Character Animator

I created, in Illustrator, a new mouth group based on Adobe's Character Animator templatemouth download but I'm unable to drag it into my puppet's Illustrator file as shown in the Building Your Own Animated Face video I'm following. In the video the new mouth group is dragged from one Photoshop file's layers to layers in another Photoshop file, a new puppet file. It's at the 16:36 point.  Building Your Own Animated Face (Adobe Character Animator Tutorial) - YouTube  This method is not working for me. What is the best way to add my new mouth group? Alternative to the video's method would be great...or just help understanding the how-to. Thank you.Evan

Is there a way in CA to record a limb movement as a key-triggered behavior, ie a character throws their arms up on a key command? Seems like I could make multiple body layers in the necessary positions from PhotoShop and use Cycle Layers in CA, but I'm not sure how that would affect body warp from head movement, which I would like to retain. Can this be done with Dragger?

If I turn off the camera in Character Animator and leave it off for a number of hours and come back to the application and attempt to turn it back on I get the processing wheel for 3 minutes and then the message "Camera Busy" in yellow text...This only happens when I turn the camera input icon to off, wait a number of hours and then click the camera input icon to on... The only way to fix this issue is to reboot the machine... Rebooting the app does not fix the issue...I can provide logs if required...Thanks,Sean.

I have characters that get some more life with custom animations (layer cycles that can be found in different folders of the psd) that are triggered with keys.So far so good.Now, when I tried to record the face and features through the webcam, I got bad distortions.I went to check: all "crown" (warp independent) items are set to contour, but the contours that are actually used for the mesh result from the combination of all images (even those in the layer cycles) as the example below shows. And that creates the problems.How do I solve this? How do I get the mesh to reflect the actual contours on the screen (at the very moment and not including all the contours if a certain animation is triggered)?

when i using any program to go live stream  ! like obs studio i can capture the program  but the puppet doesn't appear !! as you see there is a puppet but obs studio can't capture that ! what is the problem & thanks

Hi,in the Dec '16 tutorial there was a neat way to use a scene camera with the help of keyboard triggers.Tried it and it an in principle works great for switching between dialogue cam angles (quick example below). Now the example in the tutorial is a red monster live stream. I see how that can work for simple things but what about more complicated scenes. Where would I activate, trigger and record different puppets as in my case?Am I missing something or am I simply pointing to the current limitation of the scene camera workflow (which really is "just" a hack for allowing single puppet live shows within these limitations).If the solution of the dec 16 tutorial should not work for me, is there a date yet for a release containing a proper scene cam feature (I remember reading that this was on the table, right?)?Is my only option currently compositing the scenes in AE? (a bit more painful when you work on fifteen 30 min episodes)

I am seekingan enthusiastic and talented up and coming character animator to collaborate ona project. I am a stand-up comedian who wishes to produce one or possibly aseries of animation shorts.   Basically an online virtual stand-up comedian.Please emailromi1813@gmail.com to express yourinterest, and be sure to attach examples of your work. I look forward tohearing from you.

Is there a way to assign a Key Trigger to a Marker?  I would like to jump from different parts of the timeline using Markers by Key Triggers for live stream.

Hi all!When I export a scene, the PNG sequence seems to get cut off.... has anyone else experienced this?

Hello,For instance: I want to animate a frame-by-frame walk cycle (as the current behavior one isn't quite optimized for views other than the sideview) along Dangle, Eyegaze and other behaviors. Kind of a loop animation on the legs, while I supposedly can drag an arm, do keyboard triggers, and lipsync. Is it possible already ?Cheerio.

When I output my Character Animator scene as a png with wav, the png cycle included in the puppet stops after one cycle. How do I make it loop endlessly?

I'm brand spanking new to CH. I just completed the Building Your Own Animated Face, and decided to repeat this from scratch without the template. My puppet has a round face which warfs. I've only added the eyes.The file+Character       Head          Left eye               +Left pupil               Left eyeball          Right eye               +Right pupil               Right eyeball          Face BackgroundIdeas?

Hello! I'm rigging my first character ever, and I'm having lots of fun, but I've hit a bump in the road.....instead of the mouth opening, the head gets bigger! It seems to be a 'handles' problem? How are handles deleted? xxoo

when i open adobe character animator i can press "W" and the eyebrows looks worried,but when i open any other window like browser or a game the character still move to my face actions but i can not use the "W" or any other behavior

I've got a character set up, based on the Maddy puppet. The layer structure is pretty much the same (Character > Frontal / Right profile / Left profile . It's working great (Thank you very much for providing this example puppet)! Next I'd love to be able to make the character fly. I've created an additional folder above Frontal called Jetpack, which is triggered on a keyboard command, hiding the other layer folders in the stack. This has a draggable handle applied to it. Again it's working fine... I'm able to walk back and forth, hit "J" for Jetpack and move around. However once I drag my character and move it to a new position, it distorts the walk cycle and my character stretches in strange ways, which is fun but unintended. Wondering if there may be any sort of work around for this situation, or if it's I need to make a choice between having a draggable character, or one that is able to walk? Any thoughts?

Is is possible change a character's position on a scene when live streaming? I'd like to create a live stream where a character rides a skateboard onto the scene and then starts interacting with viewers. How would I do this? Thanks!

Does anyone have any other tricks for this besides the one noted by Okay Samurai in the July 2017 Character Animator Tips & Tricks video???How are you supposed to handle 2 arms with that example? I tried creating an animated arm frame cycle in front of the head, but I can't figure out how to hide the draggable arm when I trigger the sequence! Please help!

Many times Ch crashed while I tried to manually adjust visemes after "compute scene audio from lip-sync".You can see the error code in German below. It says something about the error coming from "reading after the end of the file". (This is a literal translation I don't understand a word of this, sorry…Play speed was set to either 1.0 or 0.75 when this happened. Hope this helps.

Character animator doesn't launch from creative cloud or Windows 10 menu.  Nothing happens at all.  No error messages.  Just nothing.I've uninstalled and reinstalled three times.  Logged out of CC and back in.  Closed down other applications.  What could be going wrong?CheersPhil

Hello!The autodetection of the head spin is detected by the program after adding the lateral layers of the head ?, or do you have to do some automation ?, I find it difficult to understand the layer structure of Wendigo. Is there any tutorial where side views are created ?. Thank you!

i saw your tutorial about Building Your Own Animated Faceand you just added that black t-shirt to "Body"and when i did that i did not work and i do not know why?

Hey guys. Do you have any idea why Adobe Character Animator sometimes records movement and lip sync etc and why sometimes it doesn't? Sometimes I have it with eye gaze, face, keyboard triggers and lip sync on but dragger off and I record it and I can see it moving while I record (it moves with me the whole time) but then after recording it is clear it only recorded the audio and nothing else and I then have to go "compute lip sync from scene audio" but that means I have to go in and spend time moving my eyes around etc and it is hard to know if it is natural as it isn't the expressions I just naturally did while recording. Other times I do it with the same settings and it records perfectly and I can't see what I am doing differently.Does anyone know why it would be doing this and how to fix it so that it always records when I tell it to, rather than only recroding the audio?Thank you for your help

Could anyone,  anywhere tell me what the following means:  1.  Create multilayered artwork for your character    In Photoshop, open freda.psd and take a look at the Layers panel.  Each component of the character artwork is place on a separate layer.  If you name the layers to indicate which body part they correspond to (chest, head, eyes, mouth), you can immediately control the character in Adobe Character Animator   What does the underlined sentence mean  ? ?????I opened freda.psd in Photoshop.  The layers already are named.  What is the person who prepared this Adobe page talking about ??It continues with:  Note:  If you'd like to use your own artwork, draw or copy the art into the corresponding layers of freda.psd file and save.  OK, I give up!  What does this mean?  Does it mean open a puppet you may draw, select say the eye from that , replace the corresponding freda layer with your eye ball

I've been working on a project in Character Animator for a few weeks now with no problems, but this latest update doesn't register my webcam anymore. I've updated every driver I possibly can. The microphone is registered in the app, but no video. If I try to switch to next camera, it says only one camera is connected, which is true. If I open skype, the camera works fine. No other app is running in the background when I open Character Animator that would be using the video feed, either.I also updated my GPU driver in the same time frame, so it's possible something happened there as well. I have a LifeCam HD-3000Specs:Windows 10 Pro - 64-biti5-3550 CPU16 GB RAMNVIDIA 1070 GPU

I added 2 dangle handles to my hedgehogs skirt.... she came out like this...SO FUNNY!I removed the 2 dangle handles.... and back to normal!Thought I would let you know. I have had some issues with the hedgehog before and it was all about mesh.