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‎Nov 13, 2019
01:23 PM
My first thought was "right click?" What's with this new trend of all but hiding features? But, I looked and ... there is NO cog button. I right clicked all the other buttons which doesn't do anything. Finally, I clicked the menu button again and noticed, yes, there's a "legacy brushes" option so I clicked it and ... got them all at once. No folders. Geez ... what idiot made these decisions?
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‎Nov 13, 2019
01:18 PM
After wondering where the "Append Brushes" and "Replace Brushes" menu items were, I googled and found an article saying to click "Get more brushes" which ... I really shouldn't have to ... but the page doesn't have any of the links the article pictures. Who's stupid decision was this?
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‎Nov 11, 2019
08:18 AM
I don't know how or why but all of a sudden, after several days, it suddenly renders correctly. Directly from Cinema4D. I don't even want to say how irritating or frustrating that is ... because, you know, I'll take it.
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‎Nov 11, 2019
06:31 AM
I know Cinema 4D isn't an Adobe product but since it is integrated with AE and I'm trying to use it that way, I thought I'd ask here as well ... when I add a Voronoi Fracture to a prim or polygon with a texture, the texture won't render. Any ideas? Even if I import the C4D object into AE and render from there, the texture is missing.
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‎Nov 07, 2019
07:23 AM
Whenever I switch from my PC at work to my Mac at home, I have to relink all my files. Is there a preference I'm not finding for the paths to be saved as relative instead of absolute?
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‎Nov 04, 2019
05:40 AM
When when when when?!
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‎Nov 03, 2019
04:58 AM
I'm looking through documentation and googling as well but want to ask here just in case I don't find anything. Whenever I add audio, it lands at the beginning of the timeline. Is it possible to drop audio where I have the playhead/scrubber? It is SUCH a pain in the butt to move every single piece of audio because I have to find the last piece of audio (for another character) again -- which isn't easy because every piece of audio is a new layer -- yuck! -- listen to it and find the correct timing again. Actually, it's three times I have to place it: To drop it on the timeline. Drag it to approximately where it should be after the preceding audio After listening to that preceding audio, dragging it exactly where it should go
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‎Nov 03, 2019
04:50 AM
I'll be sitting here at my desk working with Character Animator for the next few hours and probably later today (and then tomorrow at the office) so if you want to contact me directly, you can email me your puppet and maybe we can skype through it and share screens to go through it. It does sound like issues such as overlapping puppet layers, handle locations, and/or layers in the source Illustrator/Photoshop file.
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‎Nov 01, 2019
07:32 AM
Every puppet I find in any tutorial or on the Adobe site only has some things ... like just a frontal view ... and, while I keep reading about how specific things need to be named and organized, I find some puppets that work perfectly well with slightly different naming conventions. Does anyone have or can direct me to a "complete" puppet I can model mine after or look at for working examples?
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‎Nov 01, 2019
07:24 AM
Should sticks touch the handles they are between? If not, how close should the ends of a stick be to a given handle?
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‎Oct 31, 2019
01:15 PM
Every time I try setting a Rotation keyframe to "2" x "360", it either changes the degrees to 0 or it also changes the "2" to either a 3 or 4. Sometimes, if I keep trying it will work but right now
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‎Oct 30, 2019
06:31 AM
Not silly. You don't have to do a whole new puppet. If it was born in Illustrator, it's super easy. Select the items that need to be "mirrored" and choose Object > Transform > Reflect and click COPY instead of OK. then go back into Character Animator where your new body parts should appear and you can just rig those for 3/4 or side view in the opposite direction.
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‎Oct 23, 2019
10:40 AM
I'm following the tutorial here: https://helpx.adobe.com/adobe-character-animator/how-to/create-walk-cycles.html Maddy appears in the Rig panel but won't appear in any scene I create. Any troubleshooting advice is welcome.
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‎Oct 22, 2019
07:59 AM
I've created several puppets but they all only have frontal view. When I try to put their Body and Head into a Frontal folder, all the images disappear in the Rig panel. Is there an easier way to update or copy the rigging without recreating it all for the Left Profile and Right Profile?
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‎Oct 21, 2019
09:51 AM
Like the other events, it's to share your work and stimulate your own creativity by creating something no matter how small once a day for the rest of this and all Octobers going forward. I just created a GitHub repo for it so if there is a cool tutorial or script you've written (if you create your animations using code instead of a timeline) you can share it there and maybe, in doing so, also participate in Hacktoberfest. Inktober uses the #inktober hashtag on instagram, so if you post an animation there, use the #animatober or #animatoberfest hashtag. Or both, they're free.
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‎Oct 21, 2019
07:18 AM
Each year, I participate in Hacktoberfest and this year I've been doing animations as sort-of participating in Inktoberfest ... I've been calling it Animatoberfest ... if I actually organized and promoted it as a mass fun thing starting next year, would y'all be interested? Just like this post or comment so I can guage interest. I'll also be mentioning it on my twitter (@sproutmeansgrow) and instagram (@haxorsaxor) with polls and stuff if you want to chime in there and maybe share it. I am REALLY SORRY if this counts as inappropriate self-promotion or anything ... this will never be a monetized thing and am so NOT an influencer ... just giving places I'll be talking about it so people can gather and contribute.
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‎Oct 19, 2019
08:16 AM
Yes, I did. There are two reasons this sort of thing happened (I had two similar issues at different times). TL;DR -- either A) you moved items in your AI file so the rigging no longer matches up or B) the layer names no longer match. Some background on my process ... I have two files for each character -- "Janet_InProgress.ai" and "Janet.ai". The "inProgress" file has all layers in it including Guides, experiments, templates, etc. and the "Janet" file only has the layers I'll use in Character Animator. When I'm done making changes, I usually would do a save as and delete all the extra layers. This time, however, I changed the size of the artboard in "inProgress" so, when I was done, I copied the relevant layers and pasted them into just "Janet" using the old layers as a guide so I could nudge the new ones into place (See A above ... if the layers move in AI, the rigging no longer matches) then deleted the old ones. However, also while in "inProgress" I'd started to create side views so (See B above) my Layer and Sub-Layer structure didn't match. I used to have "Head" and "Body" as main layers, now I had "Frontal" as a main layer with "Head" and "Body" as sub-layers. The only reason anything showed up at all in those first two screenshots was I didn't delete the old layers, I just toggled their visibility.
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‎Oct 18, 2019
11:46 AM
After I got my first puppet all rigged and awesome so when I tilted my head, the earrings dangled perfectly. Then I customized the mouths and the audio lip-syncing works perfectly ... but now when I tilt my head, it does this ... and this ... It normally, and used to always look like this ... What could I have done wrong?
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‎Oct 18, 2019
11:02 AM
Thank you very much. This answer along with the one about folder organization help a lot.
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‎Oct 18, 2019
11:00 AM
Thank you! I checked the prefs and output was going to the laptop speakers which I never use -- either my external speakers or my headphones are always plugged in. Neither of those show up in the prefs as an option.
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‎Oct 18, 2019
07:06 AM
Between exercise files from Lynda and other tutorials, puppets and templates I've downloaded and created, and all the project folders and embedded assets folders I have the same characters' files copied in multiple folders. I've accidentally deleted work on puppets and source files more than once. What is the recommended way to keep assets organized? It looks like when I use a puppet or source (Illustrator/Photoshop) file it gets copied into the project folder (but I swear I saw one linked to the original folder as well) and I think I've made changes to that one and later wondered why they weren't in the original.
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‎Oct 18, 2019
07:02 AM
I'm very new to Character Animator. When working on a new project, should I import the puppet or the illustrator/photoshop file?
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‎Oct 18, 2019
06:59 AM
I've placed my audio files (mp3) onto the timeline along with my puppet, selected them all and then chosen Timeline > compute Lip Sync Take from Scene Audio. The visemes and waveforms appear but when I play it, the mouth moves but I don't hear the audio. The audio plays in Audacity. What is it I am missing? UPDATE: I've now tried also exporting the audio as AIFF and WAV files (both 16- and 32-bit) but neither of those seem to work.
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‎Sep 27, 2019
07:38 AM
I know many organizations keep their documentation on GitHub so you can submit Pull Requests for corrections but I know Adobe's apps aren't open source -- perhaps the documentation could be? Or is there a wiki? I ask because I was reading the Adobe After Effects CC Help reference PDF and the sections I read, I noticed an error (a bit of instruction was incorrect -- it looked like someone copied and pasted a similar bullet point but forgot to change the text after they pasted it) and a sentence ending mid-sentence. It was something like, "You can find it in." and someone never got around to finishing it after, I'm guessing, they went to look for a title and/or link. I can find those things and give page numbers but I'd love to be even more help if I could.
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‎Jan 28, 2019
07:16 AM
My standard, default shortcuts keep disappearing. If I quit Photoshop and launch it again, they return but it's getting irritating.
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‎Dec 11, 2018
10:04 AM
I became a dinosaur when Steve Jobs killed my career by killing Flash. I was told jQuery was the thing to learn but ... no, not really. I've been adding other libraries and been learning After Effects (slowly). What have y'all learned and done to still create interactive animation? Jobs really killed the eLearning field. Instructional Design used to be the greatest gig in the world.
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‎Dec 11, 2018
10:01 AM
I have some old SWFs I want to play and screen-record but they won't play in any browser I try even if I enable Flash. There must be some way ... right? They're pretty simple ... they were just basic sites with the SWF in an html file.
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‎Aug 29, 2018
10:21 AM
There's no color set to the stroke and the stroke is set to 0. I can't get what looks like a stroke to go away. It is type converted to paths, obviously, for whatever that's worth.
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