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Zedits
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January 11, 2022
Question

Unable to Rig & Body Track customized puppet

  • January 11, 2022
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I have no idea how to find a solution so please be kind, if this is a repeat technical question. For well over a year now, I've been trying to bring a customized puppet to life in Character Animator. I've followed Dave Werner's (and more) tutorials on rigging issues, how to rig, rigging for beginners, etc. and still for the life of me, I cannot bring this customized puppet to life. The only feature that works is the lip sync. I had a friend make the original illustration then I used a Chloe puppet template to isolate the layers in hopes there will be no issues in Character Animator. I've also tried to use the new Body Tracking feature, and still everything fails. I have no idea what the next steps are. I've lately been trying to bring this character life in After Effects but, with the amount of layers, movement, etc., the task seems too time consuming with the amount of content I'm hoping to publish with this character. Are there any options or insight? I would send the file to someone at Adobe to see if this is fixable but I don't know what else to do with this. Thank You.

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alank99101739
Legend
January 11, 2022

If you don't get a volunteer to look at the puppet, feel free to share screenshots of the rigging hierarchy here. There are a number of community volunteers that offer free advice. 

I would tackle one area at a time - moving arms, mouth, eyes, hair, hand positions etc. Once working, move on to the next area. First question is do you want multiple profiles. That is good to do early if so.

Zedits
ZeditsAuthor
Participant
January 12, 2022

I'm new to asking for help with this but it's been so long trying to self-troubleshoot and I'm not sure what options are left. Here's a few screenshots from the rigging and what it looks like (no matter what) in the record section. The body tracking is even worse. The lips appear fine with the auto sync compute feature. I was going to end up making a face-only video as a last resort "solution." I would love to know if this is fixable and what option(s) there are. To my knowledge, I tagged and labeled everything "correctly," but clearly there is something wrong. Let me know if I should share any additional files/screenshots. 

 

Thank You.

 

 

Zedits
ZeditsAuthor
Participant
January 12, 2022

Forgot to share what the layers/template looks like (based on Chloe).