Character Animator

I have created a walk cycle for my puppet based on the example in Wonder Boy. I would now like my puppet to walk towards the camera - essentially scale up and slightly change X and Y position—and then stop. I feel I should be able to do this by recording my guy walking at the starting position and scale—small and near the top of the screen—and then record him standing in his final position and then, per the Recording & Editing tutorial, blend the two takes. But I can't figure out how. Dragging the scale and position behaviors in my timeline to blend the two takes just imposes one take of the puppet on top of the other. How do I do this?Martin

I set up Swap Sets for my character's hands. I have a front view and body turns in each direction (1/4 and 1/2 in each).  All the hands are working in each "view" except one group (shown here) where the "default" hand disappears and no others in the swap set show at all. I'm perplexed at very least, but I'm sure it's something I don't see.Anybody have this problem before?Thanks for any help you can give.

Hi there,I've deleted all the automated blinking and because there was no behavior, I added it and then I deleted it The next step was to remove the word "blink" in the terms and now in the quarter profile the standard eyechanges it size like it is blinking..Thank youo.

When I export, my puppet's arm always goes in a different direction.How do I fix that?I've tried "Arm IK", but that's not working either.....Please help

Hello there!I've been trying to export a sequence from Character animator as a PNG sequence, but it only exports the first 501 frames and leaves out the rest. I wonder how I could export the whole 36 seconds long scene? I would much appreciate help! Thank you!!!With kind regards, Johanna

I am creating a new character, based off of a previous character I created (that rigged up fine)... and for some reason I can't seem to figure out what I could have done to this new character based on the same file.  I thought I would ask here to see if anyone has come across this?When I move my head, the body and arms seem to sway with it... I want the head and neck to move without moving the body much.pic attached is exaggerated with a big lean to the right.... cheers and thanks!mark

Not sure why but I've gotten almost every error code there is for this program. Any idea what this one is?All I did was try to replace my puppets artwork (photoshop) with a resized image in a new photoshop file. Now I can't even open CH or do anything without this prompt coming up.

Hi, I am trying to find some Filmation type CH puppets. I'm doing a throwback type of animation 2d (think He-man/H=eavy Metal)  and all of the regular ones are a little too "updated" I know I might be able to take a rig and try to recreate the look on top, but I thought I'd check if anyone has already done so or specializes in custom puppets like that. thank you

I have wound up with this mess. All of a sudden I couldn't get my character to 'center' stage. She would only stay off to stage left. I have tried various means to move her along but nothing works. There was one little piece that showed up which was labeled 'origin'. I tried to get it to recenter the piece but that didn't work. The only way I could do it left this independant square liked to the work.The 'origin' piece is sitting up on her right shoulder now and seems to have very little influence over how centered she is.Could someone out there tell me how to fix this thing?

How do we send in a film done with Character Animator to be considered to be displayed on a Tips and Tricks episode?

Hi all !So im using Ch for a while now. Mostly what I do is draw characters on illustrator, then record on Ch, then moving to after effects for closeups and stuff.Now, I feel really limited in regards of what I can record on Ch. what do u recommend to do ? which software should I learn to fill some void that Ch is not dealing with ?ty !

I can ask all day..it really is annoying, when you trying to built up a character and something doesnt work (whats normal) but the only video you'll find is old an archived. Or I'm always falling back to the Hello-my-Name-is-Dave-Getting started-Video. I don't need Tips and Tricks (later),first I need (after getting started): How to turn the head, How to built an arm that's in front of the head, How to .. whatever.. (give me a day, I come up with new questions..). It would be really nice, if there where short videos about all these litte topics that really helped you getting started..Ok, here's my question: What do I have to do to turn my characters head with the camera (I've checked with Dr. Applesmith, all the settings the same).And by the way: Did you guys change left and right? In this video Building A Puppet From Scratch - ARCHIVED (Adobe Character Animator Tutorial) - YouTube  Dave said at 2:13 (..the CHARACTERS right or left..) but Dr. Applesmiths Right Quarter is HIS left

Hello again,I'm using the Version 1.5 (in german) and I can't finde the behavior ARM IK.And nothing similar to that. Even my stickfigure on the right doesn't have a shoulder, only neck, elbow and wrist...o.

Hi ! every time Im recording, after export I hear every thing my left speaker.is there a way to fix that ?

Hello,my character has just little circles as eyes. No eyebrows, no pupils, just two little circles. but he can look angry. I've seen that you can change things with the keyboard, in my case from little circles to diagonal elippses. But how? What is the correct term for the eyes? Can i change both eyes with one klick?Thank you

Hallo,CA ändert sich so schnell, dass es wahrscheinlich unmöglich ist ein Tutorial zu erstellen, welches von A nach B nach C geht.Ich sehe nur Templates, die ich ändern und benutzen kann. ich muss direkt reinspringen, habe aber grundsätzliche Fragen zurBildschirmgröße, wie groß lege ich einen Charakter an, wie ändere ich die Bühnengröße oder ist sie immer 1920x1080? Wo ist der Boden der Bühne?Und ja, ich spreche englisch, aber ich hätte lieber ein deutsches Forum, da kann ich mich besser ausdrücken.Gibt es ein deutsches A-B-C-Tutorial?Danke

Hello,I used this video to set up my character layers in adobe AI: Getting Started in Adobe Character Animator CC - YouTube  The mouth and head responds to movements, but the eyebrows and pupils don't move at all. I have everything tagged correctly and tried troubleshooting, but I can't figure out why they are unresponsive. I'll continue troubleshooting, but if someone could please help that would be great. I would also like the eye gaze to work with a mouse as well, but so far nothing is responding from webcam or mouse input.Here is the character: Dropbox - Character - Joshua.ai

Hi Everyone, I am new to Character Animator. Before I spend a lot of hours creating puppets, Im trying to decide if its better to create them in Photoshop or Illustrator. Illustrator seams to be the obvious choice since it's vector based, but all tutorials seam to favor photoshop puppets. Is there a reason puppets made in Photoshop will be better in the long run?

The following video shows my problem. when turning left and right there is a 1 second delay before snapping to the appropriate image set, but not when i turn back to the frontal view. everything works fine with default puppets and ive been playing in settings all day trying to figure out whats wrong. any help would be awesome!head turn delay - YouTube

I'm not sure if this is a Peremiere Pro problem or a Character Animator problem so I'm posting this in both forums. I've created a character in CH and imported it ito PP. The first time there was no audio when I first opened the file in the Source window. The animation was working. (I tried every which way to import and nothing changed. I also tried just placing the CH file in the timline. No sound) I went back to CH and saved as a new file. After importing to PP there was audio in the source file. So I could go through that and choose the cuts I wanted. When dragging the portions I wanted to the timeline, the audio dissapeared again. The animation works great but no sound. I don't know what else to do so here I am. Any help is greatly appreciated.(By the way, I'd done this successfully with a couple of previous animations. So that's why I'm not sure what I'm now doing wrong.)Thanks!Terry(I'm always using the latest version of everything on a MacOS Sierra.)

What do i do if i finished all the letters for my triggers?

Hi...I am trying to import my first character from photoshop into Character Animator but for some reason it won't let me. Right now I only have the head, right eye, right pupil, and right blink. Do I need to completely finish my character or do I need to save it differently in Photoshop or what? If anyone has the answer to this please let me know. Thanks

this has happened to multiple projects and it is SO frustrating because this is the error I get when I try to enable auto-sync with artwork.and so far the only way to fix it is completely reimporting the puppet...but there goes hours of rigging and trigger binds and cycle layers.Is there ANY way around this? Am I doing something wrong?

Hi, I want to find out how to use character animator with obs studio in windows. i initiate a chat a few times but wasn't connected to a representative.

Hello, i'm using the latest version of Adobe CH (2.0) on a windows 10. Every time i start a new project everything goes well until one time i open up my scene (or puppet) and it gives me an error that sais: "error parsing properties list from file". sometimes i reopen the project or do something like that and then it goes away for a few minutes but it always comes back.I want to know how to fix this problem. Thank you.