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it’s just black when i go into each section -even re-creating characters doesn’t fix it
So, I have built a real life set, alongside a simple clay bird puppet. I have taken a variety of photos, that follow this categorization: sitting still mouth closed, sitting still mouth half open, sitting still mouth fully openleft hand raised mouth closed, left hand raised mouth half open, left hand raised mouth fully openleaning in mouth closed, leaning in mouth half open, leaning in mouth fully open These images would be used for lip syncing, and doing it manually is an extremely tedious process.I have been attempting to import these images into character creator, and use keybinds to switch into those previously mentioned poses, while letting the auto-lip syncer handle the rest, but i have been having immense trouble. I am at the point where my puppet is moving in playback, but it is not doing any mouth movements. I really am not going to go step by step of everything I did, this is a hail mary to induce further conversation to potentially find the issue.
I am using Character Animator Starter 26.0 on Windows 11. After working correctly for approximately two days, live lip sync suddenly stopped working on some of the supplied Starter puppets.Red Dog was the puppet I had been using most and had been working correctly until the problem suddenly appeared. I subsequently discovered that several other supplied puppets are also affected, including Mark, Sebastian, Rin and Tull, while others including Lacy, Leonard, Maya, Sasquatch, Wrestler, Eyva Thorne, Bandit, Sam, Fin and Robot continue to lip-sync normally.The microphone is working correctly. Character Animator receives and records the microphone audio normally, and the same microphone input produces live lip sync with the unaffected puppets.The affected puppets are also capable of lip syncing correctly. If I export/record the speech and use Import Recorded Speech, their mouths animate normally. It is specifically LIVE lip sync that has stopped working.The camera is a Canon 5D connected th
want to use the pro version of adobe animator to test the camera effect in my assests , the problem is after i regester to my 7 datys trails. the pro mode do not work, how i can fix it ?
Hey all! I’ve been a hardcore user of Ch for years, and just recently ran into this issue. I was trying to import an (admitedly) large photoshop image sequence into Ch to use as a background, and the program crashed and apparently has completely corrupted the character animator file. Whenever I try to open the file I get some sort of “damaged project” popup and no option to do anything else. Even more confusingly, the popup is different every time. I searched around and it seems like one of the only ways to resolve this is to have someone from the Ch team ‘roll back’ whatever I was doing in the project at the time. Anyone available and able to do that for me? I have hours and hours of work setting up puppets and scenes in this project and would really love not having to do it all over again.
How do i open a premade puppet (Chad) in Ai and not Ps from the Home screen in Ch?
Hi,I have my character working and everything is set but I want to live stream now. (I'm on Mac OS btw)I have OBS but it turns out there's more to it.I've recently seen Okay Samurai's video on live streaming but it's from 5 years ago and the NewTek NDI Software and plugins are completely different all I could download was NDI Tools pkg.Now I have NDI Output but seems like I need a github download too called palakis/obs-ndi. However I can't find this.Is there any other easier solution? It's been 5 years can't I just straight stream my character from Character Animator to OBS?
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Can you bring Character Animator to the iPad? Even if it is Starter Mode to begin with that would be great, But, the Pro version would be better. Also, being able to import our own characters in Quick Actions in Adobe Express (Animate Characters) would be good too. Thanks!
My puppet's Position X/Y read 0 in Transform, with no keyframes and no Parameter Recording enabled on either. I can manually drag the puppet into the correct spot in the canvas, but the instant I move the Timeline playhead even slightly, it jumps back out of the canvas. I've ruled out: Transform's record-arm dot, Hub layer, duplicate Walk/Face behaviors, Cycle Layers, Smart Replays, keyframes, and Parameter Recording. What else drives a puppet's position that I haven't checked
See attached.RTX 5060 TiWindows 11 up to date.Drivers are up to date, I have tried gaming driver and desktop application driver.Every time I move the window, resize the window, or switch between stream or rig tabs the error pops up. It’s stopping me doing anything.
Hi everyone,I am using obs to window capture for my puppet into obs and then into my gaming lives. However I have a problem with using replays and triggers in that adobe character seems to require being the active window but when streaming I need to be in a different gaming window.
I used to be able to stream to Streamlabs obs at 60 fps no problem on previous versions of Character Animator but after the 3.0 updates it'll drop down to 10-12 fps when I turn on the stream option. I keep everything updated on my computer so I don't know that could be causing it to drop down in framerate. Even using the templates, the framerate drops.
I have a body group with 2 subgroups titled "torso" and "pants" with pants at the top. Inside the pants group, i have 5 sibling art layers. (top)Standing upright → Legs apart → Lean → Sitting → Bent Knees(bottom)I want to be able to press a single key so that the program will cycle through each version and only do so when I click that single key.I almost have this down, but it’s not quite right. Here’s what I have:I have the “pants” group set with a cycle layers behavior I think took that pants group, and create a single trigger so that when I click “0” on my keyboard, it activates the trigger. Then on each of the 5 art layers, I have “cycle pause” set up.This makes it so that when I click “0” the puppet automatically toggles/switches from “Standing upright” being visible to “Legs apart” being visible. And if I Click 0 again then “Legs apart” being visible toggles/switches to “Legs Leaning” being visible. So on and so forth.The problem is that this setup is causing the legs to be invi
My request is to add a toggle to turn on smooth interpolation on head movements set by “Compute Head Movement from Speech.” The default seems to be “Pose-to-pose” movement. And adjusting the percentage of pose-to-pose in the “Face” puppet track behaviors doesn’t affect the movements added by “Compute Head Movement from Speech” even though other behaviors do. For example, I can adjust the eyebrow strength or head tilt strength on that movement.It would be nice to either have a toggle for that smooth movement or for the “pose-to-pose movement” setting to actually work.
Hi everyone! I've recently been trying to using the Pro features for character animator but have had issues with my character animator account recognizing that I have the Pro creative cloud subscription. When I go into "manage account" on my creative cloud dashboard it indicates that I have a Pro account and that they have received my initial payment for the month but then when I try to launch character animator it says that I am still on the starter account... Any advice is much appreciated!
For some reason everything is perfect and working as it should except for when I try to fix problems with the 2-frame Take which simply bends the elbows perfectly reversed in this case. I am using: https://okaysamurai.com/puppets/2023/Sticky.puppet as my puppet. Thanks for any help in advance! If you know a solution, please do tell and be verbose as I am rather new to Character Animator, thanks again!
I have a character with earrings that have dangle applied to them. The dangle works great during recording. I have various “scenes” on the timeline where the character changes position on screen using hold keyframes. For example, one scene he will be on the right of screen, and the next scene he’s center screen.On every one of these scene changes, the earrings show a huge distortion for about a second until the dangle settles into the new position (see screenshots).I know this is likely happening because of the sudden change in position of the hold keyframes. Is there any way to avoid this distortion or a different approach I should use to implement these scene changes?With earring distortion after the scene changeCharacter as intended
I copied the base of the Tull puppet, replaced it with my puppet's movements and appearance, but suddenly its arms stopped moving, and its mouth didn't appear (the triggers seem to be working fine). And I can't get the voice sync to work at all (I tried with an audio track since I don't have a microphone or camera yet).Could I share my puppet so you can take a look?
While using specifically the motion library behavior my puppet head warps/ tugs while using the motion behaviors. The upper right side of the head is the only part that does not move causing the right ear to not move as well. I have watched numerous videos from Okay Samurai but it still is not working properly. I looked at the mesh layer to find a problem I’m not even sure what to look for lol. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am trying to record a scene for a pre-rigged Adobe puppet called “Cowboy”. The puppet comes with a number of shortcuts for poses and hand positions, for sad and angry and so forth. I was recording the gestures during playback without problem. Then I stopped to lengthen the cowboy track and the music track. When I went back to record, the trigger icons no longer worked. At one point, I got them to work a little -- but they only affected the bottom half of the character, while the full gestures should have the hands waving in air and so forth. In addition to this issue, I have had other times when the controls seem to have no effect for no reason that I can figure out. Where am I going wrong? In this case, I have made sure that the puppet track is selected and the control panel is in “perform” mode…. It’s just inconsistent. It will work for a while, then it won’t.
The electricity is out right when I was saving this file. Please someone help me recover it.Attached is the file.
When I go into record mode, the head is floating around when I use the motion library. I noticed when i click on the head it highlights the body. When I click the body it is still highlighted around the body; so it is double tagged. I even made sure that everything is named correctly. How do I fix this? Thank you in advance
when i try to creat a hand swap it wont show up a hand, and the idea is keep those hands as they are know and then when she lifts to knock it shows up a fist which i already draw
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