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mre8
Inspiring
January 5, 2018
Question

Puppet warp tool in Illustrator warps face tracking

  • January 5, 2018
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I was not sure how to word this, but here's what happened:

I have a puppet (designed in illustrator) that is just a floating head.

I used the puppet warp tool in AI to adjust the object on a mouth viseme layer. When I opened the puppet in Character Animator, it now stretches and weird ways when I use the face tracking in record mode (see attached). This is what happens when I lean my head to the side. 

As best I can tell, it seems like there is a fixed point at the top of the puppets head and the rest of the head stretches from that point. This is just a guess. I have not used pins and fixed points yet and have no clue how what I did in Illustrator translates to Character Animator.

I deleted the layer in Illustrator that I had originally puppet warped, but the Character Animator puppet is still behaving the same way.

Thanks for the help!

Imari

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mre8
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Inspiring
January 6, 2018

Well. Newbie issue. Somehow, my head layer's crown icon (warp independently) was deactivated! Simple...