Character Animator
Getting Started in Adobe Character Animator CC
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
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Character Animator Tips & Tricks (November 2017)
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
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Character Animator Tips & Tricks (December 2017)
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
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Character Animator Tips & Tricks (January 2018)
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
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Character Animator Tips & Tricks (February 2018)
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
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Character Animator Tips & Tricks (June 2017)
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
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Character Animator Tips & Tricks (July 2017)
This month’s community examples includes a script to get your visemes showing up in an After Effects timeline, an explainer video, 2 simultaneous puppets and a couple of expressive game streaming characters. Then we’ll showcase the puppet Jim Cramer used on TV for a Mad Money interview, and finally jump into some quick tips with front/back arm swaps, the secret semicolon key, and the difference between puppet and scene parameters.
0:00 Intro
0:54 Community Spotlight
9:13 Quick Tips
14:28 Outro
Show Links:
LJ Visemes: https://gumroad.com/larsjandel
Modern Money Basics: http://modernmoneybasics.com
Look Studios: http://digitalpuppets.co.uk
Nibbles: http://mixer.com/nibbles
Cazzler: http://twitch.tv/mrcazzler
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
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Character Animator Tips & Tricks (August 2017)
Fresh back from San Diego Comic-Con 2017, we look at a great full body swap character from the community and an NDI-supported streaming option for PC called VMIX. Then we try out the Elgato Stream Deck to make custom heart, flamethrower, and head opening key triggers for Evans the Robot. Finally we do a recap of Comic-Con, including a closer look at the free superhero example puppet Crimson and how she does frame-by-frame arm animations (puppet warp in Photoshop) and lighting effects (simple cycle layers animations with the add blending mode).
0:00 Intro
0:54 Community Spotlight
4:31 Stream Deck
6:27 San Diego Comic-Con Recap
7:52 Crimson: Puppet Warp
11:56 Crimson: Lighting Effects
14:03 Outro
Show Links:
Adil Khanna: https://www.instagram.com/adilkhanna/
Look Studios: http://digitalpuppets.co.uk
VMIX: http://vmix.com
Look's VMIX Tutorial Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XFUObU65yGM&t=118s
Elgato Stream Deck: https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/stream-deck
Adobe Video World: http://adobevideoworld.com
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
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