Character Animator

Can anyone suggest a good work flow or tutorial for adding animation to a video of real life objects? Specifically adding cartoon faces to things like apples, sock puppets or toys. Was thinking just animate the face in Character Animator and using somethignliek After Effects to track the object I am putting the face on.Any other ideas or suggestions? Thanks in advance!E

HiI'm wondering if it's possible to group triggers and swap sets in the Triggers panel? I have eight triggers per head position and five head positions, so forty triggers is starting to look a bit crowded. I'm sure I saw Dave from Okay Samurai group them in one of his videos, but I can't find it now. Thanks in advance!

Character Animator 1.5 (as I cannot upgrade until my laptop is Windows 10)In Photoshop, I've created a few round objects (balls).  Initially, I created them as separate layers and put a + in front of the layer name.I imported the Photoshop file.  When I applied the dynamic property to the balls, suddenly there were two of each.  Oddly, for 2 of the balls, both copies fell due to the dynamic gravity.  With the third ball, one copy fell while the other stayed in place floating.I went back to Photoshop and put each of the balls into separate folders.  I put the + on the folder name and removed it from the layer name.  This removed the dynamic property from the ball back in CA as expected.  Once I applied the dynamic property, the duplication happened again.  I even deleted one of the ball layers and created a new ball layer.  Duplication again.Next I tried deleting one of the ball layers, so the ball folder was empty.  I created a new ball

Is it possible to "speed up" or "slow down" an individual take?  Let's say I have recorded a take, using dragger handles on an arm.  I am happy with the movement, but I'd like it to be a bit faster (or slower) without having to go through a series of re-recording in order to get the speed of the movement just right.  Is this possible?  (I know I can record at a slow rate, then play back at a normal speed, but even this is a trial and error method of getting a movement to look like I want it.)

I think this app could be marketed for streamers as someone mentioned before (just make it easier to just use stream mode to stream in your videos) or as in a pack with After Effects and Animator. Or maybe with Photoshop and Ilustrator because you need them to import the puppets anyway.Also, I think a cool way to make the puppets profitable it's if the puppets can work outside the app. like if there's a cheaper companion app that runs the puppet that's marketed for streamers and media creators.

I have just added 2 eyes to my character, right one earlier and the left one a couple of hours later (had to pick up the kids).I can't to seem to figure out why the blue box is missing on the left eye. I can see the text floating in the background but theres nothing to grab and drag.I have checked that everything is labeled and tagged correctly. This happened earlier today with my right eye but somehow rectified itself.This puppet has taken me the longest so far to make because every time I add a new layer or adjust the drawing the whole thing goes to s**t. Thank goodness for backup although don't all work like when they were saved.

Hey guys , weird problem I faced few weeks ago till now , after I'd finished my animation project with character animator ( it's formed of 6 scenes  ) and I sent it to Media Encoder to render it , every time I render this project first 3 scenes get rendered well but from fourth one to the end don't get rendered , every time Media Encoder starts to freeze at that fourth scene to the end or if it rendered them it RENDER THEM WRONGLY  and when I watch them I can only see the first 3 scenes are well rendered but the other 3 gets mixed weirdly together and video goes black and when I checked my project in Character Animator to check it's from the project itself but video plays well and good and nothing's wrong but when I rendered always the last there scenes gets rendered wrongly and weird .Is this common problem ? or It's media Encoder because lots of people now suffering from AME . Can you explain to me guys ?Thank YouBTW my animation project is  4 minutes and 35 seconds an

I worked for a long time to create a character and got her to wave. I saved the file to my desktop and opened it later only for the puppet to be very glitchy and not even look like a puppet anymore. I have restarted the app, my computer, and adobe creative cloud but I can not get my puppet back.

Is there an easy way to take a preset character, like Chloe, which is about 800 X 1100, and enlarge it to a character I'm making that needs to be about 3200 X 4400.Once I enlarge and save Chloe the way that it is right now, it looks like it will mess up the whole character. Does anyone have any suggestions?Thanks!

Hello All!Unfortunately my Character Animator won't launch. I have uninstalled it and reinstalled with all of the updates, whether I run it as administrator or not it always freezes either at:Initializing  (Backend)or Skybox-random-blocks.prmAny suggestions on how to fix this? I am using a Windows 10, Intel Core i7, Nvidia Geforce GTX.Hopefully someone can help.All my Best,

I created a Polar Bear character in Character Animation and now am looking for a voice. I need a text to speech program that doesn't sound so robotic and that the voice sounds kind of cartoony. I'm unable to use Google Text-to-Speech because I'm a Mac person. I was wondering if there are any website/programs out there that generates a character voice over that I can download and import to Character Animator?

Hi! How can I make the text change color in CH (like in read aloud videos)One way may be cycle layer (but I cant really control the speed)I there a way to make a mask (with red text)  in AI and drag the mask over the black text in CH?May be a simple solution Any suggestions help

I'm trying to import a 25-minute scene into Premiere, however by the time the media has finished loading in, I've run out of memory and my display driver crashes. Is there anything I can do, aside from converting the scene into a sequence of PNGs / upgrading my PC? I would really like to be able to make changes to the scene through the dynamic link. If it helps, I have 32.0 GB of installed RAM. Please let me know if I need to clarify anything.Edit: I'm also unable to export via Media Encoder because it inexplicably stops encoding after 2 hours in (elapsed time stops, no change to remaining time, no message to indicate encoding has stopped).

Hi allI've recently gone from a humble student to employee for a new business and will be getting to know Character Animator.  It's very exciting and I have already produced a couple of scenes, but there are some bugs I've had to move around and based on my searches, generally involving either an occasional freeze or a crash, but the occasional ones don't bother me so much.I am running CA from my laptop, an MSI Apache Pro, 16gb of ram with a NVIDIA gtx 1060 (8gb dedicated ram) graphics card, so I don't think I have insufficient hardware for the job, but before I can know for sure I was hoping I could ask for some help.  However I believe in order to know for sure, some of you may ask to see my preferences, but I do not have access to the full list (please see the attached image for details).  I am currently using v2.0 of CA, I also ran as administrator with no success?Just FYI, I only have a basic understanding of system specifications, though I'm guessing that will have

My arms are quite working right and I'm not sure why. I have one arm that is stretching out and one arm is slightly detached by the shoulder (toward end of video). Not quite sure how to fix. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tKMLaTkRaq7Zq_vg-jC5rNorhtxaNttY

When I launch Character Animator, I get an error saying "Windows error The requested attribute was not found. returned from MFGetAttributeSize(mediaTypeP,Get(), MF_MT_FRAME_SIZE, &width, &height)I get the same error when I try and click the webcam button, no webcams show even though they are connected and work on other things like OBS, XSplit or Zoom. Any help would be great!

Hello,My character's arms don't swing during the walk cycle. I looked up a thread where someone else was having the same problem, but his problem was that he didn't have the neck, waist, and hips tagged.  I do, and the arms still don't swing.  See below.Also, for now reason I can figure out, my character's body is suddenly stretched out and only connects to the head at the chin.Also, also, the head doesn't move with the body.  It stays welded into place, like the arms.  Mind you, the torso and legs move as they should, but the arms and head don't move, and I have no idea why.Thank you.

So, I am very new to the illustration/animation world.... So, please bare with me.Someone started a puppet for me (in Photoshop), but wasn't able to complete it. They sent me the puppet to finish.... I am working on it, but seem to be having difficulty incorporating additional hand gestures (i.e. thumbs up, close fist, two fingers, etc.), as an additional layer.Could someone let me know what steps I need to take, to get this done?Please help.... Thanks in advance

Help please,When exporting from CH to AE the file has lost many png sequences, leaving my scene way shorter than recorded. I also have tried dynamic link with the same issue. Has anyone had this problem and solved it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello to this very young but ambitious Character Animator community    This new software is bringing new life into my creativity!!right now I am working on various characters for streaming and i had this interesting idea: i would Love to build an interactive environment for a character, with for example dynamic lighting, a rotating fan at the ceiling, various objects in a loop in the background resulting in the scene being more alive. Is this possible in Character animator? Would it also be possible to stream it on for example Twitch?thank you Guys for your ideas 

In my new puppet that I built from the ground up is showing up with 2 walk behaviours. One from the root menu (which works) and one from my character scene (which does nothing).I think this is causing my puppet to distort in the leg movements and the arm swing only swings in front of the body.The legs appear to be doing away from the scene and adjusting rigging in the leg does nothing below the knee.              This one is from my root properties                                      This one is when character is in a scene

Can anyone give me the link to download version 1.5 again? I uninstalled it but 2.0 isn't working for all my files.

Howdy, everyone! Many years ago, I made a post about missing/messed up textures when importing .obj files from Anim8or into Mixamo, and just last night, I FIGURED IT OUT!! It's a bit strange as to how it works, but bear with me.You'll need:-Your model exported as a .obj with the .mtl file that exports with it-Your texturesNote- You gotta mess around with the specularity of your textures, they can make it look like you have no textures, or that there is a slight shine that is your texture. Try 0.06 for a nice leather shine, 0.01 for a nice rough plasticy shine, 0.1 for hard shine and 1 for blasted lmaoOkay, so, step one:Zip the .obj and .mtl files into a folder. Name it your model's name.Step two:Highlight the textures, right click and press copy.Step three:Click into the zipped folder and paste your textures. (its weird, but that's how you've gotta hit this thing.)Step four:Open Mixamo, go to upload character, and drag your zipped folder into the part where it says, 'Select character f

Audio works on my external micI have a Mac Pro, 2 monitors, only 1 monitor, the LG, has a camera, the green light won't go on?  Works in Photo Booth....It has worked previously upon opening ChI can't click on or activate my camera?

Bonjour à tous, Encore novice avec character Animator j'ai fais il n'y a pas longtemps la mis à jour CC 2019. Et lorsque j'utilise mon personnage et que je veut le faire marcher c'est le drame .. Il y a un mouvement , mais c'est jambe et c'est bras ont l'air d'avoir complètement disparus .. Est-ce que quelqu'un saurais d'où ça vient ? Merci pour votre temps