Character Animator CC 2018- Foreground image

You can import PNG, Illustrator, PSD, JPEG (I think that is the list) files into Character Animator, which turns them into puppets.  If you want it as a foreground image (e.g. a desk in front of a character), you need to have transparency support in the image format (which means JPEG is not an option as it does not support transparency).   You cannot load an AutoCad file for example - CH does not Understand it.

You load the image (via “import”) and get a puppet, the only behavior you really need on it is “Transform” which allows you to control the position and scale. The puppet will by default be given face movements and all sorts of things which you can delete if you want to - just leave “Transform” in place.

So the background and foreground images are puppets - just ones without legs or arms. They just sit there in the scene, with the background images behind the puppets (at the bottom of the scene panel) and foreground images (e.g. a desk) that is in front of puppets at the top of the screen in the scene panel.