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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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