i was ready to make my first recording the buttons are nowhere to be found, and i am seriosly thinking about gving up on trying character animator because when ever i enter something dissapears, and now i cant record, so idk what about that but i would like to be able to just use the record buttong but i cant find it