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I am working on adobe character animationI can not record my audiowhen I talk I do not see a green audio mixer show upAlso, my webcam and my microphone icon is blueI have Windows 10

Hi All, Hope you can help, as I'm a new starter in the world of animation and just wanted help on 3 things please. 1. I have created a puppet in Character Animator (photoshop), whereby I have imported an animated desk onto the scene aswell. The problem is I cannot get the desk to go infront of the puppet, as I want the sence to look like the puppet is sitting down behind the desk.  2. How do I get my puppet to point at the screen please?  3. How do I get my puppet to move both arms/hands at the same time please?  Thank you

Occasionally when exporting 20 sequences in a row via Media Encoding (control-M on windows, H.264, match input bitrate) it starts failing to encode after successfully doing 10 or so of them. I get a bleating sheep/goat, and yellow triangle icon saying the encoding failed, and an error like the following at the end of the log. - Source File: C:\Adobe\Creative Cloud Files\Extra Ordinary\Ep1 - Friendship\_Projects\Ch Ep1 Friendship\Ch Ep1 Friendship.chproj - Output File: C:\Adobe\Renders\Ep1 Friendship\videos\2\2-1-2.mp4 - Preset Used: Match Source - High bitrate - Video: - Audio: - Bitrate: - Encoding Time: 00:00:0001/29/2018 12:35:43 PM : Encoding Failed------------------------------------------------------------Could not read from the source. Please check if it has moved or been deleted.Each following one queued up also fails.  I stop Media encoding, the exit the window and launch it again to try starting up the encoder again. It continues to fail.I exit all Adobe products (Ch,

Thank you for any adviceI am wondering if there is anywhere that has more animations like Maximo offers.  Do any of the adobe products come with a bank of movements?  The Mixamo movements are great but there are many movements that I can't find that I would like.Any tips or advice on this would be appreciated.  I know that I could learn to animate myself but I'm hoping to find a bank of movements that would have everything I need.  Or a tool that is very easy to use to create movements.Thank you!

 タイトルと画像の通りです。RightEyeで指定しているのに原点が左の瞳に認識されてしまいます。選択ツールで原点が触れず…原点の移動の仕方はないのでしょうか。あともう一つ、視点の設定はできたのですが、瞳ではなく目全体が人物のBGを無視してあちこち行ってしまいます。これは私の知識不足だと思うのですが、どうすればいいかわかりません…ご教授いただけたらと思います。 使用osはmacでChは最新版です。

Hello CA team. I hope I haven't been flooding the forums too much lately with all my posts.  I've been thinking about this one for a while whne it comes to integration with AE.  I have multiple puppets talking to each other all the time and definitely need them in the same scene for proper eye responses and general pacing but would really love to important the scene with all the puppets as layers with the transform properties.  Other wise I have to copy each puppet into it's own scene and anchor points get messy since the puppet is a scene at the larger export size than the layer size.  It'd be amazing to have the puppets in a scene as layers with their own dimensions and that layer itself is moving.  Right now if I move a character from own end of the frame to the other the transform properties are for the entire scene size rathen defining the size of the puppet and its maximum reach that moves across the screen.  I'm sorry if this is confusing TT TT

I have a mothers day project I am making and finished it but for some reason I am getting this error code 405861230:237+36. I was having problems exporting to adobe media encoder  and saved what I could before restarting my pc. Upon restarting, media encoder works but now character editor says for one of my puppets it cannot find one of the visemes (oh) and theres is an error adn it wont load. I can click on the puppet and click "edit original" and everything is there in photoshop. Even the viseme that it seems no to be able to find. Also none of my other scenes will export. That is where I get the error code above. What can I do? I am using Adobe Character Animator 2020 version 3.2 I believe on Windows 10 Update - I ended up redoing the puppet that wouldnt load in photoshop from an older version of the file and imported that into character animator. After that, everything worked and exported as it should!

Hello,i would like to know how to save your work in character animator.

Hello, I've been trying to get a fidget spinner to be a prop that spins around my character's finger.  I've done a lot of trial and error and it would even work at times but the performance wouldn't record  properly. Any thoughts?  Hinge is perfect for this and would to get it to work.  Thank you! 

What is a proper way of naming puppet layers in Illustrator to have it auto-tagged as its respective parts in Charactera Animator? I have named an eye as an eye or a blink layer as blink for example, but it's not auto-tagged as eye/blink when imported to Character Animator and it makes me have to rename everything manually, which is time-consuming. Thanks!

I have a puppet sitting in a chair behind a desk.The puppet's layers are ordered below the desk to be able to make him walk behind it and sit down.I want to be able to put my puppet's arms on top of the desk to "work at his pc", but naturally the arms go behind the desk due to the layering order.I tried to create an extra set of arms that are layered on top of the desk, but I can't seem to deactivate the original arms or "invert" the trigger to make the arms disappear.Any tips would be appreciated!

Hi folks, I had a nice walk to the left all going on, puppet turned - with some in between animation - but then when I tagged the other side it's all gone wrong and I can't figure it out. When I turn to the right now I have just a head and when I turn to the left I have nothing. Any help appreciated, this is driving me crazy!

Does anyone know of a program that can convert video of people into animated objects. ie... If i have a video of a human walking, it will convert that video into a dog walking like how the character animator/iphones animoji works. How they mimic ones facial expressions, I was looking for a program that could mimic a a body movement into a animal movement from a predesigned 3d/2d model. Rough animation movements are fine.

I'm new to Character Animator and I'm not sure why the record screen is blank.    

Hello, I am trying to match arm movements in the Record timeline. I can get the arm movements perfect for my right arm, but I can't match the movements easy enough in my left without a ton of trial and error. Is there anyway to copy and mirror the animation from one arm to the other, to get them to sync up? My goal is to have a character wave his arms, but together in the same movements. Thank you!

What would be the most elegant way to record a talk show type scene where the two particpants are far apart? The best I can come up with is to have the two computers independently run character animator with syphon on and record the video conference off something like skype or MS teams...but that gets two uneven sized windows...not the daily show type setup I'd like. I've read the howtos here...but they would seem only to work with comptuers in the same room or they don't seem to support 2 puppets in the same scene. Application: I'm teaching at a uni in the Netherlands. For one of my classes I created video annotations for each of the powerpoint slides using character animator (the red monster is great). Students go through the deck at their own speed and the clips are 30 secs to 5 mins long...good for short attention spans. For a class in the fall there are 2 of us who teach...and we play with each other in front of the class. We want to be in the scene together. Oh...and we don'

Hi, I'm a little confused as to why I'm unable to install version 3.2. I'm trying to work on a project that involves animating a rig built in Illustrator (which I have the most recent version of) however I can't seem to do so. The rig appears in the 'rig' section but not the 'record', which is odd. I'm in the UK, I have no idea if this could be the reason I cannot update? I'm also not sure if it's the fact that I don't have 3.2 for me not being able to correctly open the illustrator rig?Any help would be much appreciated, cheers.

There seems to be a lot more activity here recently as more people are trying out the software. Some of the problems are hard to solve via forum posts and screen grabs. Nothing like sharing a puppet, opening it up, and trying to solve the issues. But I thought it could be interesting for others to watch/suggest/ask live. We could do a Google Meet or similar where people are welcome to join and bring problems, share screens, share puppets and we debug and just chat about techniques live. Would people turn up if a call was organized? Would people be willing to share their puppets to use to debug live? Or even just show off their work for a few minutes and answer questions on how they did it?

Hey guys. Is't been 3d day already I'm trying to find solution. Probably you'll see something I missed.I'd want the puppet to walk left and right by pressing arrows. And it does but with left arrow it works as a normal swap set and all the rest position dissapear unlike right arrow shows standing frontal and walking profile positions at the same time. It helps when I delete the swap set for the body positions and just turn off quarters but I'd need possibility to switch between body positions without starting walk behavior. Also I untagged right quarter as right quarter because when it is tagged somehow it starts to use walking behavior for quarter and not for profile. The problem doesn't occure for left part. I'm totally confused. It's all set up the same but works different.In case you'll be so kind to look through the puppet you can find it here  

have been having issues with the recording being a lot different than what I actually do during the recording session when it comes to puppets tagged with the dynamic tag. I have my own puppets set up that are not functioning correctly, but to make sure it wasn't my puppet having rigging issues, I downloaded the basics physics puppet from Adobe to demostrate, so that the set up of the puppet wouldn't be the issue.And here is a video of my screen as I record and play back.You can see my actions as I record, but when I go back to view, it's totally different than what I wanted recorded. I uninstalled and reinstalled CA right before filming that just in cast there was a glitch in my update. Is that's what supposed to happen when I record? It really makes no sense to me why it doesn't record my actions as I move the draggable item. (Note: If I turn off the dynamic tag, but leave collide and draggable attached, it will properly record the scene, but I really need the dynamic tag to work)

Hi, everyone! I made lip sync track for a puppet that had one mouth set. Then I edited the character, and added an alternative sad mouth set. Then I created a swap set from those mouthes. As I press the designated key it switches the alt mouth on. And it works while I talk via camera. But when I play my pre-made lip sync track, it doesn't stay alt, it goes as usual. When i stop playimg, and trigger the key, mouth changes accordingly. Press play again, and it goes to default despite my pressing and holding the key.  Example file here What am I doing wrong?(

Hey! I'm new to Character Animator and this may be more simple than I thought. I was wondering if there's a way to attach just the mouth presets onto a still Photoshop image. I'm trying to create some minimalist videos and for a lot of my shots I just need the mouth to be moving while the "character" is just a picture. Any ideas?

Hello everyone.  The arms of my character seems to react in slow motion to the draggers. I don't know why. I've been testing it with and without ArmIk behaviors but it does not seems to work. Any Help?

Hello, I'm just getting to know Character Animator and I was following all of Okay Samurai Tutorials on YouTube, and when I reached the "Replays" tutorial I noticed that there is a difference in the Arm IK panel. I couldn't fix the elbow problem because there isn't an activation button next to the Reverse bend check.   Please check the attached screenshot below.    Is the problem with the version I'm using or is there a new technique for it? because even when I check the boxes next to them there is no change to the elbow bend issue.  Waiting for your reply.   Regards, Maryah 

Hi! I'm recieving this error code that stops the "record" screen from updating in real-time. It hasn't crashed the program, but it did stop it from saving properly initially. It happens whenever I select a new layer, it's non-destructive, but it does get in the way, and will stop me from being productive.If anyone understands this error please help! -Paul