Character Animator

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Hi! Anyone found out how to take an existing character that is rigged with emotions/behaviors and replays - and you want to cosmetically change colors and features. I have tried unsuccessfully - it seems as though these replays and behaviors and controls need to be set up each time. Is this true?

Is there a way to parallax horizontally only? I have my characters flat top hair that moves down and shifts out of place. I just want it to parallax horizontally so it stays lined up with the original hair line. Refer to the attached picture.  Any help is greatly appreciated. Feel free to send me a link to any videos that may help.   I appreciate your time.

How do I import a rig from adobe after effects into adobe charecter animator?

Hi.I used to use Adobe Characte Animator alot when it first came out and i had a lot of fun watching OkaySamurai on Youtube and learning from him. I used my face to create animated movements. I later started using Adobe After Effects for my character animation just because the head movements in Adobe Character Animator were not very suitable for my style of videos. Like using rotation keyframes for Head using Adobe After Effects looks really smooth and professional, where as tilting the characters head in Adobe Character Animator using face camera was always not very smooth and shaky, no matter what settings i used. I am curious if theres any update on Adobe Character animator where i can tilt my characters head using buttons, and not my face ? Thank you

Newbie - New rig - Blink works, and the left pupil follows the camera, but the right pupil does not!I've looked at the character, and I cannot see any attribute differences between the two eyes, other than obviously, left vs right symmetry.I've also compared this to some of the "Example Characters" and the only difference I see is for PUPIL RANGE both the eyeball AND range are blue, but this is the way the rig auto-imports from Photoshop. Again tho, the left eye works fine, but the right eye is stuck Any suggestions?

I have 3 triggers but my Binder Paper trigger is not showing up on my record timeline. Does anyone know why ??

I am on character animator and I can't seem to get my charcter to walk off the scene like she did before. How do I fix this?

Hello everyone !I am working with Alex puppet. When i do a positional walk to the right, once reaching the destination, he currently maintains the right profile for an additional second. I would like him to immediately return to frontal view once arriving. What setting needs to be adjusted for this ? Bonus question : How am I able to combine a positional walk, with a left/right arrow key walk into a single video ? Do I make seperate videos and combine them later in permiere pro ? Or am i somehow able to do it with different scenes? There's so much to learn and I'm still a beginner. Thanks for your answers!

i downloaded the template from tutorial and opened in photo shop .and in face background layer i make a circle as  he told in tut.and when i tried to save it  it showed this msg. if anybody knows the solution pl help me. 

Is DAZ 3D Studio compatible with Character Animator?If so, it would make my 3D animation project move along much quicker.

I am trying to animate a character running towards the camera using scale but it is slowing down as he gets bigger. I need just the opposite. He should start off slow and small then as he gets bigger, move faster. Any body had this issue?

Hello, How do you camera record without the mouth moving? meaning I do not want the mouth data

Hi, I am trying to use Character Animator to automate the mouth movement of my stop motion videos.  I figured out how I wanted to set up the mouthes and everything, but I can not seem to import my voice over audio file into the project.  Could you please tell me how to import an audio file into the animator for lip sync?  Is this posible or do you have to record within the app (which is very inconvenient).Thank you for your time,Justin nifong

I want to first say that I am far out giddy about this fantastic tool. It works!  So now, I've almost got my "self portrait" character almost looking and behaving like me, but the eye pupils a drifting a bit out of the "eyeball-socket", particularly when I roll my eyes a little far up. I've played a little with the "range" tool (the brackets around the eye tags), but there's little change - probably because I'm not using it correctly.  Any places I might look next to solve this?  Many thanks!

I've searched for a few days for the answer, but couldn't find it. My apologies if this is duplicate. I'd like to animate a custom drawing using motion capture. I'm unclear on how to prepare the custom artwork for mocap animation -- both facial and body animation. Do I have to break it down into pieces (e.g., eyes, eyebrows, arms, etc.)? Or, can I just use modern rigging to create a rig for the image (including the face), and then do motion capture?If you could break down what exactly needs to be done to prepare a custom drawn character for motion capture -- both facial and body -- I'd really appreciate it. 

Hi CH lovers, Could you please shed some light on how we can make the puppet:1. Sit in a fixed position in a side view2. Walk then sit in a fixed position3. Walk in a different direction, rather than from left to right and vice versa. Any tutorials are highly appreciated. Thank you so much,Tony.

I have added sticks to my puppet following @10959849 Samurai's instruction but it seems that doesn't work on my puppet. Please kindly have a look. Your help is really appreciated. The puppet file could be found here: Boy 1.puppet Thank you.

I'm hoping somebody can assist e. I'm trying to have my character standing with his hands folded (Like holding handshake 🤝) I'd love to hear what anybody has tried or what has been tried and true! Thank you in advance!

My puppet is done rigging, but when I switch to record mode it doesn´t appear. It showed up previously, but after adding behaviours it is gone. What can I do?

Here is my crash-logfile: Process: Character Animator.exe [12708]Path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Character Animator 2023\Support Files\Character Animator.exeProduct Version: 23.1.0.79File Version: 23.1.0.79Code Type: x64Parent Process: Adobe Desktop Service.exe [7204]Date/Time: 2023-05-11 12:15:59 Mitteleuropäische SommerzeitOS Version: 10.0.22621.1635Report ID: 1f14b932-9034-4f07-8f03-1da3d89bbe37 Time Awake Since Boot: 182 secondsCrashed thread: 16 [17688] THREAD_PRIORITY_NORMALException Code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATIONException Parameters: Access violation writing location 0x0000000010d40ff8Exception Message: 3221225477 Die Anweisung in 0x%p verwies auf Arbeitsspeicher bei 0x%p. Der Vorgang %s konnte im Arbeitsspeicher nicht durchgeführt werden.Application Specific Information:C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll Thread 0: [11664] THREAD_PRIORITY_NORMAL0 ntdll 0x00007ff9ff62f6f4 NtCreateFile + 201 KERNELBASE 0x00007ff9fc9d20da CreateDirectoryW + 4742 KERNELBASE 0x00007ff9

I am working on a character that have a head but do not have body I am showing the Layers here I have added walk behavour to it But It is not working properly how should I rig it ?

Greetings fellow animators. I've watched and enjoyed a lot of OK SAMURAI videos. Now I'm currently testing some workflows, and one of them involves me just exporting the puppet's mouth. I want to create a fully lip synced mouth on a puppet, but then turn off all but one of the face features and export just the mouth. That way I can place the lip synced mouth onto some footage in Adobe Premiere. It'd be cool to do this with the eyes too. I'd like to create eye movement like blinking, staring, darting pupils, etc. and then bring that into Premiere to lay over some footage. Everytime I turn off the head layer in rigging, the mouth disappears. is this possible? Who's got a workflow for me? Big thanks to Dave Werner for getting me this far 😃 Ryun

Hi, I am NEW to the community and Character Animator. I have the idea of what I want to use Character Animator for but have questions on what a good setup would invole interms of equipment,Such as mic, Camera, headphones and what else might i need. Any suggestions, thoughts or directions would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you  GregTNYC