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April 20, 2023
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Adobe Animate and Mixamo

  • April 20, 2023
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Hi! So I am the director, writer, etc. of an animated horror/thriller film. Our animator (who we had since Jan. of 2022 and who I found on Discord) has been MIA for the last 2 months and I think he silently quit. So, I am trying to animate the entire movie myself, create the characters, etc. Over the last month or so I have been learning some stuff in Blender, downloading royalty-free models, editing them, giving them clothes, etc. etc. I was planning on using Adobe Mixamo to get all the animations done (is that even possible for a movie? Sorry, I am new to everything animation honestly) and then to upload those animations to Adobe Animate, also upload the backgrounds/enlargements, edit the animations into there, then use the lipsyncing thing in Animate (not sure exactly what it's called) to add lipsyncing to the characters for the audio recordings with all of the lines, Sound FX, etc. First of all, is this possible and second (which I guess is intertwined with "is it possible?", when you do the lipsyncing thing in Animate, does it has to be a still model or can it be a model with animation, like uploaded from Mixamo like I was planning on? Thank you so much!

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    kglad
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    April 20, 2023

    i've never used mixamo, but you can nest symbols in animate so after lipsyncing a mouth graphic, there's no problem adding that to an animated parent symbol.

    Participant
    April 20, 2023

    Thanks! This is a really stupid question but what does symbols/nest symbols mean? I am very new to all this stuff 

    kglad
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    April 20, 2023

    it means you can (and typically will) have a character symbol (with its own timeline) that contains other symbols (eg, a mouth).  

     

    the mouth will have its own timeline (where you lipsync to visemes).

     

    the character typically will be moved to a parent timeline with a background and where the character can be animated to move across the stage (or the background is animated making it appear as if the character is moving).