Hey All, I updated Character Animator this morning and suddenly my dragger handles for wrists and heels have stopped working when my character is in profile view (frontal view seems to be working fine in some puppets.)  Anyone else experiencing this and/or has a fix? Much appreciated! ... View more

Hey everyone,   I'm working on an episode of a cartoon with lots of characters and one complex (animated) background -- all vector. I inserted all the audio and did all the lipsync so it's currently around six and a half minutes long. I started recording dragger movements for the different characters and CH keeps freezing and crashing. I guess that this is probably because my scene is too long so I'd like to split it into smaller parts, but I don't want to have to redo the audio and lipsync.   Is there a way to split one scene into multiple usable parts?   And what other things can be causing the crashes and how can I fix that? (I'm pretty sure it's not my computer.)   Thanks! ... View more

Hey, I'm currently putting together a large scene with multiple characters and a detailed background all created in AI and put together in CH (I'm not sure if this is the best way, or if I should really animate each character separately and then bring them one by one into AE, but that's a separate question.) I want to be able to zoom in on the characters' faces when they talk, etc.(i.e. filling a 1920x1080 screen) with the scene showing in the background, so I've sized my scene background vector files as large as they can possibly go and set the raster effect to 300 dpi, but understandably, this is slowing things down drastically. How large does a vector file actually need to be to retain sharpness when zoomed in? I saw an option somewhere about importing the file at 400%, but I can't seem to find it again and I'm not even sure that that's applicable in my case. This seems like a simple question, but I haven't found it yet on the forum, so I apologize if it's been asked before. I plan on using the camera to zoom so that the characters stay at the same size/position relative to the scene and each other. I don't know if that affects my question. Thanks for any help! ... View more

Hi again, I'm working on a non-traditional character that has no legs and is attached to the wall. I'd like it to be fixed in place in two spots (the nails) and have it have just a little bit of movement everywhere else to give it some expressiveness. It currently bulges slightly around the eyes, but I'd like it to be more like a slight and smooth movement around the fixed points. Can this be done? Here is my current structure: Thank you! ... View more

Hi all, I've got a character for which I've created a front view, right quarter, left quarter, right profile, and left profile view, and assigned each one in the proper face/place. I've set the walk behavior to work with arrow keys. When I hit the right arrow key it walks with the right profile, but when I hit the left, it switches to left quarter and the walk looks funny. What's the manual way to set which view I want it to use for walking? I've also got another character that I have a front, right and left view for and when I set front to be the default view, when I set it to walk right, the front view drags along on top of it, but if I set the default to either left or right, it walks fine, and I just have to remember to manually trigger it back to front view when standing. Not the end of the world, but if I can manually set/fix the views used by walk, I think that would solve this issue as well. So, can I control what view the puppet uses when walking right or left? Thanks! ... View more