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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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Part 2: Rigging Character Art for Animation
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Part 3: Animating and Refining Your Scene

Adding physics and danglers

Being able to add physics to your rig is a great way to create automatic movement based on various factors. As an example, we can have hair bounce in reaction to what action the rig is taking. We can adjust gravity strength and direction. We can even enable wind and have hair or clothes flowing.

With our hair now ready for physics, we will need to add new handles to the rig. Given we learned about handles in the previous chapter, this process should be straightforward.

These handles will tag what we want to add physics to. Here, we will use Chaz’s hair as our point of reference. To begin this process, we need to perform the following steps:

  1. With Version 2 ready to go, click on the Rig tab.
  2. If Heads is not visible, toggle it on and make sure 3-4th Head is visible.
  3. Under the Chaz puppet, locate Hair in the 3-4th Head group.
  4. Select the crown icon for the layer to enable independence.
Figure 6.1: Hair will be set as independent (indicated by the crown icon)

Figure 6.1...

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