Elbows are Bending Incorrectly for 2-Frame Take

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July 11, 2026
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For some reason everything is perfect and working as it should except for when I try to fix problems with the 2-frame Take which simply bends the elbows perfectly reversed in this case. I am using: https://okaysamurai.com/puppets/2023/Sticky.puppet as my puppet. Thanks for any help in advance! If you know a solution, please do tell and be verbose as I am rather new to Character Animator, thanks again!

2026-07-11 03-07-14.mp4

Correct answer ace

TL;DR: Most likely problem is the actual puppet rather than the software.

That is quite interesting as for me it doesn’t work even after using “Reverse Arm Bend Left/Right” and the two-frame take works only in the beginning and not towards the end which makes everything more weird. Other puppets are not acting up so therefore the problem is most likely not Character Animator but the actual puppet acting up. Thanks for all the help and quick responses GC!

TheOriginalGC

Community Expert

I initially encountered what looks like the same problems you have been having, especially with the elbows going the wrong way when I triggered a replay. However, after changing the Limb IK settings from default to Reverse Arm Bend, the replays appear to work as they are supposed to. Admittedly, I’ve never used this puppet before, so there’s a good chance that something else is happening in the background.

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Inspiring

TL;DR: Most likely problem is the actual puppet rather than the software.

That is quite interesting as for me it doesn’t work even after using “Reverse Arm Bend Left/Right” and the two-frame take works only in the beginning and not towards the end which makes everything more weird. Other puppets are not acting up so therefore the problem is most likely not Character Animator but the actual puppet acting up. Thanks for all the help and quick responses GC!

TheOriginalGC

Community Expert

Based on your description, you might want to check the keyframes you are making in your timeline after you record the 2-frame take. If it’s working at the beginning, but not the end, make sure that there aren’t any new settings that might be overwriting what you’ve done with the puppet.

I know it’s frustrating. If I knew what was causing the puppet to behave that way, I would re-rig it for you.

TheOriginalGC

Community Expert

In the properties panel to the right of the scene, there should be a setting for Limb IK (if it is not there, you should add that behavior to the root layer of your puppet in the rigging). In Limb IK, you can disable “Auto Arm Bend” and reverse the bend for the Left and/or Right arm by checking the appropriate boxes. Let us know if that works.

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aceAuthor

Inspiring

I was about to reply with: “It did not work, I even tried to only reverse it for one of the arms and it didn’t reverse it. Might be my characters problem.” which is when I realised that it probably is the characters problem, so I went to test out other characters and those characters worked perfectly.

The problem is not Character Animator but probably the rigging of the character BUT and a very big one, that character is not rigged by me it is actually the one from https://pages.adobe.com/character/en/puppets called “Sticky”, so please repeat the steps I took(check the video attached to the main post) and see for yourself if you are getting the same problem or not.

TheOriginalGC

Community Expert

The Sticky puppet is no longer available to download on either the Adobe or the OkaySamurai pages. Possibly, because it is no longer compatible with the current version of Character Animator - (I’m just guessing, because I am not in any way included on such loops). The link to the puppet is from 3 years ago. When I have the chance, I will attempt to download it and see if I can figure out why it is no longer behaving.

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