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samh19821728
samh19821728
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May 31, 2018 12:02 PM UTC
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Character animator CC 2018-Puppet

Hi,

I made my puppet on photoshop as an original, and I was trying to make it move, but it isn't do you have any ideas?

    alank99101739
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    Legend
    Jun 1, 2018 4:30 AM UTC


    Perfect, thank you. the layer hierarchy needs some more work. You typically want a single root layer called something like “+Frog”. Put body under that. Also put a layer called Head there and put the eyes and mouth on the head. The lack of Head layer is why the face movements is not working (Most likely).

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    KJerryK
    KJerryK
    Legend
    May 31, 2018 1:40 PM UTC

    Need more details -- the puppet details, how you rigged it, how you are trying to move it, etc

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    samh19821728
    samh19821728Author
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    May 31, 2018 11:45 PM UTC

    In terms of the puppet, I created it from scratch in photoshop, using simple shapes and tools such as the ellipse tool. i am trying to move it like any other automatic template puppet would move its face, such as the"Blank Face" puppet template. I have made them all on seperate layers. I have a body and a face layer, and a mouth, eye, and pupil layer also. (Seperate Layers) I also have a body layer.

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    alank99101739
    alank99101739
    Legend
    Jun 1, 2018 1:42 AM UTC

    Can you share a screen shot of the hiearchy in the rigging panel? Are you trying to use a dragger to move it, or head movements? For dragging, have you added Draggers in the “rig” mode? If trying to use head movements, did you call the head layer “Head” etc? CH will tag specially named layers with “tags” (visible in the puppet property panel). Things like head movements look for these tags to work out the structure of the puppet. Showing a screen shot of the hierarchy is the quickest way to have a look.

    This blog post https://extra-ordinary.tv/2018/04/21/debugging-character-animator-eyess/  is beyond what you probably need at the moment, but shows a sample screen shot and talks about layer names and tagging in amongst lots of other stuff you probably don’t need yet (!!).

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