Character Animator

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 

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?

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 

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!

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

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. 

Does anyone have a workflow for this yet?  I’ve seen a few comments saying you can use Claude and After Effects to help edit?  I’ve seen some Higgsfield and After Effects stuff but I’m looking for something specific for my editing workflow.For context I review movies using my animated character.Right now I’m using Character Animator Where I export my puppet and background into after effects.Once those 2 are in after effects I add the B-roll (from what ever movie im reviewing) and match it up to the right parts.My issue is thats it’s so much work, as I’m also adding in cuts to add sound effects and memes to make the video more engaging, but it’s a lot of editing takes me like 4 days sometimes, wanted to speed it up.Has anyone seen anything on this or have a good workflow?

Hello,  I created a custom illustration and having trouble getting the mouths to lip sync for me. I am new to character animator and hitting a road block here. Would love to know how others figured it out? I’ve created swap sets, tried meshing the body, a whole bunch and stumped. 

Hi, I’m pretty new to this, but I’ve been following a bunch of the online guides.  I’m working on my first character puppet.  It’s a supervillain character.  I was able to get an unmasked version (Overseer Puppet) imported with front and ¾ views and got it so that the head is attached to the neck and the neck stays put at the bottom so it naturally moves when the head moves.  However, I’m running into problems with the masked version.  He’s got a hood and I thought I had all the layers right, but the neck is bolted to the head and nothing I do seems to be able to pin the bottom down.  I’ve tried both with the hood (Overseer Masked) and without (Overseer Masked No Hood) and even though it’s rigged the same way as the unmasked head, the neck isn’t behaving right.  I’ve included my project file with (hopefully) all applicable media.  I did notice that when the hood is on, the neck picks up the layer behind it (per the contour).  My goal here is to have the hood attached to the head but pi

he zoom into the timeline is either centered on the play-head or I lose the cursor and it have to scrub to it. For a lot of changes it becomes a real bottleneck. Am I missing a trick?The ALT + mouse scroll isn’t the same as the - and = keys. It also doesn’t zoom in around the pointer. It isn’t working for me. Any hep would be appreciated. :)jb

Greetings Character Animator Community!I need some urgent help to make this Friday deadline. I recieved this error upon opening Character Animator.When the program attempts to open, this next error comes up.What has happened and what can I do? I haven't touched this software since last week, and the most recent thing I have done to my MAC was update the Ventura OS today with the most recent update this morning right before opening this project. This project is also being read off of an external G-RAID hard drive where it's lived for its entire life where no significant file or orginizational changes have been made. Is this a resolveable issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much!    

La marioneta sigue bien mis ojos, mis cejas, y también cada vez que hablo, se mueve todo menos los brazos y las piernas, alguien que me pueda ayudar? es muy importante para mi trabajo

To reproduce issue:create head with dangle property on ears add transform property to head in scene, create hold keyframes of 100% and -100% on head “scale x” to flip head as needed when head is flipped -100% “scale x” the ears with the dangle property will start glitching I’d love to be able to flip layers for head turns etc. in character animator without losing physics, thank you.

My absolute favorite puppets are the Cupcake, mushroom, and the flower in Adobe express but I can only download and use the Cupcake with all it's fun abilities in Character Animator. I would absouletly LOVE to be able to download and use the mushroom and the flower. My nieces and nephews LOVE them.  Hope to see it on the download page soon! Love the program!

The laugh set, which is independent and has cycle layers behaviour , was dragged to the swap set ‘talking’ group. When triggered it doesn’t cycle through layers it just shows one layer so looks static.

Hey guys!I can’t figure out why the Walk Behaviour isn’t working properly on my character; the legs separate from the body, and the Pelvis (which is in the Body group) won’t deform properly 

I can’t figure out how to get the torso of my puppet to move when I sway back and forth in the body tracking camera in record mode. The head moves but the body stays still. Please help! I’ve attached an image of my rig settings and how it looks in record mode. 

Yesterday, all the elements on my puppet worked. Today, one element, the left eyeball, only shows up with low opacity.I did the following troubleshooting: I made the eyeball a different color. Same thing happened. I moved the layer outside of the left eye section, and the opacity was normal. In photoshop, this layer is “normal.” Left and right eye are set up identically and the right eye is OK. I deleted the offending layer in photoshop, created a new one, and the same thing happened. I also tried not using a folder for that eyeball art, and just tagged the art as the eyeball. Same thing.I also rebooted my computer.Does anyone have any insight about this problem?  

Help! I am working on a project and I am unabe to import any new artwork! I keep receiving this error popup when importing an illustrator file.

I tried my puppet to a new laptop for Character Animator. While all the layer settings, including the different layers for head turning, are correctly labeled in Photoshop, (see first picture) when I import to CA, it’s a complete mess in the Scene. (See second picture). I assume the solution is to re-rig everything but I’m not sure how to do it. I fixed the arms so far to be draggable and bend correctly. However I’m not sure how to fix the mouth and head movements. Can someone please walk me through how to get everything back to look like the third picture I’ve attached?