Questions

How to make frame by frame animations that i can use cycle layers with and ?Where can i make these animations.Eg-Fire,Money falling etc like Okay Samurai(Dave) does in his videos

Request a new feature that would allow skeletal rigging to be designed from within Illustrator (or photoshop). Utilizing similar tagging like we do "+" to make a layer independent, we could allow a precursor label on a line segment within an art layer to be converted into a stick, the center of circles to become handles, pins, or the layer anchor point (again, dependent on the precursor used) and tagged as the appropriate body part based on the name. I've found myself spending a significant amount of time re-rigging my puppets (especially the body parts) each time I add a feature that requires reorganizing my character's layers (such as adding a walk behavior or cycle layers) - this would also allow for "copy and paste" of rigging between similar layers and speed up the work flow significantly. Thank you!

I had OBS studio, NDI, Character Animator and apowerMirror application, once I enable the Mercury transmit of the Character Animator the apowerMirror app becomes laggy or very slow motion. Did I missed some configuration somewhere? Any advise appreciated.Thanks ahead.

After effects renders Character Animator Dynamic Links VERY slowly! Am i missing something here with this workflow? 

I can't figure out why the top of my puppet's head won't move, only the bottom part does. Can anyone help? Here is a dropbox with the video of what it does as well as my layers in photoshop. Thanks!  https://www.dropbox.com/sh/e5vgoxqevsenynp/AABZB2T5dtleVkSnVUCnoczBa?dl=0

録画をした後、再生をしたところ、タイムラインは短いのですが、音声だけ再生速度がすごく遅く再生されます。何が原因でしょうか？教えていただきたいです。よろしくお願いいたします。

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I just came off an hour or more of hair pulling . . . being bald on top that was a feat. I thought I would be fancy and made the puppets pupils a blurred circle to give it a more natural look. When I imported the pupped to CH the eye behavior was greatly exagerated and moved out of the eyes and onto the face. I had used an "Eyeball" layer to constrain the pupil.What I did not realize, that while I could not see the blur extending beyond the eyeball proper, CH interpretid the entire extent of the blur as being the pupil.Thus, CH saw this huge eyeball (pupil) while I only saw the blurred center. Beware of the blurrrrrrrrrr.

I'm fairly new to Character Animator but I've been working on using hand-drawn sprites then building a puppet using those sprites for real-time animation.  I looked around but there weren't any discussions or tutorials that covered this and I wanted to know if anyone could point me in the right direction.  The key issues I'm running into are that when I scale up the pixelated sprites they don't keep pixelation (which I want), and lip-syncing by switching between sprites has been a pain because even though I built all of the mouth shapes I'm using JUST the mouth shapes as my whole animation and it doesn't appear to be properly switching between them.  I hope I explained that right.  Also, I'd like for idle animations and such to automatically go between several sprites but it just seems to draw them all on top of each other.  I tried to mimic the boiling animation structure that Characterizer uses to switch between frames but it simply doesn't do it.  Anywa

I built my puppet in Illustrator. I have been fooling around for days. I cannot get her eyes to open. I've run out of things to try.  Any ideas?

I am using a brand new MacBook Pro.I am running a fully updated version of CA.I am running Mojave that is completely up to date.I have changed the input source in CA's audio preferences to the MacBookPro's microphone, and back to the digital mixer that I have plugged in via USB and back again, and back again.I have made sure that the sample rate is 48000 and the buffer is 512.I have tried checking and unchecking "Attempt to force hardware to match document sample rate.I have attempted to create a new aggregate device in audio devices and run the audio through that.I can record audio from either source in other programs, the laptop is receiving audio.  I can playback audio from CA totally fine.But, when I've got this program up the green bar monitor reads "Audio Too Low" and it only records silence.I have uninstalled and reinstalled CA.  Nothing has fixed the issue.I had run CA fine before months ago and everything ran fine.  Then I upgraded the OS.Please tell me there is

Is there a way to set up different pupil ranges for certain eye states? For example, with a character that has a 'squint' expression with a smaller bounding box of motion - the pupils using the default pupil range in the 'squint' state will disappear behind the eyelids when looking up or down.  I've tried adding another layer with the more narrow 'pupil range for squint' and various combinations of swap sets and combined layer triggers and nothing seems to over-ride the default pupil range. The pupils still go too high or too low when squinting.  Much and many thanks for the help.

Hi,I can't seem to get my puppet to stay put.  I've followed along with the tutorials and looked on the forums, followed the steps and still haven't had success.  I believe I have everything in the right order, a crown only on my character's name and the fixed buttons attached to the body positioned over the feet, but still not success.  I have exported my puppet and here is the drop box info:Dropbox - MASONpuppet.puppetThanks so much for your help!

Hi everyone, Due to Covid we're in a tricky situation where we need to interview a bunch of scientists (approx 15 mins in total) for a web series - the problem is that the speakers are scattered across the US and we can't physically be in their homes to film them so the idea is to use CH to turn them into cartoon versions of themselves. Sounds straightforward (or so I thought). First of all, we won't be able to get each of the speakers to install (and learn) CH to record themselves so instead we're sending them a camera on which to record themselves. This means we'll end up with footage of them which we’ll have to track in AE and subsequently export that data to CH. However, since these speakers are not accustomed to speaking to camera there are likely to be issues such as the face being turned entirely to the side or hands in front of the face, which won’t sit well (I assume) with the AE tracker. Does anyone here know of a workaround for this? A virtual web cam perhaps

HelloI have a problem with Adobe Character Animate.I was making a character in Adobe Character Animate great and my camera and my microphone worked perfectly, and my record was good. Suddenly I saw the Audio Level Too Low doesn't record anything, and my lip-sync doesn't move in my character face.The icon for the camera and microphone is blue and I checked the control panel to make sure that they are working perfectly.I would be happy to help me.Thank you

I am using Character Animator  version 3.3.1.   for the first time. My webcam which I amusing as a camera appears when working in a project fine. If I try using Characterizer to create a character the camera never appears and I can't continue the process.I have clicked the camera tab and my webcam is checked but I see a waiting for camera and the Start Capture button is greyed out.

HelloI started use character animation since 2018. Character Animation version 1.5 (2018) was good , mean lip sync have worked good but after version 2.0 everything going bad for me because lip syncs starts jump give spaces on timeline.  Everything i tried but i couldn't  figue out it. Please help me. Documents  voice wav  and chracater animation files ->https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wa4u4L0dXMDRxLZm5ci69vYpCMzE9zWY

I did I followed this tutorial step by step. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ObBEXwiS_s But when I go hit play nothing shows up.I have already tried the same task in the 2019 release. When I assign the mouths behaviors and then click 'create scene' the errors "Layer tagged as Aa is not being used by any behaviors" keeps popping up.  Here is a video of the issuehttps://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/93322efd-b056-4e4f-74a6-dc66fc91a4c0 

Is there any way to add text to my scene or puppet in character animator? I know i can add it in AI and import it, but can i do it in CH?

I have my final render ready but i am getting worst quality of video (animated).How to fix it? (Also i scaled up my character animator files. Here are some screenshots. I made the source files 2000x2000 still not working. My video is very blurry and distorted in final reder.  

I have been slowly learning how to use this software for the past week. What is the best way to animate the eyebrows if you dont have a webcam? keyframing? triggers? dragger? Or is there something else im missing? Thanks for the input. Any links to blogs or videos on this topic is greatly appreciated. ThanksJacob

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I ceated a New Puppet, but forsome reason I can't get the Mouth to work.  Any help please.  Here is the puppet and the set up.     

hello, can i use lip sync on two or characters at same time in adobe character animator.second problem is that, how to create background in after effect like city view in the back of character. Is adobe give different background pack to use in your project.third is what software of adobe is best for creating characters — illustrator or photoshop or other.i am just want to make a  3 to 4 min video of characters that walking and talking and background also change after few second .what software you suggest me . someone suggest meillustrator is best for making 2d characters and character animator for facial expression and after effect for compose them all adding audio , make your character walking and change background also. what you suggest and also solve my problems .i will be very thankful to you.

Hi,  I need a help with this problem:My puppet raises its hand above head. In a middle of movement it swaps hand to point (attention). When I set hand to swap it back to default in the middle of movement down, it flips hand to default before I press the trigger. If I set flip layer end in timeline to whole movement end, it swaps at the beginning of movement down. I just cannot find the way, how to set it up and down alike and reverse. Thank you for your replies, Me2D