Questions

Hi there, Is it possible to Animating Arms with my Arm Movements? If so can you provide a turtorial on how to accomplish this? It appears you can only assign a drag and click effect.

Hello there, hope you will be doing great. I have an issue with the rigging of a new character. This is a simple potato character having only a head and limbs no torso. When I import the file in the character animator, the face background didn't show there. Please let me know how to fix it, is there any issue with layers or this is something else? Screenshots are given here. I am using adobe illustrator 2020 and adobe character animator 2022. 

Hi everybody,I've been working with Ch for a while now and I find that I'm quickly running out of keyboard alphanumerical keys to use for trigger purposes (I wish we could assign more keys to triggers) so I'm thinking it might be time to invest in something to help the situation. I've seen people post about controlling triggers with a MIDI keyboard. I don't know the first thing about those. What's a good budget one to get, how do they work, and does anyone have recommendations on where to start? Or is there something totally different that I should be looking into?I don't know if it's relevant, but I'm mostly working on a desktop PC and occasionally on a Surface laptop (laptop is much less relevant as it's getting on in age and may have to be replaced with something more animation-friendly soon anyway). Also, to clarify, I don't stream these animations live and what I see surrounding MIDI online seems to be geared more toward livestreams. Would it still work for plain ole recordin

Hi there, I came across a strange behaviour of my Character Animator - it would shut down every time I attempted to open a puppet or just a file. Seldom it would open and not crash as long as I didn't switch to the Rig Mode. The problem is very frustrating. Any ideas how to solve this?

When I create a scene everyting fits perfectly in the 1920x1080 box. When I export the scene to MP4, everything shifts to the left and there's an additional vertical section added to the right of the screen. What's going on? Thanks.

The default background keeps popping up unwanted.  So I clicked on "edit original." But instead of taking me to Photoshop -- it takes me Photoshop Elements, where I cannot properly delete the background files.

I am using puppet maker and have imported two different puppets. When I have one puppet selected and one audio clip selected and click "sync," the voice syncs to both the currently selected puppet AND the other puppet in the scene.  How do I ensure that I sync only one puppet?

Hi, I animated a scene in Character animator then linked it to an after effects project. But it seems the Ch audio doesn't work in AE... I've seen older posts talking about the same issue but no solution there. Is this a bug that dosn't have a fix?

Hello Community  Please help? I'm using the standard puppets that come with Character Animator. The Starter version of Character Animator allows me to drag and drop the triggers onto my timeline. However, I cannot find that same functionality on the Pro version. The puppet already came with triggers, now all I want to do is add them to my recording, but I can't seem to figure it out on Pro. Thanks a ton in advance!

When I export the MP4, the audio is much softer than it should be.  I am using all standard settings.  What's the trick to getting Character Animator to export an MP4 with the right overall audio levels.  The audio is from mp3's, and the recordings are fine, at normal levels. But when the scene is exported to MP4, the overall volume level of the video is about half of what it should be -- which I heard lowers your ranking on Google Search, by the way, which makes this doubly itrritating.

The work area is like the default character background -- it keeps coming into play uncommanded. I set the work area to end of video using "set work area to end at playhead" -- but the next time I play the video, it stops 2 seconds early, at the end of some OTHER work area that I never set (or at least never purposefully set).  Is there a way to just turn the work area function off until it's actually neeeded?

There is currently an arrow that takes you to the start of the scene when clicked.  This arrow is located to the left of the "play" button.  However there  is no corresponding arrow on the right of the "play" button to take you to the END of the scene.  I would find such a button quite useful. Thanks.

I've gone into record mode and unclicked everything but dragger.  However, as I record, dragger input is disabled.  I only see the dragging input that was previously recorded.   Why am I unable to input dragger motion now? Thanks.

I tried to change the background but it is gave the same result.

Hello! Sorry, just started learning this program yesterday. For some reason my Mouth wouldn't flip from Aa to Neutral and the Left Pupil wouldn't move. Both Eyebrows and the Blinking worked perfectly though. Any suggestions appreciated.

Hello there, hope you will be doing great. I have an issue regarding the rigging of a character in character animator. Even though I have arranged all the layers properly, the lip sync is not working. Please let me know how to fix it. I am attaching a screenshot of Photoshop layers here. I am using adobe character animator 22.3 on windows 10. 

Can I use the Starter pack only for 7 days or indefintely??? When I look at creative cloud suite, it shows that there are 7 days remaning for adobe character animator.

HelloI am HasanI installed Character Animator 22.4 and also Media Encoder 22.4 But error appear when I export my projectplease help!andWhat is the version compatible for them ?thanks  

Pardon my incopetence -  I am trying to create a little looping animation where my character's legs each move in a circle without stopping. That's it. Just a constant unstopping circle walk. Like some other users, I don't want to use the Walk behavior because it's seemingly designed only for a very specific type of  tall, narrow humanoid body-type. My characters (being fat and short) consequently don't work with the Walk Behavior (unfortunately it seem like it was animated with such over-the-top exaggeration in the shoulders, that my characters will never look natural while using it). So, I'm trying to just create a simple animated loop in the legs - the kind of fundamental thing we all did the first day or two of animation school. It's a task that would take maybe 10 seconds to do in After Effects, but I simply can't find this feature  in Character Animator.  I feel it must exist and I just can't find it.  But as best as I can tell, the only way I've

Hi everyone! I don't have a webcam but i have a sony a6300 DSLR that works just fine, i managed to set it as a virtual camera with OBS and the Virtual Camera pluginand it works on discord (i'm guessing it will work in any other videocalls apps) my issue comes when i try to add a webcam in Character Animator and it doesnt find any webcam. I press the little webcam icon, it turns blue as long is i keep it pressed, and turns back grey as i stop pressing it. I wouldn't mind spending 20 bucks on a cheapo webcam but it bothers me a bit having an expensive, goodlooking camera that works everywhere but Adobe Character Animator, any help? Excuse my english and thank you so much.

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I have a character who is sitting, so they dont have any leg tags. He can move from the waist with body tracking but for some reason he moves back to his original position once i move my body in the camera. On the Body behaviour I have "If tracking lost" set to hold in place, but either setting doesnt seem to make a difference.   If i disarm the body behaviour it stops doing this, and I have a face behaviour that drives some of the tilt and doesn't reset its position if I have the face behaviour armed and the body behaviour disarmed, but i do need it to be armed. I haven't seen this happen before with any sitting puppet ive made before in the same way Thanks

Can I Purchase motions to add to Motion library? If so where?

Hi, I've got a character where i've set up face parallax following this video - The Head and the Left Ear have their own head behaviours applied.All of it works just how I want, but my character has a beard I want to move along with the mouth parallax, but I also want it to be masked to the face so when my character turns, more or less of the beard is revealed. I've tried...Grouping the beard and applying the mouth tag. It seems like Ch recognises only one instance of the mouth tag, whichever comes first in the layer hiearchy, which I need for the actual mouth. Putting the beard group inside the mouth group like this+Mouth  >Beard group  >Neutral  >Surprised (then all the other mouth shapes etc etc)This doesnt work because i think Ch assumes the beard is another mouth shape that it should switch between for the lip sync so it doesn't appear by default. Then I tried this:+Mouth   >Beard group   >Mouth      

My puppet has a head hierarchy that's pretty standard:  PuppetName - Head -  Frontal - then face elements (Glasses, Left Eye, Right Eye, etc).   Here's the  problem: I would love to put both eyes inside the Glasses layer, but I am unable to put them within that layer because Illustrator won't let me keep adding sub-layers apparently. I think I need all the hierarchy layers I currently have, so, what's the best way to overcome this limitation?Thanks for any help you can offer!