Character Animator

Hi,I am creating a character that has happy and sad mouth set but my characters' sad mouth only shows neutral when triggred. (Lip Sync isn't working ) Lip Sync's numbers is one instead of two. How do I change thsese numbers?

Upgrading to the new 2.1 build release did something to the puppet rig. Originally, this character would tilt left and right with a fixed point at his stomach/waist area. No matter what I do, it seems like the puppet is stuck wanting to bend at a point around his upper chest. I've tried removing all fixed points, adding a new fixed point, and nothing seems to affect it.

Hi! I'm relatively new to character animator, and I'm trying to accomplish some very specific things:1) Am I able to pick and choose what sets of cycles auto blink will control and my face will control? I'd like to have motion capture effect the eyebrow movement and mouth shapes while having the blinking occur on an auto cycle, but I can't disable one without effecting the other (when I undefine the right and left blinks in an attempt to remove the feature from the camera, it also takes it away from the auto blink function)2) Can I assign the auto blink to particular eye shapes so that it's only active during the moments that a particular group in a swap set is active? He'll blink (with auto blink on) while an eyeshape that doesn't call for that to happen in active in a swap set. The character that I'm working with doesn't have eyes that have a typical eyeball/pupil dynamic, so it would be nice to have the blink disabled while particular eye shapes are active.Thanks in advance!-Paul

I'm an advanced Premier and After Effects person, but I am brand new to Adobe Character Animator, other than watching some Okay Samarai tutorials. I'm looking for help with building scenes that I can put my characters into. Any  good tutorials out there for building scenes either from scratch or from objects? Like I said, I'm brand new to Character Animator.

Fixed issuesProjectsOpening a project in the current version that was previously opened in a newer version but no changes were made no longer shows an inaccurate and confusing "project-name was modified by another app while open in this app. Please quit or open a different project."Puppets and the Puppet panelRenaming a layer in a duplicated group is possible again.CharacterizerFixed a possible crash in Characterizer.Controls panelCustom name for a grouped parameter control is now retained after incorporating changes to the puppet's artwork.Timeline panelTrigger bars no longer disappear when zooming in.Fixed a possible crash when quickly adjusting the trim or blend points for takes in a complex scene.Replacing a puppet track's source with a different puppet from the Project panel should no longer cause a "expected model.Puppet" error.Dynamic LinkDragging a scene into After Effects or Adobe Media Encoder no longer shows an inaccurate and confusing "project-name was modified by another a

I have several puppets in a timeline that have dynamic and collide tags. When I export a png sequence of the scene, the puppets are not moving. Also, the puppets do not move when I view the scene via Dynamic Link in After Effects. I tried recording the physics behavior to the timeline in CH, but this does not seem to change anything.The behaviors are set to start immediately.Also, exporting as a mov with alpha results the same.What am I missing here?Thnx...

Hi Again,I was watching a Mr.Bean video on youtube and I counldn't figure how they made the moving background scene.Please use the link below to watch just 7 second of the eposide that I am talking about. (From 1:29 - 1:37 )Joy Ride | Funny Episodes | Mr Bean Official - YouTube Thanks

OMG...1st selected audio play very well....however the second mp3 is not played as belowit seems fine but there is no soundI replace several times but can't figure out

Currently working on a character (specifically a cat) and curious if there is a better way to set up characters in general. Mainly for the legs/arms, is it better to have separate layers (one for the foot, one for the shin, and and one for the thigh) nested within a general layer (ex. leg, arm) or is it better to have them combined (ex one shape)? Or maybe even just grouped? Right now I have them in the same folder but different layers, which seems to get a bit messy when trying to add handles but maybe I am just not doing it right. Secondly, any tips on rigging animals for walking? I linked the handles based on actual anatomy and the results are a bit horrific hahaha

This may or may not be off the wall....  I am interested in making videos.  My videos would include me and cartoon characters with me.Equipment I have- Camera, lighting, greenscreen, Adobe Photoshop cc, and hope I am allowed by saying this...I do have PowerDirector, which I am more than happy to replace with an Adobe productI want to create characters that would interact with me...with music at times.  Movable bodies mouths the possibly lip sync to either music or different voices, etc... and then record myself against a greenscreen and then bring my characters into the mix.Ive seen lots of videos (youtube) and here on Adobe.com, but I may just be getting info overload but I seem to be totally confused.   Is there anyone that can see what I am looking to do and give me a direction to start?I hope I was able to explain it some....but that is the basics.TIA to all,Ken

Hello everyone! I'll try to be as detailed as possible about my set up here: I've both watched and read multiple tutorials, I'm thinking I jumbled the information together? Haha I'm unsure what happened here...Anyway, I am specifically trying to have my characters original eyes disappear to play a 6 framed eye cycle when she blinks. I'm trying to have it happen at the push of a button, but if possible I would prefer her to play the cycle when I blink. She has no pupil or eyelid to move, her eyes are each each drawn on their own flat lair.I'm wanting her to look at the same spot 24/7 anyway.This is my current set up, if anyone has any idea what to do I would love any advice. Thank you!

I do not yet have Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Character but want to know if I can create an animated character (movement, facial expressions, etc) of something other than a person? For example, a tree with a face and eyes and can move its mouth to speak.

Hi,When I import a background image in Character Animator, the color of my puppet changes. I can't figure out why.

So, I've seen this brought up many times, still (after days of trying everything I can think of) I can't seem to figure out why feet don't stay fixed and why my puppets whole body moves with my head. It's probably something super simple and obvious, but I'm banging my head up against the wall at this point. I've attached a couple of screenshots that may or may not be helpful to the resolution. Thanks.

I'm having a problem with my character's hip that pulls to the right when I move its left arm. I can't seem to figure out how to prevent this. I tried adding a fixed anchor on each side of the hip, but it still pulls. I'm wondering if the bounding box of the arm overlaps the hip, is that what's causing it? How do I prevent this?

I saved my character. Closed out Character Design, wrote my script and when I came back to my character he looks like a test pattern

I've watched and read the debugging blog and video and its not stray pixels as my pupils and eyeballs are vectors. It was working fine this week and now out of nowhere the eyes are acting crazy.

Hi,When I import a background image in Character Animator, the color of my puppet changes. I can't figure out why.

So this is a question for advanced users. I'm trying to build a puppet with two heads sharing the same body. Is it possible? Please give me a hint on how to set this up. I know there should be a way to have two separate head tags but I can't find it. Here is what I mean. I wish to arm and disarm behaviors for each to be able to control it and to look like one puppet. Please help...

Hello..I downloaded  NewTek NDI 3.8 Tools to use it for live streaming with Adobe character animator..and set up up the settings like thisThe problem in NewTek NDI Studio Monitor that is not showing adobe character animator in 95% times that i tried to make it..(in 5% It showed it perfectly)Notice: I use windows 10 64Is there any solution ??

HelloCan someone explain how to stop the shadow at the feet of the walking character (separate layer in Ai) bouncing up and down with the character's movements? I have tried putting numerous pintools in the shadow but it does not stop it going up and down. ThanksGeoff Axon

Hello so I have been working on this cartoon animated series for about a month now, I am finally ready to go all characters up and running scenes etc. It is my first time using CH but I have good knowledge of photoshop. When I render the video and export to premier pro to do some panning etc when I zoom in the video appears pixelated, I exported it as 1080p the scenes and characters are all huge and I have scaled them down to fit, this is really frustrating I feel like its one set back after another can I please get some help.Claire

When I rig one arm and move it, the other arm moves however we want it to remain stationary.  Also would like legs to pin down, however they do not stay put.  Any assistance is appreciated.

When I record a take I am not hearing the audio that I have imported to the scene and computed lip sync to. There are important audio cues that I need to listen for as I record a take for facial feature movements.I made sure the audio output in preferences is set to my listening device and I've tried both having lip sync armed and disarmed. Neither produce audio while recording.

Hi Current I am facing this problem, and couldn't find something online regarding it.So I accidentally have the head in the wrong place.Current:Ideal:But when I move it, I will lose a lot of settings in Adobe Character Animator, Is there a better solution, then to start all over new?Current:After the change: