Rigging a 2D image in Photoshop for Adobe Character Animator

[stwoods]

Hi! I was wonder if anyone had a step by step tutorial for rigging (I believe that's the right term) a 2D image in Photoshop.

I have a single layer jpg drawing that I want to animate for my daughter. in Character Animator. I understand layers have to be created to isolate the various body parts, but what is the best way to do this in Photoshop 2020.

Anyone that has a step by step guide or link to a tutorial would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[Nancy OShea]

IMO, you should create puppets in Illustrator.  See tutorial below. 

https://graphicmama.com/blog/character-animator-illustrator/

[stwoods]

Thank you, Nancy. This is very helpful. But what if you want to turn an existing piece of artwork (a jpg or png) into a puppet. Is there a tutorial for that?

Thanks again!

[Ussnorway]

there are lots of tutorials for it and some of them are worth the effort

try this one https://graphicmama.com/blog/create-adobe-character-animator-puppet-photoshop/

p.s, understand the results you get depend on how good the image is that you started with which is why most animators use illustrator [its designed to make cartoon art]