Character Animator

Hi Everybody,my project is working on a puppet similar to Dr.Applesmith. So i just copied and renamed him and add some Animation Layers of the Arm and Head that i want to put on triggers. When i imported the renamed PSD File the Mesh structure changed as you can see in my attachment. So how can i put the head out of the body yellow line like it is in the original? How can i manipulate it except of seperate the layer with the plus sign in PS or the crown sign in Ch Animator? Cheers and thank you for feedback  JP

drive.google.com/file/d/1UjkqKtTSaOVLigscfJTOJJra8ABaVsb2/view?usp=sharing… https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dTj49-bVkOEKdUXEGJOQLGrtB9qllrNa/view?usp=sharing… The mouth triggers work perfectly in "BubbleFest" but not in "QueenBodyCA" even though they're set up the exact same way???

I'm on a MacBook Pro running Mojave 10.14.6.  I have the latest versions of Character Animator (2.1.1 Build 7) and Media Encoder (13.1.5 Build 35).  However, I can't get Media Encoder to launch from Character Animator.  When I go to File Export, sometimes AME export options are grayed out, and sometimes it prompts me for a filename, and after a delay of a minute or two I get the error message "Failed to launch Adove Media Encoder".  I've tried many combinations of quitting and restarting the two apps, and restarting the machine.  I've also tried removing the ~/Library/Caches/Adobe/Adobe Media Encoder/13.0 folder. Any ideas?

Hello Support Community, Just curious if anyone has found a way to export the timeline data as some type of text format (XML, CSV, etc)? Basically, I'm trying to see if it's possible to get the viseme and trigger data out of Character Animator for use elsewhere: another program, a traditional x-sheet, etc. I've been snooping around the folder/file structure but haven't found anything useful. Any thoughts?

Hello!  I am trying to find more resources online to help learn adobe character animator that goes in depth into the layer set up and rigging.  For example, why stuff works the way it works rather than click here because this works.  I have run into issues and I dont know how to trouble shoot them and I feel like it's because I don't understand the basics of the features and behaviors.  For example, why do you put ARM IK on the entire puppet rather than on the arm group? I see that tutorials say to do that, but I dont know why its working that way.  Also, what needs to be a group and what needs to be a layer? Does the walk cycle only work if your character has legs? What if your character design is one without legs but just feet? Can I tag the feet as knees and waist?  My character is a bunny and doesn't have actual legs.  Is there a feature that can allow hopping? Or do I need to create the hopping as a cycle layer? The reason being is because I

So im using Sticky and i added in a drawing from photoshop, when i imported it looks like this and the whole background moves with my head. Not sure why 

Now i still use 2.0. where i can Update ?Thank you .

Heloo mighty Adobe people! Once more I come before you to share my work which would not be possible without your priceless help and patience! Just like the last time, I made an animated vlogger, only this time it's in english! So please take the time and take a look! I used all my skills from Dave's amazing tutorials and here I am!  https://youtu.be/MVuuHIaivGg  Please tell me what you think, because a word from you guys is worth more than a thousand muggles phrases!

I imported prerecorded dialogue and was happily recording my face performance earlier today. I just now reopened my project and hit the record button and I can't hear the dialogue anymore. I can hear it on playback, just not when I'm recording a performance, which is kind of crucial. None of the audio tracks are muted, the microphone and lip-sync buttons are turned off. I've tried closing and restarting Ch as well as restarting the computer. I'm running on Mac Mojave 10.14.4. Any help is appreciated!Update! I found a workaround. I hit play FIRST then hit record as the playhead was moving. It's not super accurate, but it seems to work for now.Message was edited by: Nora Novak

2 quick questions for all the character animator experts 1- Is there a way to open and close all timeline trigger triangle tabs from different takes at once like you can in Photoshop by clicking one triangle and pressing command? 2- Is there a way to rename a recorded track take once it’s already in the timeline? I’m trying to rename a recorded track and I can’t. Even if I rename it in the puppet workspace. 

Hello Character Animator community, I've been working with Character Animator the better part of this year and I'm beginning to have fairly complex puppets and scene setups. One thing I noticed when I wanted to reuse a puppet was that things I thought I had set such as Transform values and Walk values would be changed if I made a new scene with that existing puppet. Now I'm 99% sure this is intended behavior, and that values you set in the rigging tab are the "base" values and those can be overwritten by adjusting behaviors in a scene. The issue I have is that after working to get a puppet performing well, I end up wanting to use the scene values when reusing the puppet. This happens a lot because tweaking things like Walk values is very dependent on having visual feedback on how they are working, so you end up setting those in a scene and then find the puppet does not walk like it was when you add it to a new scene. The only solution I can think of is to open every beha

Hi ChAnimator People, I am going crazy over here.I have been wrestling with my puppet's walk cycle for 2 hours now and I can't figure out for the love of god why my character doesn't walk the same way between left and right. It walks fine going (his) left but completely slouches and is compressed a little bit when walking (his) right. I have checked the rigging again and again. I have checked the mesh again and again. I am going crazy right now. Here is the .puppet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10EL8S81kK_UjelOL-Ks1XPN3gfUJGL_t/view?usp=sharingWould really appreciate a hint for where I made a mistake. Alassane

I hope someone can help me.I sending a adobe charakter animator puppet via NDI to OBS.I can see in the studio Monitor from NDI the souce and it looks perfekt but in OBS i have strange like triangle pixel errors.I have tried it on 2 computers and even sending it via the network dosnt fix the issue.

Character animator is making my puppet blink in only one eyeit's not pulling in the illustrator file as the illustrator file isand it's causing issues with the 'auto-blink' function  https://drive.google.com/file/d/11qKl5to-BptXyv0_0N-J-pbHI_WqfzSz/view?usp=sharing

Hallo Zusammen Ich würde gerne wissen wie ich 2 Puppets in einem Video spielen lassen kann.hat da jemand evtl eine gute anleitung oder video ? Liebe Grüsse Tayfun

When I add multiple CH dynamic links to an AE project file, my RAM increases significantly even for those CH links not being used in the specific timeline.  I try to reduce RAM usage by putting AE playback on 1/3, close CH when AE is being used and AE cache is on an Samsung T5 portable SSD.    I would like to keep my project in one AE file but maybe there is a recommended limit on the number of CH dynamic links per AE file?     Thanks Here is my hardware information:CPU: i7 7700HQ 2.8Ghz 4 coreRAM: 16GBGPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050OS: Windows 10

Hello, I'm a newbie to CH and I want to create a swooping eagle character, but not sure where to start?Is there a place where I can find an eagle that I can animate or do I have to start from scratch?  Thanks

Looking for anyone in Atlanta for hire to teach me how to animate. 

I posted here a fairly complex question to the Ch forum 2 days ago (9/27), took me a while to compose, and I just now checked for the first time and I don't see it on the home page or the second page which is already taking me back more than two days. I went to my browser history and found the page of my post, but I have no idea how to get there through normal channels nor what good it is if no one who might have my answer sees it on the forum home page. I apologize for sounding like I'm throwing flame (ala Okay Samurai's latest animation), but should the new forum have gone live before it was at least a little more functional? Sorry,Martin

Man, am I worried about writing a long post here. This new forum setup has been giving me agita on the Premiere site. But here goes: My puppet is made of large photographs, basically, 2400 x 4800 pixels. I built it in a PSD file of these dimensions. Cutting out the images—photos were not green screened unfortunately—is much easier at a higher rez and there are other reasons for keeping everything full size. But this is ultimately, way too big a file for Ch to handle in my tired old computer, at least once we've got all the postions and alts, etc. That's fine; I finished building him, duplicated, made the new one a more managable size and that's my little guy. But here's the thing, when I want a variation, I'd like to be able to Edit Original (⌘E) and get back to the big file. Or, if that's not achievable, to at least be able to do revisions to big guy and then apply all Behaviors, Tags, etc. I don't want to have to make my changes directly in PhotoShop and then reapply a

I don't know what the problem is here , my MIC records well in any other programs and I use it on live streams often, but wen recording in Character Animator once i playback the scene the audio is slowed down and stuttery/ distorted. I have tried changing the audio settings with no changes helping.

Anybody got any suggestions for lip-synching a song with a puppet. The puppet seems to pick up the music too. Any tips to improve the accuracy of the synch?

In the same scene I want to show a puppet walking then stopping (and talking).  For the puppet, I have a walk and stand profile.  However I haven't figured out how to use the different profiles in the same scene.  Am I able to use both profiles in the same scene or do I need to do break the scene into 2 parts (Walking & Standing)?  Any suggestions are appreciated.   

Hello & Welcome to the NEW Character Animator Support Community!   My name is Colin and I am your community manager responsible for managing this community along with Kevin, Caroline, Rameez, Sumeet and Shivangi. We are super stoked to have you join us in this new support community.    This community will be a one-stop-shop for all your questions, answers, educational content, concerns, and even the coveted viritual Hi5!    If you have any questions or comments about this new Character Animator community, please feel free to post here... We are listening!   Cheers, Colin

Hello! I was wondering if I could get some help with this puppet.  I have only done his head so far because I'd like to practice with character animator.  Right now, I am having issues with his pupils not staying within the parameters of his eye balls.  Please help!  I am new to character animator!! Please see photos below.  Could it be the design of the character's eyes? Possibly his pupil size?