Character Animator

Hello All ! Since i have not found a marketplace for CH yet , i will show you a workflow here . I want to share it cuz it saves a lot of time when it comes to creating puppets to be actors, stand-ins or extra's in your CH scenes. I call it #Character CookerIt takes 6 easy to follow steps and is based on smart objects in CC.I did my best to make it as perfect as possible. It's nothing secret, with a little patience you can completely build it yourself.but if you would want to skip that part, then follow the YouTubes and find the link to the ZIPfile on Turbosquid. watch it here : CharacterCookerPromo - YouTube

Hi All,     I have a Puppet that shows a Slight deformation to the Stomach/ Torso and Neck during a Walk Cycle.     Both seem to get elongated vertically. The Stomach shows a point along its lower edge. The neck appears to elongate and bounce, leaving the Head steady.      I've included a Reference Image of the Scene below, followed by several Screengrabs of different layers in the Puppet. Finally, I've attached a video of the Puppet Walking.     Thanks in advance for your suggestions.Regards,Rajnesh       

Hi All,     I'm having an issue with a Puppet's Shoulder's Getting Detached. In the first Image below, the Initial (Stationary) position of the Puppet is shown - it's the Puppet in the Middle.    Below that, I've included several Screenshots of the Puppet Layers and their Mesh/ Taggings.    Finally, you can see a Video of its Walk Cycle in the attachement.    Any thoughts on how to fix this?    Thanks in advance.Regards,Rajnesh        

Question: I made a puppet with Puppet maker and I made a sample video to send off to my team. They asked if I could change the face shape. Can I bring a puppet back to Puppet Maker to make edits? or do I need to start over?

Is it possible to do this, Right now it only blends the trigger at 0.2secs. I used it on a camera triggerable shot. I want to have a slower blend.

Is there any way to have alternate keys controlling walk behavior instead of the regular left and right keys? I want to use midi controls to control my character's walk behavior

HI, I'm seeing a glitch when adding an animation from the Motion Library to my timeline, so when the playhead goes from my captured animation to the motion library animation the character jerks uncontrolably. This is with easeing on the animation for a smooth transition. When I add another animation from the library the transition from one library animation to the next is smooth. This only occurs when going from captured to library animation.Any ideas of a workaround?

Hello , I have selected a transparent background in character animator. (transparent selected.jpg attached).But on importing video inside Pr it shows dark black background .(steps recorded no transparent background .mp4 attached)What can be the possible mistake I'm doing here , please highlight.Thanks,Pranita

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Opening and closing my project caused my mouth layers to lose their behaivors, and when in record mode when I say L it won't show up. neither will my M, S, Ah, AA how do I fix these problems?

Hey Folks,I am experimenting with Character Animator over the past weeks and ran into an issue, I neither could solve so far, nor find any solution on the web.I created a character based on "Alex Blank" and made him a 3-view character.The character is supposed to run in ine scene, what I tried to manage via the walk behaviour.Everything seems to be set up and rigged correctly, but my character still keeps on haveing ne essential problem:His left shoulder seems to pull the body in the running direction as if he tried to lean forward, but the head pulls back the neck to the original position.This leads into weird deformation of chest, neck and partially the head.Does anyone have an idea, of what I could check?I´de be thankfull for any idea.ThanksBestAlex

Not sure if it's a bug bug it's driving me crazy because i'm having to do a lot of guess work. Is there a way to make sure it shows what is actually happening at any given position without having to play and try to remember? Scrubbing the timeline works as well but as soon as i stop it resets. Thanks

Hello!  I just discovered the Motion Library and watched Okay Samuri's video on it. I was looking to play with it on some of the pre-built characters. however, it seems like some work for this and some don't despite being built the same.  I see that they need Behaviors: Bosy and Limb IK I also know that they need the rigging and they all seem to, but most just seem to stand there when choosing from the motion library. Any advice or insight?

Hi As per the title,  Been trying for hours. I even modified my artwork to make it simpler thinking that would fix it but it's just as bad as before... I've uploaded the puppet here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ihKn9_lDM5DuXcGlYNd5IcweC083AzyR/view?usp=sharing Thanks

I would like to use body tracking for arm movement, because it seems to look more real than dragging arms with a mouse. Mouse arm movements must be done one-at-a-time, and when you do, you cannot see what you recorded for the other arm for position and timing.However, after I click Calibrate while I am standing in the "A" position, from that point on the puppet will NEVER put its arms straight down to the side. This happens for ALL puppets I select from options in Puppet Maker. After I click Calibrate, from that time on the "arms-at-rest" position makes the puppet's arms look like a horseshoe.Does anyone have an idea how I can get the resting position of the arms straight down?Thank you in advance!

Hello,I just downloaded the starter package and I try to use the software but when I click on a puppet I get the libgit2 error.I searched in the communities and none of the proposed solutions work for me.I admit that this is not the best first-time impression I would expect in the first trial.Any help?Steps to reproduce:    1. click a puppet and get the error... Same roblem when I import a puppet System info    Application: Character Animator v23.1.0.79    OS: Windows v10.0.19045, RAM: 15.86 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 8

I've run out of ideas to fix my puppets arms. The arms won't move. I put sticks in. I put a draggable handle and the arms just pull the body and distort it. I used a template puppet to build this puppet. Thanks. I appreciate the help.

Hey thereI would like to make my own Dinosour Puppet and i have noticed that the stock puppets dont have this type of character available. therefore I would like to know I could install a photo (perhaps from photoshop) and able to break features of a dinosour down in order to make it move (legs, eyes, arms Mouth etc) within adobe Character Animation. I would LOVE any guidance to making anything like this possible please. Thank you for your time.

Greetings all,     I'm just getting my feet wet with CA. I created a Flying Duck with two Wing Positions (Up and Down) and imported it as a Puppet into CA. Each wing undergoes a Color Change because we see either the Top or Bottom side of a wing as it transitions. Please see the Screenshots below.     I have two Questions: What is the best way to Rig it, for Flying? I tagged the Wings as Arms. How to Animate it?     Thanks in advance.Regards,Rajnesh  

HiI don't know whether I have inadvertently clicked on some button but the timeline is not visible with the puppet on the record screen. The timeline can only be seen when I click either on Timeline Scene or on Window>Timeline and produces the puppetless screen shot 2. This means that without both things being on the screen simultaneously I cannot gauge how much time is elapsing or at which stage further recordings need to be added. If someone can shed light on this I would be very grateful.

If not what is the cheapest way? Thanks in advance.