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Real-Time Animation with Adobe Character Animator

Real-Time Animation with Adobe Character Animator

By : Chad Troftgruben
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Real-Time Animation with Adobe Character Animator

Real-Time Animation with Adobe Character Animator

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By: Chad Troftgruben

Overview of this book

Adobe Character Animator is a power app for non-animators that provides easy rigging and easy-to- understand tools that enable you to create entertainment or business videos in no time. This guide to Character Animator gives you a comprehensive overview of the app, helping you learn the entire process—from importing a character designed in Adobe Photoshop to animating a sequence. Complete with background art, multiple character rigs and Character Animator project files, this book will show you how to animate a scene in Character Animator from start to finish. Starting with a character PSD from another artist, you’ll organize and condense the file to prepare it for rigging and animation. From there, you’ll systematically rig the character while exploring advanced behaviors and triggers to animate a complex scene that takes advantage of the app’s best features. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create appealing animations in Character Animator for any purpose.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Part 1: Preparing Character Art for Rigging
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Chapter 2: Comparing Adobe Character Animator to Other Animation Apps
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Part 2: Rigging Character Art for Animation
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Chapter 5: Creating Control Handles and Behaviors
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Chapter 8: Refining Layers and Exploring Optional Rig Features
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Part 3: Animating and Refining Your Scene
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Correcting flaws and enhancing animations

While using the camera is a great way to lie down animation quickly, you may find some anomalies pop up. In our case, the character’s head is turning but the actions are random in duration and appearance. Don’t worry, this is where the script comes in. By using it as a guide, we can plan out when to turn the head and for how long.

So, to add refined head turns to Chaz’s actions:

  1. Go to the Record tab.
  2. Expand the CHAZ layer.
  3. Click on the take 4 - Camera Input sequence for Head & Body Turner.
Figure 11.29: Locate the Head & Body Turner behavior for CHAZ

Figure 11.29: Locate the Head & Body Turner behavior for CHAZ

  1. Remove it by pressing the Delete key on your keyboard.

We are now going to re-apply the head-turn animation. We can do this using the webcam or with triggers. But we’re only going to focus on turning the head. To do this, let’s break down Chaz’s dialogue and plan out when we should...

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