This tutorial walks through the new Physics behavior and other new features in the latest release of Adobe Character Animator CC. Learn how to use the new auto-attaching for faster character rigging, making colliding physics objects, new eye and eyebrow parameters, the pose to pose face parameter, clipping masks, the new fader and layer picker behaviors, and a few quick hits through features like timeline waveform display, pro viseme editing controls and walking toe bends. 0:00 Intro 0:37 Rigging Improvements 5:39 Physics Behavior 10:51 New Eye & Eyebrow Features 14:28 Pose To Pose 17:01 Clipping Masks 20:42 Fader & Layer Picker Behaviors 24:16 Quick Hits 28:32 Outro Part 1 covers the new Triggers and Controls Panels: https://youtu.be/1iS0gUoe1i8 Download Character Animator: https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html Download free example projects and puppets: http://adobe.com/go/chexamples (Official Adobe Examples) and http://okaysamurai.com/puppets/ (Okay Samurai Puppets) Get help on the official forums: https://adobe.com/go/chfeedback Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=okaysamurai Twitter: https://twitter.com/okaysamurai Facebook: facebook.com/okaysamurai Website: http://okaysamurai.com

This tutorial walks through the new Triggers and Controls panels in the latest release of Adobe Character Animator CC. Learn how to create triggers, swap sets, and a visual control panel. From how to convert old puppets to setting up MIDI controls, this video will get you up and running with triggering expressive, dynamic animated characters. 0:00 Intro 0:43 Converting Old Puppets 2:29 How To Make Triggers 7:05 How To Make Swap Sets 9:36 Merging Triggers 11:16 Triggers Panel vs. Behavior Triggers 14:18 Editing Triggers In The Timeline 16:44 Generating A Controls Panel 19:04 Adding Behavior Parameter Controls 21:50 Adding MIDI Controls 23:45 Controls Panel Recording 25:54 Outro Part 2 covers Physics, Clipping Masks, Pose To Pose Animation, and more new features: https://youtu.be/vVKmDLsnsiI Download Character Animator: https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html Download free example projects and puppets: http://adobe.com/go/chexamples (Official Adobe Examples) and http://okaysamurai.com/puppets/ (Okay Samurai Puppets) Get help on the official forums: https://adobe.com/go/chfeedback Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=okaysamurai Twitter: https://twitter.com/okaysamurai Facebook: facebook.com/okaysamurai Website: http://okaysamurai.com

Want to add some extra life & emotion to your creations in Adobe Character Animator CC? Check out these 10 advanced rigging tips, from using invisible eyeballs for more constrained eye movement to hooking up multiple parts to a MIDI-controlled dial. Hopefully there are at least a couple of ideas here to help take your puppets to the next level. The character featured here, Almasol, is available for free at http://okaysamurai.com/puppets/. Correction: In the shadows section, you need to tag both Head groups (normal and shadow) as Frontal for it to work properly - not just the shadow group as shown in the video. Sorry about that. 0:00 Intro 0:47 Alternative Mouths 1:44 Triggered Eyelids 2:21 Shadows 3:28 Master Vs. Optimized Artwork 4:01 Background & Foregrounds 4:30 Subtle Nutcracker Jaw 5:21 Invisible Eyeballs 6:13 Puppet Warp Cycle Layers Arms 7:06 Cycle Layers Timers 8:03 MIDI 8:49 Outro Download Character Animator: https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html Download free example projects and puppets: http://adobe.com/go/chexamples (official adobe pack) and http://okaysamurai.com/puppets/ (okay samurai puppet pack) Check out the official forums: https://adobe.com/go/chfeedback Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=okaysamurai Twitter: https://twitter.com/okaysamurai Facebook: http://facebook.com/okaysamurai Website: http://okaysamurai.com

This is a simple walkthrough of creating a basic character in Adobe Character Animator CC. After going through this tutorial, you should be able to create an animated character with head tracking, responsive eyes and eyebrows, realtime lip sync, and a body with draggable limbs. 0:13 Lesson 1: Learning the Basics 3:47 Lesson 2: Eyes and Eyebrows 7:46 Lesson 3: Mouths and Lip Sync 11:09 Lesson 4: Building a Simple Body Download Character Animator: https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html Download free example projects and puppets: http://adobe.com/go/chexamples (official adobe pack) and http://okaysamurai.com/puppets/ (okay samurai puppet pack) Check out the official forums: https://adobe.com/go/chfeedback Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=okaysamurai Twitter: https://twitter.com/okaysamurai Website: http://okaysamurai.com

We start this month with Mr. Brown (a character used across 3 different YouTube channels), and several intriguing experiments with Xbox and PS4 video game controllers as performance input devices. Then we answer your questions about import/export, spinning wheels, physics tags, and selection properties. We'll do a quick recap of Adobe MAX and show you how to get Dan Ramirez's advanced project and lesson guide, and finish up with a new technique to get great results with the nutcracker jaw behavior. 0:00 Intro 0:58 Community Spotlight 5:21 Mailbox 13:33 Advanced MAX Class & Project 16:01 A Better Nutcracker Jaw 20:22 Outro Show Links: Sketchflix: https://youtube.com/sketchflix Setsumei: https://youtube.com/setsumei KaijuKojo: https://www.youtube.com/KaijuKojo Xpadder: http://xpadder.com Auto Hot Key: https://autohotkey.com Pulover's Macro Creator: http://macrocreator.com/ Keysticks: http://keysticks.net Ocean Swift: http://oceanswift.net Look Creative Studios: http://digitalpuppets.co.uk PNG & WAV After Effects Script: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2402898 Dan's Advanced MAX Lab Project: http://adobe.com/go/chexamples Download Character Animator: https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html Download free example projects and puppets: http://adobe.com/go/chexamples (official adobe pack) and http://okaysamurai.com/puppets/ (okay samurai puppet pack) Check out the official forums: https://adobe.com/go/chfeedback Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=okaysamurai Twitter: https://twitter.com/okaysamurai Website: http://okaysamurai.com

This month starts with a great example of branding your Character Animator creations with Josh King's Little Top, a 23-minute South Park style episode, a colorful promotion for a children's building toy, and an interactive display with talking cartoon characters. Then we'll answer a couple of mailbox questions about working around an auto-attach bug and making strokes move. Finally, we'll show how adding extra behaviors like breathe and transform can give you a lot of additional control to your characters. 0:00 Intro 0:39 Community Spotlight 5:32 Mailbox 9:06 Adding More Control Via Behaviors 14:44 Outro Show Links: Little Top: https://facebook.com/littletop1SG/ Fitbathatba: http://youtube.com/fitbathatba Chris Ovemery: http://ovemery.com Brad Pig: http://facebook.com/bradpigofficial Download Character Animator: https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html Download free example projects and puppets: http://adobe.com/go/chexamples (official adobe pack) and http://okaysamurai.com/puppets/ (okay samurai puppet pack) Check out the official forums: https://adobe.com/go/chfeedback Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=okaysamurai Twitter: https://twitter.com/okaysamurai Website: http://okaysamurai.com

We kick the new year off with some amazing community examples - a live Twitch cartoon from Geek and Sundry, a live comedy art show from the Upright Citizen's Brigade, an updated head-turning version of the frog pillow Hector, a broadcast-length cartoon with multiple characters, and expressive animations from a dragon and bird. Then we walk through the different ways to customize the controls panel trigger icons, including a secret way to get custom icons. After a quick time-lapse of making a raccoon puppet from scratch, we'll finish up with fixing a broken puppet, touching on 5 places to look for issues and how to remedy them. 00:00 Intro 00:46 Community Spotlight 7:15 Custom Trigger Icons 11:28 Character Time-lapse 12:55 Fixing A Broken Puppet 21:34 Outro Show Links: Geek & Sundry: http://twitch.tv/geekandsundry UCB Comedy: http://facebook.com/ucbcomedy Victoria Nece: http://twitter.com/FakeGreenDress Nuketown: https://youtu.be/1K99u_u-eMU Look Studios: http://digitalpuppets.co.uk Download Character Animator: https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html Download free example projects and puppets: http://adobe.com/go/chexamples (official adobe pack) and http://okaysamurai.com/puppets/ (okay samurai puppet pack) Check out the official forums: https://adobe.com/go/chfeedback Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=okaysamurai Twitter: https://twitter.com/okaysamurai Website: http://okaysamurai.com

This month we start off with CH's primetime animated series debut, an educational safety video, a Cheap Trick fan's Instagram videos, and a hilarious storytime animator. Then I'll show a hack of the Walk behavior to get a scrolling foreground and background your characters can walk through. Finally, we'll dig deep into the preproduction process with a new upcoming project I've been hard at work on, Evan Flamethrower: Robot Detective. 0:00 Intro 0:39 Community Spotlight 6:33 Nuketown Camera Hack 10:32 Evan Flamethrower: Preproduction 23:28 Outro Show Links: OCP: http://sho.com nLyten Media: http://nlytenmedia.com Robb Clayton: https://instagram.com/respectzander GetMadz: https://youtube.com/TheMadz2012 Emerald City Comic Con: http://emeraldcitycomiccon.com CH Subreddit: http://reddit.com/r/CharacterAnimator Download Character Animator: https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html Download free example projects and puppets: http://adobe.com/go/chexamples (official adobe pack) and http://okaysamurai.com/puppets/ (okay samurai puppet pack) Check out the official forums: https://adobe.com/go/chfeedback Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=okaysamurai Twitter: https://twitter.com/okaysamurai Website: http://okaysamurai.com

Dig into the latest Adobe Character Animator tips, including community examples of a self-made broadcast TV animated show and a design tutorial narrator, tricks with using the new walk behavior like using it on multi-limbed characters or getting 3 views from one piece of artwork, a behind-the-scenes look at our recent "Meet the Team" livestream and how to set up multiple streaming puppets with alpha channels, and finally dissecting a complicated puppet with deep nested triggers and cycle layer timers. 0:00 Intro 1:21 Community Spotlight 7:28 Walking Tips 15:23 Multi-Puppet Livestream 18:31 Dissecting a Complex Puppet 32:34 Outro Show Links: Future Frank: https://youtu.be/12AE4lydank Look Studios: http://digitalpuppets.co.uk Design Dojo: http://designdojo.org Trustaff: https://www.trustaff.com/travel-nursing/celebrating-national-nurses-week-2/ Vendetta: https://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/1157812 NAB 2017 Talk: https://youtu.be/BdyW3O5hRoo Wirecast Live Interview: https://youtu.be/amAEImo7OWk Download Character Animator: https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html Download free example projects and puppets: http://adobe.com/go/chexamples (official adobe pack) and http://okaysamurai.com/puppets/ (okay samurai puppet pack) Check out the official forums: https://adobe.com/go/chfeedback Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=okaysamurai Twitter: https://twitter.com/okaysamurai Website: http://okaysamurai.com