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Participant
May 17, 2021
Question

How would you do a lamp character?

  • May 17, 2021
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Hey community.

 

I have a question regarding a non-standard-character. How would you do a lamp character like scribbled below? Basically it is a 3 part IK chain with the head attached to the end.

Is this possible in CA?

 

Thank you all and kind regards.

 

Sascha

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Participant
May 20, 2021

Hey community.

 

I would say this is a successful first test 🙂

 

 

I basically followed Dave Werners IK Limb tutorial, et voilà...

 

I like Character Animator 🙂

Adobe Employee
May 25, 2021

This is looking great!

Regards,
Kevin

alank99101739
Legend
May 17, 2021

I would start with an easy approach and see how it goes. Take you drawing, erase the background (so it's transparent), load into char3acter animator, then put sticks where you don't want bending (along two straight sticks, along edges of head, across base). Then put a pin on the base and a dragger on the head and see how it goes.

 

''There are more advanced things like hinge joints, but doing the above is pretty quick and gives you a bit of a feel without much work.