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cheyrn
cheyrn
Inspiring
July 19, 2018
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Is there a way to close a project?

  • July 19, 2018
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I am just starting and it is disconcerting that the list of projects continuously grows. Close is greyed out. Is there anyway to close a project?

      Correct answer alank99101739

      Ah, thank you. They are not projects. The ones starting with “Scene” are scenes within the current project, the ones with the person icons are puppets. You can delete scenes or puppets by clicking on them then hitting the DEL key (or using menus etc).

      Normally you keep making changes to the same scene, starting a new scene only when needed. E.g. if you want to do different camera angles I start a new scene per camera angle.

      For puppets, if you edit the PSD etc file, when you save it Character Animator will reimport the changes automatically. No need to create a new puppet each time. So you just create new puppets per artwork file.

      To close a project you do that from the menu where there is also a “create new project” option. I start a new project per episode I create etc.

      I hope that helps!

      3 replies

      cheyrn
      cheyrnAuthor
      Inspiring
      July 21, 2018

      Ah, clicking delete also removes the projects from the list. Thank you.

      cheyrn
      cheyrnAuthor
      Inspiring
      July 22, 2018

      To clarify, only one project can be open at a time. The project window for the one project can list puppets and scenes.  You can delete them by selecting them and pressing the delete key.

        alank99101739
        alank99101739
        Brainiac
        July 22, 2018

        Yes. You can also use the 'bin' (folder) icon to create new folders (bins) to organize more complex projects if the list gets too long. I tend to do lots of short scenes, so I number everything to help me keep it organized (each scene is only a few seconds long representing a different camera angle). I then put puppets into another folder, different background images in another, and so on.

        cheyrn
        cheyrnAuthor
        Inspiring
        July 21, 2018

        alank99101739
        alank99101739Correct answer
        Brainiac
        July 21, 2018

        Ah, thank you. They are not projects. The ones starting with “Scene” are scenes within the current project, the ones with the person icons are puppets. You can delete scenes or puppets by clicking on them then hitting the DEL key (or using menus etc).

        Normally you keep making changes to the same scene, starting a new scene only when needed. E.g. if you want to do different camera angles I start a new scene per camera angle.

        For puppets, if you edit the PSD etc file, when you save it Character Animator will reimport the changes automatically. No need to create a new puppet each time. So you just create new puppets per artwork file.

        To close a project you do that from the menu where there is also a “create new project” option. I start a new project per episode I create etc.

        I hope that helps!

        CoSA_DaveS
        Adobe Employee
        CoSA_DaveS
        Adobe Employee
        July 19, 2018

        To close a project you just open another one, there's always a project open.

        The list of recently opened project stops growing at some point. Is it causing a problem?

        cheyrn
        cheyrnAuthor
        Inspiring
        July 20, 2018

        I haven't even really started yet and there is already a page full of  project names. It's already annoying having to look through the list to find where a project or scene is to be able to click on it.

        alank99101739
        alank99101739
        Brainiac
        July 20, 2018

        Can you include a screenshot here? Just paste it into the text window here. Thx!

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