Questions

I uploaded  a video of the issue to youtube, basically I made a silly animation were my character takes a weapon from behind his chair and brings it to the front i'm probably going about it the wrong way any help would be appreciated.  https://youtu.be/WSR_sDa44cw   you can probably tell by my voice i feel a little defeated 😞 lol.

Is it possible to create triggers using timecode?*I have several 1 minute videos where I have to "live" record the eye movement (just looking left/right, depending on who is talking) and I use the triggers.*Mapped to the right/left arrow keys and that works fine... But can I just enter timcodes and make it "look left (or right)" at certian timecodes?(i.e.:  "Look left" at 01:01:01:01, 01:02:00:00, 01:03:10:00, etc.)?

Please help! I'm pretty new to Character Animator, but I've been watching lots of tutorials online. I thought I was doing pretty well, but I've run into an issue where some of my triggers for facial expressions aren't working. For example, I have two versions of the character's smile, so one is labeled Smile, which works fine, but then I have one I've called Big_Smile, which uses cycle layers, and when I try to trigger that, nothing happens. Another example is I have an expression called "Shock." I've added a trigger, and when I try to play it, again nothing happens. I've included a screenshot of my rigged puppet.

I need to animate with voice over my own character which I have created, with that talking animation I want to animate with hand guestures. If I can creat some action animation so I can use as a trigger.

I was thinking how cool would it be to use CA to auto animate an a.i assistant like elevenlabs a.iYou can create a character and have a conversation with it while watching it.

Hi everyone. I've made changes in my CA puppet but they are not reflected in the original PS edit.The scale for the body is off in the PS original and I need the PS original to match the scale in my CA.I don't know how I did that but I need them to now match.

I animated a character from Adobe Character and then converted it to a video from Adobe Media Encoder and I want to open a video from Adobe Character and edit it

Why do the puppets I create, when imported to CA, "float" as opposed to the CA stock ones whose "feet" remain still.  Your assistance is appreciated greatly

I am using a downloaded puppet and I got the walk function to work, but the viewpoint isn't correct. It is like the "camera" is in the middle of my puppet's neck.  Anyone know how I can fix this? 

All of my puppets who have autoblink close their eyes at the beginning of the scene and keep them closed until the first puppet in the scene has visemes. Then all of them open their eyes at the same time and begin regular autoblink. It's silly looking and also makes it a tight edit due to the character having closed eyes right up until one of them starts to talk. Anyone else encountered this weird quirk?

Hi All, I am super super new at Character Animator. I have been trying to create myself for a video for my blog but I can't for some reason get the lip sync to work. I just finished creating all of the unique mouth arrangements Ee, D, R, and so on. When I use the keyboard to test it, it works perfectly. But for some reason the audio will not work. I have tried everything that I can think of.Is there something that I forgot to add? Or did I not select something right? I have also tried to use the tutorials but haven't had much luck trying to fix my problem. The only thing the face matching will do is smile and stay neutral.Thank you so much in advance.

This may be a dumb question, but when setting up a scene, is there a way to quickly drag puppets into the location you want them on the screen? Like, the way you would use the arrow tool in Illustrator or Photoshop to move things around? It's kind of tedious to constantly have to dial in the X and Y positions for everything rather than simply move stuff there directly with your mouse.

Ive tried the last 4 versions of CA, and they all give:libgit2 error -3(4/revspec 'HEAD' not found) returned from git_revparse_single(&headP, repoP, specZ)When trying to open a file.Then for some reason in the new v25 I cant even start a new file to try recreate.Any ideas? 

Hi.I am researching different software. I am relatively new to 2D animation. While I am willing to put the work in, I am also looking for something with a relatively fast learning curve while getting optimal results.I am currently learning Adobe Character Animator for making 2D animations with multiple characters. A little time consuming...Anyone have any thoughts on Cartoon Animator 5? I have read so many horrible old reviews. I am wondering if they have improved any. I know they rig differenlty and don't use vectors. You also have to pay a ton for add-ons. I have heard horrible things about their customer service. In fact I have tried to contact them with pre-sale questions and have been unsuccessful. I guess I am looking for anything positive with this software/company.Also any thoughts on Mojo or Toon Boom Harmnony? These are the top 3 that come to mind.I'm not trying to knock Adobe down. But I am looking for a 2D animator that doesn't require a degree in graphic design. I do know

Hi.I am new to Character Animator. I am learning the basics at the moment.Before I proceed, I would like to know how easy or feasible is it to make more than one character for an animated cartoon. Let's say for example I wanted three characters?How would I go about doing this? I have watched tons of Okay Samurai's videos. He is great. But I haven't seen how to incorporate more than one character.I am interested in making an educational YT video, in 2D animation style.Thanks for any input.

Hey all, installing the NDI tools and nothing is showing up with CC2020.  I've attempted all the fixes listed here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/character-animator/ndi-doesn-t-show-up-in-character-animator/m-p/9179654#M2951  But still not seeing the NDI plugins anywhere on the CC file system.  Is there a bug with NDI and 2020?

can someone please tell me how can i remove the background of a puppet on adobe illustrator

Hi,When I first started, the eyes were tracking great, and when I open up a new template project those eyes work great too, so it must be something on my end but I can't for the life of me figure out what it is. I thought I tagged everything correctly but what am I missing? Thanks for your help!

When I try to use puppet maker ,I can't change the background it stays on the default background and when i try to import my background this is how it looks like.what can I do?

Hi I rigged a character to work as I needed and then decided to give her a clipboard so she didn't need to worry about her hands. I copy pasted the photoshop file and matched the rigging to the working character and they behave differently. One bends at the hips like a human the other bends like a rubber doll, getting longer and stretched.  What am I missing, I can't see any differences between the 2 apart from the removal of the arms.  I have attahced a video to show what I mean https://youtu.be/6GtEx-4wcTw

I'm working with a vector (.ai) character. But I have two conflicting things:1. The character has a gradient "glow"layer behind it2. I want to run the Wiggler behavior on a separate layer of the character ... which requires me to Render as Vector ... which makes the gradient not work.If I were to make the gradient glow a separate character (not Rendered as Vector), is there an automated way to have that Glow character exactly track the positioning/scale/etc. of the main character? So that, essentially, I could stack the one on top of the other and they would basically behave as a single character? 

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Just working on my first project. For basic use it's working great. But I wanted to add a swap set face—the character is by default grumpy, and I wanted a comical version where he's trying to smile. I have the swap set smile (grimace) working just fine—the Neutral mouth is a slightly frowny grimace, the Smile is barely upturned, and Surprised is just slightly wider and more upturned. This is fun, because I can trigger the swap with the "S" key and perform all those variations with the face tracking camera (rather than having to Except ... none of my eye movements are working in the Grimace swap set. No blink tracking, no eyebrow tracking (the eyebrows in the swap point slightly upward, rather than the neutral downward), and even the manual left-right looking (triggered by the arrow keys) doesn't work when I'm in the swap. Any ideas? I see that Properties > Replacements only shows the Neutral blinks, and no eyebrows at all. Not sure how to fix that... 

The answer to this is most probably very simple but when I draw a character in Illustrator and try and reduce the number of sub-layer the best I can do is as below: Taking the left eye brow, as an example, I have the main layer and a secondary layer thereafter. But if you look at the 'Blank Face AI' that comes with the Character Animator program program they have each feature of the face to a single layer as shown below. I am sure this is a simple fix to copy but can someone tell how they simplify the Illustrator drawing like this so I can emulate it. Thank you.

I am trying to find a puppet I can use Motion Library on. I have tried CowFolk, Nagisa, and Hunter. I have gone into Ps and separated the limbs. The walk cycles work, but I can not get the Motion Library motions to do anything. I have watched Motion Library, Walk, and Limb IK. I know from experience it will be between a simple red dot or a complete rebuild of the Character. Any help is appreciated.