best way to convert animate cc files to a puppet

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February 2, 2025
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If you had files already for a avatar that animate in animate cc, what is the easiest way to get these into adobe character animator, i realize i am missing speaking mouth shapes, but i have a lot of these done and more scratching my head as i see options for illustator and photoshop but not animate cc for doing this.

this is a example of what i'm working with, i also have the fla for this....

i want to take the front view and have a live avatar for doing video reviews. these are aleady split apart in pieces at least, i think TOO many pieces.

https://archive.org/details/blue-jellyneo-idle-pets

TheOriginalGC

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Character Animator can only import layered files from Illustrator or Photoshop into puppet files. It can also import static images (such as a background or prop) for use in a scene. A typical puppet has separate layers for the head (containing layers for the eyes, nose and mouth) and body (containing the torso and limbs). The limbs can be divided into upper/lower sections as well as separate layers for hands and feet.

Another option is to use cycle layers behavior to produce frame-by-frame animation. This is usually used for effects and other "one-off" animations.

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terryw30405050Author

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i got it somewhat today....the trick was getting the animate cc file INTO photoshop or illustrator anad finding a short enough puppet to match them.

The nifty part is that the artwork is already separated....whats giving me a bit of trouble is the eyes so far. they have a masking layer and well, illustrator isn't liking that 😞

the nice thing is that this file set already has 3 sets of eyelids, multiple arms......all nicely separated

problem: the eyes are TOO separated as they have a symbol for the yellow part thats actually way bigger then the eyes behind a mask(that green part) , the pupil is the yellow part and has 3 eyelids per side. i attached the swf if it will post so you can look at it, the symbols are all in the library, pardon the mess on the stage. You may need jpexs flash decoder to make that a fla, for some reason the adobe forums won't allow posting a fla, which is odd as they still very support the product....

the rolling suspicion is this game file is made off a flash tv production file and was later used for lesser things as this level of eye control is insane for any other purpose in 2009 to 2014.