Character Animator

No problem!I am now noticing a couple issues, I figure might be worth mentioning… Sometimes, when I try to press the space bar or play button to play back my timeline- it doesn’t play. The camera where I can see myself gets paused as it normally would, but nothing else happens. I’ve tried clicking the refresh button with no luck, and find the only temporary solution is to restart the program and project.I also sometimes lose sound while trying to scrub through or play back my timeline. Clicking the refresh button helps, but is there a reason for this? To piggy back off of this- Some headphones also don’t respond? (They work in other programs and iTunes, so I know they are working headphones)Thanks again for all of your help!! Very much appreciated! Best,Margarita RinconSenior IT Communications AssociateUniversity of Rochester  |  Office of the VP for IT/CIO[personal information removed by moderator]Click the icon to watch the latest episodes!<http://tech.rochester.edu/rest

Hi, i would like to know how to drag a puppet from one side of the screen to the other without having to drag it manually.ive tried playing around with the transform behavior  but without success.Not sure if this is something really simple to achieve.Any help would be awesome!cheers

I'm really enjoying this so far, but if i wanted to utilize the character facial animation as a sort of mask on the footage of my own body... is that possible? i've been searching the forums to no avail.

Windows 10.  Adobe CA 2017Rigging my character in Adobe Character Animation.  Very new to program.  Trying a walk cycle with a created character. Body. Two arms. Two legs.  Very simple.  While watching tutorial - I want to tag the left leg (rear leg) with the handle symbol and when I go into isolation mode so I can get to it - it still asks me to 'select a group' and I am unable to place the handle tag.  I have the plus signs correctly placed at the beginning of each body part layer I want to move.  (I tried both the left leg with the Crown Symbol, and the Left Leg below in the layers panel.)  Left arm works fine and is able to be tagged, but the left leg won't.(ALSO) When I do see the walk cycle... in the STREAM panel to check it - my character is much to large (its very high res) to fit within the confines of the screen given.  How can I resize character to fit?If I could attach the actual CA file, I will - but I don't see where I can...Ma

Working with multiple body positions, all with their corresponding arms, atm having dragged them with "hold in place after move", they will jump to the rest position or the previously set position in the different body turn position. It would be great, if the handles behave like their corresponding counterparts of the other views. As they can already be tagged as e.g. left and right wrist and CH has the position data, it shouldn't be that difficult to pass the data from one to the other.I am afraid, I can move this to the wish list..?Or did I miss some trick somewhere?...the arms can't be just one set, in a special layer, separated from the various body views as they have to switch from front to the back and vice versa of course…Thanks!

I have a limb that I want to Warp Independently, but the check mark is greyed out for it. In Illustrator I took the paths apart and regrouped the layer but it still doesn't show up a group. Is there some other way to make an independent group so I can staple the limb onto the body?

This video lesson has a file with the kids, saying it can be downloaded from the link provided. And there is no file there. Can anyone help me get to this file.What's New In Adobe Character Animator CC Beta (November 2016) - YouTube

Hi,Is it possible to export a looping walk cycle from Character Animator? I am exporting using the PNG export option, which exports the entire scene, but I would like to export only the frames that make up a complete walk cycle for my character.Thanks!

I searched the forum, but if I missed the answer, please post it so I can follow that thread.I created my puppet on desktop and want to move it to the laptop for demonstrating it for clients. When I open it, I have to once again place pins, sticks, drags, etc. on the file. Is it possible to keep that data? I can keep the rigging area open on laptop, but I would rather not have to keep doing the work over and over.Thanks again.

I made a character in illustrator and used the 3d rotate effect to create a simple head turn as the left and right quarter. When I import the character into character animator it is just like the frontal view. I switched off the frontal view layer and the left/right quarter views are the same as the frontal one. Is there something I need to apply in illustrator for it to keep its shape or is it an issue with Character Animator.

I'm working on walk cycles for my puppet (a left and a right cycle) and discovered that one cycle worked while the other did not. After doing a little evaluation I discovered that if I added a "dangle"... the puppet simply did not walk. Also, if I labeled my profile head as a profile (which was the only way I could get my eye to work), the puppet would only hop (not walk). Are there any work arounds for these issues?Thanks much!

I'm trying to build a more complex puppet and am wondering how complex should one get? My Photoshop file has so many layers and am worried it will be too difficult to puppet. Just how complex can the puppet be?

I am working on my second puppet and may have bitten off more than I can chew. I am attempting to create head turns but for some reason only the top-most head's eyes work. The mouths work on all the views. Am I missing something? I've checked several times and they are all tagged and labeled correctly. Please help.

Ok so I have an airplane and it doesn't have eyes, rather the wipers offer a blink feature only.  I can't get the cycle layers to occur on both wipers at the same time.  I get one wiper going and then nothing happens with the other one.  I've tried to check and uncheck the hide others box. And I've watched OK Samurai's cycle layers episode about a 100 times; he will likely cover his mortgage this month on my views alone in Adsense revenue. You're welcome lol.  Help a girl out please A link to my unlisted screen capture: (For my Adobe Fam only )simultaneous cycle layers question - YouTube

Voglio realizzare un piccolo video che insegna esercizi di yoga per i bambini ma, se porto in alto le braccia e le mani del mio puppet...scompaiono dietro la testa (perche sono su un livello inferiore)come posso portarle in primo piano, in modo che l′ordine dei livelli sia leggibile da Character Animator?

IS it possible to control 2 arms at once with the Wacom MobileStudio Pro 16?It has multitouch but I am not 100% sure if it is the right kind.Just seeing if i should buy one for my workflow Thanks!

Hi,I love the power of character animator for speech, basic facial expressions and the life that comes from minor shifts in posture. But since I like other movements to be more fancy-shmancy, I have actual animation sequences that I trigger with the keyboard.In this way I have a more natural nod, head shake, or the pulling up of a book. Now, since the nod or head shake are non verbal I can do a simple cycle layer effect. However it is more challenging to integrate the layer cycle of the example below (character pulling up a book). For the facial features need to appear in a new position (see the onion skin showing start and end position). Currently I have the body, and new face (mouth in the new position) triggered with the same keyboard command. However since the body and head change to the new position in the course of 12 frames, the facial features naturally appear immediately when triggered and not 12 frames later when the final position is reached. So for 12 frames the face is off

I wanted to make some interactive content with my Character Animator project but can't seem to figure out how to get this content into Muse.[Here is the list of all Adobe forums... https://forums.adobe.com/welcome][Moved from Comments forum to specific Program forum... Mod]

Preparing Scene mode always causes CH to become non-responsive ("not responding") for extended periods of time. I'm assuming this is because of rendering, but it doesn't seem that the software isnt maxing out on cpu or ram. Is this normal?

I made a new Prop and I think i know why my arm doesn't move right anymore. I'm pretty sure it's because the prop overlaps the joint a bit... See attached video for examples.Thanks!

HiA suggestion.  It's hard to hit the record button and then quickly get to either doing your camera  -- or especially any trigger or dragging the mouse when a specific action needs to be at the beginning of the track.Camtasia has a countdown before the recording starts.  It would be helpful for Character animator to have a similar short countdown.  3 seconds should do it.ThanksRowby

I started a project on my Windows PC and did the character in Photoshop after which I imported the psd into Character Animator. I could see the character properly then. I save all my files in my Creative Cloud Files folder. Then today I opened up my macbook and opened the creative cloud files folder and opened up the Character Animator project and what I see are those color bars instead of my actual image. As you can see above in the image attached the psd file ( thats linked into Character Animator ) shows the image correctly on the mac.Thanks!

Okay so I'm trying to edit the visemes for my lipsyncing. Since my Character is speaking Norwegian the auto detect isn't perfect.In this one instance i have a long Uh viseme but during that time the character is acutally  making three sounds, Uh then Ah then E.I Know i cant delete a viseme, but is it posible to split one so i can add the Ah and E at the right time?

Hi, I'm fairly new to character animate. I created a character in photoshop, and have been really careful with all the layers and groups created so Ch can support it. However, when I try placing the photoshop file with a character in it into a scene, this error keeps popping up. If i open up the photoshop file as a puppet it opens fine in Ch. Please do let me know whats going on!!

Hey guys. I'm trying to record a walk behavior and I really love it how it works. But one thing keeps me from animating:When I record my puppet running from the left side of the screen to the right side and play it back it looks okay. But when I play it back another time, the character will run further from the point he ended up the first time. He runs out of the screen. Dragging with the playhead will only make things worse.It all sounds very logic to me: Character Animator calculates when the right arrow key is pressed and when not, and then calculates the character running from the point where he is. When I play my performance and pause it half way, the character will still be running because the right arrow key is still calculated as pressed at the point where I stopped.Is there a way to fix this? Is this a problem that more people have?Chris