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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

Further exploring triggers and swap sets

In some cases, you may find creating a visual interface within Character Animator to be more beneficial when using swap sets or triggers. Luckily, we can trigger actions beyond using the keyboard, if desired.

Creating visual controls for triggers

Here’s how we can set up a visual interface for our swap sets:

  1. In the Triggers panel, right-click on F Hands and choose Add to Controls Panel.
Figure 7.18: We can easily generate controls with Add to Controls Panel

Figure 7.18: We can easily generate controls with Add to Controls Panel

  1. Click the coffee cup.png layer in the Puppet panel while on the Rig tab.
  2. In the Triggers panel, right-click on the coffee cup.png trigger and choose Add to Controls Panel.
Figure 7.21: The Layout tab under Controls allows for a visual representation of your current triggers and swap sets

Figure 7.21: The Layout tab under Controls allows for a visual representation of your current triggers and swap sets

  1. The Layout view allows you to organize the keys. If you have a certain preference for how the controls...

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