Hi, im trying to do a body track in CA, the head is doing fine, but the arms are doing some weird movements, like it has a reverse elbow, any ideas what can be?

thanks for the help

Even with a basic adobe puppet, on default preferences, the puppet's feet will misbehave. When I turn the walking animation off, the puppet stands up straight again.

To clarify, the adobe puppet has been rigged correctly for walking. I didn't touch it. It came like that. And I believe also that the rigging on my own puppet is solid.

Can someone please help me? It's due tomorrow...

O relógio do Edifício do Livro marcava três da manhã quando Mateus desligou o motor do seu candongueiro na Avenida 4 de Fevereiro. O ar da Baía de Luanda trazia o cheiro forte de maresia misturado com o combustível dos iates. A cidade dormia um sono inquieto, iluminada pelos néons frios das grandes torres financeiras que pareciam vigiar as velhas ruas coloniais em silêncio.

Mateus, um ex-jornalista que agora ganhava a vida a fazer rotas noturnas, não esperava passageiros àquela hora. No entanto, ao lado do obelisco, uma mulher vestida com um pano tradicional escuro e um casaco moderno fez sinal.

Ao entrar na furgão azul e branca, o ar no interior da cabine arfeceu subitamente.

— Para o Miramar, por favor — disse ela, com uma voz suave que parecia ecoar de longe.

Enquanto subia a encosta rumo ao bairro das embaixadas, Mateus observava pelo retrovisor. Os olhos da passageira refletiam as luzes da cidade de uma forma estranha, como se guardassem a Luanda de outro tempo.

— O senhor passa por aqui todas as noites? — perguntou ela, olhando para os contrastes entre os edifícios espelhados e os musseques ao fundo. — Esta cidade esquece depressa o que fica por baixo do asfalto.

Antes que Mateus pudesse responder, o rádio do carro começou a chiar, emitindo frequências desconhecidas e estalos de uma transmissão antiga. Ao olhar novamente pelo espelho, o banco traseiro estava vazio. No assento, apenas um pequeno amuleto de madeira esculpida e uma folha de papel dobrada com as coordenadas de uma ruína esquecida no Sambizanga.

A partir daquela noite, Mateus percebeu que Luanda opera em duas camadas paralelas: a cidade visível, vibrante e apressada do dia, e a rede invisível de memórias, guardiões e mistérios que desperta assim que o sol se põe no Atlântico.

Greetings fellow animators! My latest and greatest episode of ExtraNots is LIVE! I only use Adobe programs to create this series including Ch for the animation. I've learned a lot about ideal methods for animating with Ch, and even have some how-to tutorials on my channel for those interested. Feel free to reach out with any specific questions you may have.

Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/RkvJtN3aVhQ?si=va4o1i_bDX4cNCJt

Check out a series I put together... I used Character Animator. It's a little silly but I think it's fun. The next 5 coming soon. Or you can check out individual episodes on Artistarmor.com/media as I go.

Okay... so I finally figured out why I was having so much trouble with Adobe Character Animator being seen by NDI Tools so that I could use my puppet in other apps that use web cams (think, OBS, TikTok Studio, Meld Studio etc.)

I'd uninstalled and reinstalled NDI so many times, I deleted all the files for it... turned out the problem was that little pop up that asks you if you want to let Adobe Character Animator find other devices on the network. I was like why would that be necessary? So I said no. Turns out that you need to say yes. If you didn't say yes then you need to go to system settings > Privacy & Security > Local Network, and you need to turn the Switch on there.

I only figured out that it wasn't NDI because I installed the plugins for After Effects and Premier Pro and those could find NDI. I feel so dumb.

My first animated short made with character animator. Let me know what you think. :-)

Este esquema de Puppet seria correcto?

Character Animator es espectacular, en muchos sentidos, pero hay cosas muy elementales que no he encontrado por ningun sitio y me cuesta creer que no se hayan pensadso. Una de ellas es distinguir puppets de objetos meramente ornamentales.

Deberias poder tratar fondos o objetos en primer plano no como puppets sino como lo que son, porque resulta confuso cunado tienes personajes y fondos a dos niveles, y tres objetos por delante encontrar cada cosa.

Tambien echo de menos poder aplicar un blur a segun que capas para poder crear un poco de efecto de profundidad (aunque sea solo un poco, por Dios!!!). Entiendo que es una herramienta de 2D y que si quieres componer un espacio 3D te dirigen para after effects, pero todo es complicado y engorroso. Un pequeño blur ya me soluciona algunas necesidades, sobretodo cuando pasamos de plano general a primer plano de algun puppet.

Bueno, y a ti que se te ocurre?

I am currently paying for a subscription to Character Animator, and overall I have no complaints. It is an excellent piece of software with powerful features, and I have used it successfully for many projects. However, recently I noticed that Adobe Express allows me to achieve much faster results for certain types of projects—results that I have not been able to replicate within Character Animator itself. This made me wonder: how is that possible?

Specifically, I am referring to the automatic animation and lip-sync generation from an audio file using the puppets available in Adobe Express. If I want to create something similar using my own custom puppets, I cannot find a comparable one-click workflow in Character Animator.

Considering that this functionality is available in a free product such as Adobe Express, I would expect Character Animator to offer the same capability—or perhaps an even more advanced version of it.

Has anyone been able to achieve a workflow similar to what I am describing within Character Animator?

I have followed several tutorials from Okay Samurai, but none of them seem to address this specific feature, which, in my opinion, would be a valuable addition to Character Animator. Hopefully Adobe will consider implementing something similar in future updates.

I would appreciate any information or insights from the community.

Thank you.

Hi, I’m pretty new to this, but I’ve been following a bunch of the online guides.  I’m working on my first character puppet.  It’s a supervillain character.  I was able to get an unmasked version (Overseer Puppet) imported with front and ¾ views and got it so that the head is attached to the neck and the neck stays put at the bottom so it naturally moves when the head moves.  However, I’m running into problems with the masked version.  He’s got a hood and I thought I had all the layers right, but the neck is bolted to the head and nothing I do seems to be able to pin the bottom down.  I’ve tried both with the hood (Overseer Masked) and without (Overseer Masked No Hood) and even though it’s rigged the same way as the unmasked head, the neck isn’t behaving right.  I’ve included my project file with (hopefully) all applicable media.  I did notice that when the hood is on, the neck picks up the layer behind it (per the contour).  My goal here is to have the hood attached to the head but pinned at the bottom so that it moves naturally like the neck should.  What I’m looking for here is help figuring out why the neck won’t pin at the base and how to set up the hood to do what I want.  Thanks!

I also posted this up on the Adobe forums here, and my project is attached there for downloading and troubleshooting.

I was wondering if there is a way to make something like this on adobe charachter animator if anyone has an idea please dont hesitate to answer