Character Animator

I just updated Character Animator today. I set up my scene and everything is good to go. I click record and the prompt shows "Recording in 3,2,1" then Character Animator crashes. This has happened 5 times so it's impossible for me to do anything now on this program.

I am experiencing an issue that with every head tilt, the body follows through with the action, but unfortunately the arms do as well. I am looking for a solution to keep the arms to the side while the body is slightly pivoting from side to side.Are there any suggestions to weigh the arms down or reduce the arm's secondary action from the body movements?Neutral POSELeft EXTREMERight EXTREMEThank you

I"ve created a character in character animator, I'm trying to use the walk behavior to make him walk across the scene.  Everything seems to be working properly other than the head.  The doesn't turn with the body during the walk cycle and I can't for the life of me figure out why this is.  Every time I add the neck tag to the head it either causes the puppet not to walk at all and the head moves (bounces) or it just doesn't do anything.  If anyone can help with this Id greatly appreciate it!Thank you in advance!

Hi, I'm sorry, this might be a stupid question but how do you open a puppet in Photoshop? 

Continuing a thread with Fata Morgana from this thread: Getting a too much complicated face , any suggestions?  Hi Fata. I've found some time to take a look at the puppet. Indeed, there are a TON of dangle handles. The first thing I see is that the Head and Body aren't next to eachother. If you want the head and body to move nicely together, *usually* you want them next to eachother, though their are setups where the head is attached to the body. Outside that and the dangle issue, I see an enormous number of handles in the Puppet panel. I'm guessing these are coming from origin handles from groups in Photoshop. I decided to remove what I thought were redundant groups in Photoshop, but I see that the image isn't identical, so I'm not sure where I made a mistake. In any case, you can see from the two pictures that my version has many fewer handles. That only moved the FPS up from 6 to 8, so clearly the dangle is the biggest issue. But in general, you only want as many groups as you

Hi everyone,I´m so noob using this program but i tried to do some animations with Ch. Is very good this program but i have a question. I have the Akai Apc Mini Midi Keyboard:https://www.google.com/search?q=akai+apc+mini+software&rlz=1C1CHBF_esES832ES832&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjv5… With this midi keyboard i can use the triggers with the square buttons so easy, but when i try use the sliders with the Character Animator doesn´t work.I don´t know if Character animator has a programable editor of buttons for Midi or exist another software compatible with my Akai Apc.Many thanks,David M.

First off I have to save I love Adobe Character Animator and where it is going. That said, it has been frustrating trying to find an external USB camera that Character Animator supports for both video AND audio. The Logitech C922x I bought for this purpose didn't support the correct audio sample rates. Even though I often use an additional USB microphone for audio in Character Animator. Having one device that can do it all is really important to my company. Especially when I am on-site creating animation and it is awkward to set up a lot of gear. I realize that the manufacturers actually obscure these specifications, likely so we don't see the crappy hardware they use for audio processing. It would be incredibly helpful to the community if users could compile and share their real world results with the various webcams available.Can anybody tell me with certainty a model that supports the 44khz or 48khz sampling rate necessary for Character Animator to accept it as an audio source?I am

Hi everyone!  I'm trying to do a simple cycle layers animation, and it keeps disappearing when it hits the last layer.  I've tried this on multiple characters.  The layer is set to visible.  I add a trigger and a cylcle layer.  But in the Scene panel, all layers are invisible until I push the trigger, then it plays the cycle and disappears.  I can check the "Hold on last layer", and it holds, until I push my trigger again and it again disappears. Please helpa.  I know it's something simple, but I can't figure it out.Thanks!John D.

Puppet mouth is not visible except when I move my mouth.  otherwise face has no mouth.  I'm sure it is how I have arranged the layers in the puppet but I can't gfind the problem.

Hey Guys.I just ran into a issue that keept me busy for the last few hours.I want to use the character "sticky" as a starting Point for a new character, so that  I only Need to switch out parts and save the rigging time.BUT once I open the character in CA and PS everything works fine, character reacts, stickst to the Floor and so on. When I do the simplest changes in the PSD file. (even disable a layer, enable it again and save) Back in CA the character seems to have changed its rigging. It is no longer attached to the Floor and I see multyple layers that have not been there before.is there any help?I only want to use it as a base, cause I Need a character with Walking behaviours and the parallax movement as well as the side views.Any help is much appreciated!All the bestFlo

Hi, Can anyone help me to open my file again?I am receiving this error message after I reinstalled CH again.ThanksIan

Hey , im creating an animal character , its a panda , i needed head turner behavior for its head and also different face emotions like crying - angry - cute etc. Which means for every face position like frontal , left quarter and the others (which makes 7 different poses) i need 6 different face styles (including normal)Now the problem is that the face is a little detailed , eyelids and mouth are different for different emotions , the character has white cheeks which i want them moved for more depth.So for all of these , i created a main group named head , followed by groups for head turner like different profiles and each profile has all different types of emotions. now the whole project I have got has a whooping number of 830 layers which i think is just too much and the only thing which is not moving is the main part of the head that consists of only 4 layers.Any suggestions on how to make this project better organised / optimized?

I have a character that is waving in character animator but when i export it and then render it its arm is flailing all over the place and it looks terrible. Why is there a difference between what is showing in character animator and the output?

Hi there,I am fiddling around a little while and wonder if it would be possible to influence clothes on separate layers when moving arms and legs e.g. skirt, cape, ...Thanks in advance,chrispi_

Hi, I'm trying to coy a mouth group from one puppet to another but nothing is working.  I have tried dragging the group from one puppet to the other, that didn't work.  I also tried just copy paste but that didn't work either.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you

I have recently updated the latest versions of Adobe Character Animator ( v 2.0 ) and After Effects ( v 16.0) and cannot export my project/scene to after effects using the dynamic link. You can see the error reproduced below: I have tried rebooting my computer, then opening Character Animator, then opening After Effects (while allowing proper load times between each program launch) - but the error continues. Any assistance on a fix is appreciated.

After being signed out of CC, I signed back in and found all my characters GONE from Character Animator.  There are no files left.  What happened and how do I recover my work?

I need to know how to work  in Character Animator - beyond the helpful training pages. I need to understand what to check for when stuff doesn't work. Nowhere have I found such a thing. Is there a resource I don't know about?

Hello,4 minutes after the effect when I import the 6 minutes, what can be the problem?Good luck with.Character animator recordAfter effect import later 6 minutes?

Hi! I am fairly new to Character Animator but am having an issue with the Proteus Puppet (free download here: Character Animator Examples ).I make changes to it to turn off or on the features (noses, hairstyles, glasses, etc...) I want, then save it to a new puppet with a new name and when I go to make a scene with it I get different features. Wrong eyes, missing glasses/facial hair and such.What am I doing wrong?Would using illustrator to delete any unwanted options work and what woudlbe the best way to go about doing that?Thanks in advance!

Is it possible to zoom to work area? If so what is the keystroke?

I'm trying to make a walking puppet, using the Robot template and the Walking tutorial: Walking (Adobe Character Animator Tutorial) - YouTubeBut when I get to rigging shoulders, no such option appears for me? It's just the neck option.

I have recorded some character movements that are pretty much exactly what I needed. But I get some weird head movements where the character is distorted beyond recognition for maybe half a second. Or maybe a Dragger moment where the hand goes somewhere I didn't want it to go. But overall, I want to keep the whole take, and just edit out a few frames of the crap.I know I can go back and cut that sort of thing out in After Effects, but can I just edit out those bad bits in Character Animator, while keeping the rest? Or do I have to go back and record it all again?Thanks.

Taking the very simple puppet from my previous thread as an example, I was wondering if it would be possible to make the transition (layer cycles) between the two different states different when going forward and backwards, like this?

What is the best way to record a character in order to use it to narrate a video?I have built a Horseshoe character that I use in some horse-how to videos, I have one video that a friend shot and she cut off my recording at the end so I need to superimpose my character over the video and have him narrate instead. I'd like him to point and such so I can make it more dynamic but have no idea how to record and know when to point/when to say to what...I have the video file, I typically use Premiere pro but could use after effects. I want my character in the bottom right corner but he will need to point to areas of the hoof and such.