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I've an arm issue that I've spent days on; both robot arms have the same rigging, but one arm is behaving completely differently and not recording correctly. I'm stumped. https://youtu.be/HjgJNEadejIIs some other behaviour else controlling them??  IK? Drag? 

I recently started with Adobe Character Animator a few days ago, and created my own puppet. When I was testing it, the head movement, eyes and lip sync work perfectly, but the body tracking won't work.  I followed the OkaySamurai tutorial on Adobe and when I finished, the arms wouldn't move, while his did. I followed the steps exactly. I tried later with the leg rigging but it still didn't work.Anyone have any ideas?

I’ve seen on the internet that you can automatically sync talking, body movements, and voice to your puppet (without using a camera). I’m new to Character Animator and I can’t figure out how to do that.

Hi Would it be possible to have a feature that rigs the puppet we create in say Illustrator and when we import it into Starter Mode? 

Hi all.. so im really new to this and at a point where i was able to figure out Face tracking.  So, my model have this Back Hair, which is suppose to go BEHIND the body. so i have it in seperate group AFTER the body.+puppet     >Head     >Body     >Hair Backso the head turning is working fine (little choppy but that may be a different topic) but... of course the back hair is NOT inside the "Head" group so whenever the face tracking changes the head direction, it will do nothing to the back hair. i understand that the easy solution is put them in the "Head" group in their proper categories (frontal, left profile, right profile, etc)... but that will make the back hair in FRONT of the body, visually, covering the face and the body. Then If i have the "Body" group on TOP of the "Head" group, i have some font hair that comes over the body so now, some of those front hair will be covered up by the body...  S

Hi, It is great it is possible to control triggers with MIDI, but the configuration seems to only care about the note and the port/device it originates from.  This is a major problem in a setup with several MIDI devices, hence is there any means to limit CA to only listen to a certain device/port? Thanks in advance, Magnus

Hi everyone, I thought I had a really simple task and it sounded easy to me but I am struggling. I have a van that I want to talk but also when hitting a key it becomes a lowered looking van. So the process I started was:-1) Created the Van with just eyes and a mouth2) Made it work with lipsync and eyes3) Mouth, eyes and eyebrows were all in one group4) Then I just had the van on it's own layer ourtside the group as I was only thinking of a static van Then I had the idea of the van going into a lowered position.6) I separated the wheels and left them as the separated layer outside the animated facial group, I then moved the bodywork of the van into the main group with the facial features.7) I then thought I could create a trigger that would slide the animated group of facial features and van body over the wheels. Every method I tried to create the trigger left me with just a set of wheels showing until I pressed the trigger and then the van body and the face showed

 hey everyone- gosh I'm feeling SO frustrated. I've just spent an hour watching the tutorial, I've followed the exact same steps except I used semi custom puppets (they're still automatically made by adobe, not me). I want both my puppets visable in the same scene, but one is stuck in the background - like behind the actual background. You can see it on the right above my arrow cursor. Literally all I have done is drag and drop the puppets and I'm already stuck! Please help 

With many of my puppets I can set the eye recording under Eye Gaze and there is no problem. Eyes stay open thru the scene. Then, when I use the FACE button to move the body, the eyes close or blink way too much. Thanks for your thoughts.

I had a crash earlier this evening (got a spinning beach ball while using CH, forced-quite to get out of it). When I restarted the app, I kept getting the "attempt to index a nil value" error code. So I restored my entire project folder from a Dropbox backup from a fwe minutes before the crash. But now when I open the project in CH, it only shows saved versions from 3 days ago and earlier! When I look in my project's Ch Media > Recordings folder, there is a folder full of recordings for today's work... but CH won't recognize them. Is there some way to manually force it to do so? Am I missing something about how CH organizes/recognizes/opens project files?

イラストレーターで制作したデータをCharacter Animatorに取り込んでいますが、どうしてもキャラの体がゆらゆら動いてしまいます。足にピンを向いても固定されません。ピンその他に何か必要な設定等ありますか？

Hey guys, I need some help. I am making some short videos and would like my puppet to raise his hand when some text is being displayed in the video, so is there anyway to import a video file into Adobe Character Animator in the background for reference on the timing? Thanks!

I haven't seen an update to Adobe Character Animator for a long, long time (apart from occasional bug fixes). I don't see Okay Samurai talking about any upcoming features. Is this product getting shelved?Are AI videos getting more attention at Adobe?

キャラクターが喋るゆっくり解説のような動画を作成しています。前もって収録した音声に合わせて口パクさせるような感じで作ってます。 今まではプレミアプロ上で口パクを作っていたのですが限界を感じたのでキャラクターアニメーターを使用し始めた次第です。 質問したいのが、これまでプレミアプロ上では話始めから終わりまで閉じた口と開いた口の二種類を交互に2フレームごとに高速で口パクさせていたのですがキャラクターアニメーターでそのように作るのは難しいのでしょうか。 試してみたところ音声に合わせて口パクはするのですが一時、口が開きっぱなしになったりして違和感が出てしまいます。口形素も調整してみましたがうまくいきませんでした。口の種類を増やしてみたりしましたが個人的には閉じた口と開いた口の二種類で一定間隔で交互に口パクをさせたいです。音声に合わせて決まった口パクをするような機能はないのでしょうか。また、キャラクターアニメーター以外のソフトで可能の場合も教えていただきたいです。よろしくお願いします。

Getting into Character Animator.I am enjoying the performance features... but to be perfectly honest, CA is severely lacking with regards to traditional Rigged Character capabilities. At the very least CA should have Limb Keyframes so that performances can be carefully and specifically choreographed without having to take multiple performances. IDEALLY: there would be a "Dragger Key Fram Sub Timeline" so that not only can size and position be keyframed... every dragger trhat is present on a character (possibly even dongles) can be keyframed at will maually. This would allow for specific body performances to be artoculated and then a "sweetening" performance could be passed for head, eye and mouth movements could be made to sell the animation performance with manimum drama and cartoon showmanship. Possibly even add the ability to have pupils possess both draggers and still be toggled to camera performance depending on the situation. This "Dragger Key Frame" or at lea

When I enable camera tracking, and stand back the right distance, the puppet in the scene stretches up to about 50% taller than she was originally. How can I prevent the puppelt's body height from increasing during camera tracking?

Long time since I've worked on this project but here goes. I modified a puppet in Illustrator. The puppet was placed in a scene. At the time, all was well but now the puppet loses a limb in the scene. No idea what happened. Ideas?

I'm new to character animator and am wondering if I could create a puppet with just a mouth, nothing else. I would like to either make my owns mouths or edit premade puppets so I can just have the mouth. I want to then upload my prerecorded audio to this mouth. Then I want to take this mouth recording and place it something else on a separate platform. Is this possible?

I'm trying to make an animation of drinking coffee with the magnet function, but the cup follows me even if I turn off the magnet function with the trigger function.I'm trying to do the same thing as the fish in Okey Samurai's video, but I don't know why it doesn't work.

I've been using the transcript-based lip sync (following the process from the Okay Samuria YouTube video). Overall, it works great but I keep running into the following error message: "compute lip sync failed: check that the transcript matches the audio" The transcript does tend to correctly display the words from teh audio but I get the error message regardless. Does anyone know how to fix this? Or know why I'm getting the error message since the words and audio appear to correctly match? Thanks!

Hello everyone,There are some puppets in animate-from-audio that I really like and I have used some of them but now I want to have more control over them so I am switching to character animator and I need to get those puppets into character animator.I looked for them but I did't find them. where to get them?

Hi, I'm a complete novice to CH but I've created an animated puppet which is singing along to an imported song and dancing (all in a very basic amateurish kind of way), but the idea was to have him also juggle. My original photoshop file included all the objects for juggling but I soon realised they would need to be imported seperatly. However, I cannot seem to find a way to animate them seperately from the puppet and make them move in an arc in "free space". My puppet is standing in place (not walking or moving in the scene) and I thought I'd be able to find a method to do this. I've spent a lot of time Googling and not found a way. Do I need to export him as a video into somthing like After Effects to acheive this? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you, David.

I'm having trouble getting my pupils to track properly. I've got three different puppets set up (one of them is working fine). Two of them have issues: the first, when I move the pupils, the whole eye moves with it. I assume this is an issue of independence, but the pupils are set to independent (and have the crown icon), same as my other puppet. The third one has one working eye, the other not fully working...the eye moves down fine, moves slightly to the right, and not at all up or to the left. No idea what's going on with that one. All are set to use eye gaze based on keyboard input. Please help?

Hi all!I currently have one CA puppet that I use as a template for a vast variety of other puppets.The other puppets consist of the same character, but with different outfits, triggers, etc.I previous had one file with this idea in mind where i had added around 40+ puppets.I would eventually run into issues with lag and performance, but I am unsure whether it was my computer or the program. I deleted some of the scenes and only had up to 5 scenes available, but still maintained the 40+ rigs within the file.  I now have a better rig with more ram and a new ssd.My main question is, what is the best practice here for performance when it comes to a file that can contain many puppet files?Im reworking my main template puppet so I am in a sense starting over, so i'd like to future proof this idea of multiple puppets.  Does CA slow down when you have multiple rigged puppets in one file? should i cut back on scenes only?is having multiple rigged characters okay?any hel

I am trying to get my character to pick up a piece of chalk. My puppet was one of the ones in the puppet library, so I didn't do the rigging myself, but I'm trying to learn based on watching videos and looking to see how this one is already rigged. I made sure the chalk was in its own folder in its own layer in PS. I had to make a chalk tray on the chalkboard to make sure the chalk didn't fall to the ground. I have it set as Magnet, Dynamic, Collide, though I don't know for sure if it have the magnets set on the right folder entry. Next, I am trying to figure out where to put the Magnet on the Arm. I think I have all of the rigging right on the Left Arm, with the Left Wrist being draggable. But every time I try to put a magnet anywhere on the Arm, I get the following error message:  If I put Dynamic on the wrist, the hand falls off. If I put Dynamic on the elbow, the forearm falls off. If I put Dynamic on the shoulder, the arm falls off. If I put Dynamic on the