Character Animator

Can I Purchase motions to add to Motion library? If so where?

Hi, I've got a character where i've set up face parallax following this video - The Head and the Left Ear have their own head behaviours applied.All of it works just how I want, but my character has a beard I want to move along with the mouth parallax, but I also want it to be masked to the face so when my character turns, more or less of the beard is revealed. I've tried...Grouping the beard and applying the mouth tag. It seems like Ch recognises only one instance of the mouth tag, whichever comes first in the layer hiearchy, which I need for the actual mouth. Putting the beard group inside the mouth group like this+Mouth  >Beard group  >Neutral  >Surprised (then all the other mouth shapes etc etc)This doesnt work because i think Ch assumes the beard is another mouth shape that it should switch between for the lip sync so it doesn't appear by default. Then I tried this:+Mouth   >Beard group   >Mouth      

My puppet has a head hierarchy that's pretty standard:  PuppetName - Head -  Frontal - then face elements (Glasses, Left Eye, Right Eye, etc).   Here's the  problem: I would love to put both eyes inside the Glasses layer, but I am unable to put them within that layer because Illustrator won't let me keep adding sub-layers apparently. I think I need all the hierarchy layers I currently have, so, what's the best way to overcome this limitation?Thanks for any help you can offer!

My Characters have very short stubby legs and arms, and it seems to me that the default walk behavior just moves too many things around to really work with my animals. So, I'm looking for the best way to create a few keyframes where I basically just move my legs around in a simple circle. I'm basically trying to figure out how to create a little keyframe animation for the legs that cycles. I've seen thumbnails of tutorials to build a hand-wave, but I'm wondering if I can have a limb animation loop, etc. Hopefully this is clear.There are proibably more than 50 tutorials that all demonstrate the pre-made walk behavior, but I don't think I've seen one that builds a walk-cycle from scratch, so maybe that doesn't exist. But if that is a thing, I'm super interested.

When I click on the play button nothing happens.  I have refreshed the scene. I have exited and re-entered.  I have a 2-minute scene that was playing fine and suddenly it will not play at all.  Any ideas on why it will no longer play? Thanks.

I'm having an issue with exporting scenes in Character Animator. The screen will shift to the left and roll over on the right. I have tried to reinstall the program. Install the latest graphic driver for my Ninvida GPU. Attached is a picture of whats happening. I'm not getting any errors. Not sure what's going on. It has always worked just fine.

I've been working with this character for days and shot many scenes with it.  After removing independence from an object (hair), it got hung up and started not responding.  After roughly 10 minutes of waiting, I restarted Character Animator and my computer as well.  The scene opened back up ok the first time, then hung up after switching to rig mode.  I restarted again and troubleshooting led me to clearing the cache (Alt and Refresh Button) which caused it to be permanently hanging up in the scene as well.  I restared and opened an older character with no issues, but the important character I'm currently working on now crashes Character Animator.Please help.

When I try to export a scene through Character Animator, I'm told to install Media Encoder.  But I already have it installed.  I'm on Windows 10 using Character Animator 22.5 and Media Encoder 23.5.  I have ME open but Character Animator does not recognize it.

I am trying to edit the movements of a character after lip-synching the character to an audio file.  I would like to be able to practice adding movements and gestures BEFORE I actually start recording them.  However, the newly added gestures and actions only appear  when I'm in record mode.  This means that I have to record all my practice attempts, which I do not want to do.   How can I play through my scene and try out different gestures for a character WITHOUT recording those gestures?

  Hello, I'm getting this error when I try go to File > Export > Puppet. Any ideas? and how can I avoid this in the future?Thanks! 

In character animator, everything is set to 1920x1080 for the scene, when I transfert through Media Encoder, the background image appears to be cut off and repeated towards the right. The left side of the frame has been cut off and moved to the right side of the frame. Artwork is all centered in Ch at 1920 x 1080 as you can see. Here is Media Encoder version and settings and what the Mp4 ends up looking like (note the background line to the right): Here's the source from CH:Can anyone help me with this issue?Thanks,Bill. 

I am trying to use the nutcracker jaw feature and need a detailed puppet to help me solve a possible rigging problem. Where is the Nutcracker Annie.psd puppet that is referenced in the literature? What I have found otherwise is limited and does not help. Thanking anyone in advance. My problem is that even though it is an independent layer, my +Jaw also moves both the  Head and  Body (while also seeming to move itself appropriately in relation to the Head.  I'm sure I am doing something profoundly dumb but I can't find a good example to work with.  I found the gorilla example but it does not help me.  I am making  an actual nutcracker character and I do not want the face to move or distort (like a real nut cracker wouldn't do). I have gone through every permutation of independence of Head, Body, and Jaw layers I can think of.   My drawing app is Illustrator but I can speak Photoshop.  I need Nutcracker Annie!  hahaha

I made a charakter from 3 different angles in a swapset. The front perspektiv can use motion libary on it, the side and the backsite is not able to move with motion libary. Is it even possible? If i switch, the motion can not come with it. (The Behaviors are not just on the front site, but on the main layer which all other layers are in.)

Hi everyone, i am trying to edit the movement of the hands, but is there any other way to move various postures of hands?I've tried the Trigger option, but it does not work as I intended to do. The goal of the work is that I show sign languages as a animated videos. Are there any tipps to do? Or is this not possible with this program?   

Hello, I'm trying to make my own character for the first time, I don't understand why the body icon isn't present in the "camera and microphone" area. I want to clarify that in my character the structure of the body is already present with the correct subdivision of the elements.Thanks in advance

Whenever I make a character blink/copletaly close it's eyes, the base skincolor disappears. This has happned with two different characters. For the one I am working on now; the skincolor-layer disappears, but the hair-layers underneath is vissible. The same happened to another character, but that character did not have any layer underneath the skincolor, so the background was vissible instead.Any advice on how to make this not happen? 

I cannot make a new project. Why is that?

Good Day to whoever see this,I have made 4-5 puppets for character animator and I am running into a reoccuring issues with the limbs of my character. Typically, one of the arms is not as flexible or moves in tandeum with my own. Recently, I found that using a puppet with an arm bent by defualt is close to being perfect, but has issues with one arm. Reworking the puppet to have a default A-pose and one arm doesnt move properly. I have a video to demonstrate my rigs and the issue, I blurred myself out of privacy. If anyone is willing to provide feedback or advice, it would greatly be appreciated!

Why am I being restricted to exporting only a small portion of the scene I am creating using Character Animator? 

I have a character who has very long hair, he is sitting on the floor and the bottom of those hair is rolling on the floor. I wish the hair had danglers, but the hair on the floor should not follow the head, only places that do not touch the floor. I tried everything I know and what my imagination can find, I also looked in the forum, I found nothing that could help me. I tried Magnet, Leader/Follower, Handle fix so that the hair on the floor remains fixed... But I can’t figure out how.Can someone please help? Isabelle

After making a video and pressing the record button, after counting 3 2 1, "There are no input channels available for the selected audio device. Do you want to open the Audio Hardware Preferences dialog?" message pops up. What does this mean? What do you mean by input channel? what should i do

So I downloaded a sample of mouth drawings to use on a puppet test, and it comes with a neutral drawing of a mouth. Now, what if I want to create a trigger to go from the neutral to a smile, or a sad, or whatever mouth I want to show just for a short amounth of time base on a trigger? I created a layer below the set of mouth drawings and added a trigger to the added layer, but it only shows on top of the rest of mouth drawings.    How can I do the actual swap to replace the neutral mouth drawings for the added layer when I hit the trigger?