Animating with Adobe Character Animator (2023 Edition)

Adobe Character Animator is a unique app that can produce animated characters with ease. With a few clicks to setup, you can control a cartoon character with your mouse and keyboard. Not only that, you can use your microphone and web cam to create true motion captured characters that come to life with a wide range of assigned behaviors. You will learn how to take all this and record an animation to be shared or edited with another app.

More specifically, in this course, you will learn how to:

• Properly layout a Photoshop character for easier Character Animator setup

• Tag layers for lip syncing and facial behaviors

• Tag and define body parts for limb movements

• Add special handles such as draggers to allow interactivity with the mouse

• Create triggers for hide-able layers

• Create Swap Sets for multi-phase layers, such as hand poses

• Auto lip sync in the application

• Lip sync using external audio

• Record a puppet using full motion body tracking

• Create a puppet that can turn their head and body

• Edit recorded actions

• Work with backgrounds

• Work with multiple puppets

• Learn about the Stream tab for OBS performances

• Edit your animation with Premiere and After Effects

• Export animations through Adobe Media Encoder

By the time you’re done with this course you should be able to lay out your own PSD based characters, properly tag, fix errors and animate them using your mouse, keyboard, face, voice and body.