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Character Animator Tips & Tricks (April 2017)
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Күн бұрынThis month, we highlight community examples with a 3D squirrel, a newcomer to Character Animator and After Effects making a children's web series, and a video game streaming police officer. Then we dive into some tips on tags and handles, recording arm and hand animations, and how to add a simple shadow in After Effects. We then show how to turn a 5-year-old's crayon monster drawing into an animated puppet, and finish with a (much requested!) Photoshop illustration tutorial.
0:00 Intro
1:18 Community Spotlight
8:31 Quick Tips
18:37 Character Animator For Kids
30:58 Drawing Tutorial - Intro
35:36 Drawing Tutorial - Photoshop
46:28 Outro
Links:
Digital Puppets: digitalpuppets.co.uk
The Weather Girls: / @theweathergirls
Five0Anth0: / five0antho
Download Character Animator: www.adobe.com/products/charac...
Download more example puppets: okaysamurai.com/puppets/ (Okay Samurai Puppets)
and adobe.com/go/chexamples (Official Adobe examples)
Visit the official forums: forums.adobe.com/community/ch...
Subscribe on KZfaq: kzfaq.info_c...
Twitter: / okaysamurai
Facebook: / okaysamurai
Website: okaysamurai.com
@yoyoemmyjo 7 жыл бұрын
LOVED the segment with your son. The kids' activity is such a great idea, and an amazing use for this program. Thanks for including that!
@funnysquirrel4u389 7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for showing my 3D squirrel Chico. With Look Studios Digital Puppets design and your videos, I was able to complete my first episode. Now, I'm onto the second. Keep up the great work!
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
Sure thing - thanks for letting us show off the puppet!
@funnysquirrel4u389 7 жыл бұрын
No problem. Anytime you want to show the 3D squirrel in action for your future videos is okay with me. From the second episode on, I will try to use some movie magic for his opening background scenes. I hope you like it.
@MsBeyourbest 7 жыл бұрын
Great video!!! Especially loved the police officer's character! 😍
@DigitalPuppets 7 жыл бұрын
Hey Dave, thanks for featuring the puppets we've been working on lately (3D Squirrel and Cop). Always appreciated. Another great ep with essential tips!
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
Of course - thanks for pushing the limits of what CH can do!
@DigitalPuppets 7 жыл бұрын
Hopefully in the next week or two we'll make that live interactive video with us having a puppet flying around the actual studio :)
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
YES.
@GuyEinhoren 7 жыл бұрын
Dave, The Quick Tips this month were just fantastic!
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Glad they were helpful.
@NTuneLabs 3 жыл бұрын
Very inspiring and making me excited to jump into Character Animator. I've been watching ALL of your videos to get a good grasp on things. I can tell you already that there is definitely so much more that you could cover... and I'll be looking out for them all. I'm just coming over after years of using Cartoon Animator from Reallusion. I think that if Character Animator ever adds the ability to add cameras and place things into 3D space without having to jump to After Effects, this program will be a game changer.
@kevinkittle9051 7 жыл бұрын
WOW.. I just started watching this, and I LITERALLY had my daughter draw a face so I could animate it two days ago!
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
Nice timing!
@inthekitchenwithmatt 6 жыл бұрын
Awesome, loving all of your character animator tutorials and hints and tricks!!!
@okaysamurai 6 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@inthekitchenwithmatt 6 жыл бұрын
You are welcome! I am almost done watching all of your vids, can't wait to start working on my cartoon! :)
@SteveMend 5 жыл бұрын
I got CC a few weeks ago for Premiere, but I can't stop using Character Animator! Addictive. As someone who started with white grease pencils on mag stock-- this is so much fun. Thanks for these videos. Very nicely done.
@okaysamurai 5 жыл бұрын
Awesome! You're welcome!
@andrewgoodman9165 7 жыл бұрын
This is my favourite Character Animator video of yours yet Dave! Really fun and enjoyable to watch every month with great tips, especially loved the part with your son, so cool! My son thinks poofy is funny lol (ps what a great art desk set up you have for him) Also enjoyed your drawing tutorial, good insight into your workflow.
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the continued support!
@TheQuasar_g 7 жыл бұрын
Great video as always! Keep it up and thanks for the hardwork :)
@pamelagessler6326 3 жыл бұрын
These animation videos are great for learning!
@imanelsayed1041 4 жыл бұрын
I Love That Video! I Also Will Always Watch The Parts With Ramirez And The Thing With Your Son With The Silly Stuff About Poofy! Very Nice!
@johndejesusreynoso4988 6 жыл бұрын
I really appreciate what you do!!! 🙌🙌
@ANGRYALIENSSHOW 7 жыл бұрын
Love your videos! Thank you!
@moonmountaincreative6691 7 жыл бұрын
Yah. I love this one cause his son is so cute! And great artist!
@Matadorstudio 7 жыл бұрын
I always had character animator with the cloud apps and never knew what it was gonna have to play with it
@gregfish6805 7 жыл бұрын
Cute segment with your son!
@ThePilbillyKnights 7 жыл бұрын
Great tips as always! Thank you!
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching! See you at NAB...
@hicksa1 3 жыл бұрын
Cameron is awesome! And so is poofy!
@moon-dh8od 7 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot
@oray4738 7 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for keep uploading these every month (: Very helpful and informative and fun to watch. I'm always having trouble remembering or knowing the correct names and signs (like the +).. I tried to google a good picture/table that shows all the correct layer names and order and couldn't find any (could be that i didn't look hard enough). Anyway... Was wandering if you know if there's a Jpg/PDF that shows that somewhere? (: Thanks and keep up the awesome work
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
There's a structure here without the independent parts: helpx.adobe.com/adobe-character-animator/using/prepare-artwork.html. Really the only things that have to have the + are the +Character group, +Left Eyebrow, +Right Eyebrow, +Left Pupil, and +Right Pupil. And this is a blank template: adobe.ly/2frsOOG
@jfiera4965 7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info, maybe you can do a leg movement tutorial using draggables .
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
There is one briefly: see the "Making Your First Character" tutorial - there's a section on recording limbs that shows a short walk animation with leg draggables.
@T2BusCrazy 7 жыл бұрын
HI, Great Vid as always. I'm sure this may have been covered before but I'm very new to CA so if you could point me to the right video or any tips would be useful. How do you get the pupils to stay within the eyeball area?
@T2BusCrazy 7 жыл бұрын
Okay Samurai Thanks for the advice. I tagged the pupil range tag to the the relevant eye group instead of the pupil and it fixed it 🖒
@rowbyrowby 7 жыл бұрын
Here's a tip and trick you can add to a video. When playing with behaviors, such as Walk, I suggest you use your cell phone to take a photo of the default settings -- before you start making changes in the settings. I will fiddling around with the walk cycle settings and really messed myself up. I was only able to fix it by deleting the behavior and then adding it again to the character. So now I make sure I take a snapshot first! ...Rowby
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Agreed, the way that the puppet default settings are different from the scene settings can be pretty confusing. We'll be working on it.
@reinart 6 жыл бұрын
Hey Dave, much compliments to this excellent tutorial. Especially I like your part for kids, what really is a wonderful entrance into working with Adobes character animation without any fear! Please allow me one question at that point: How the finished animation can be shared for example with an Android user or a windows pc. I did not find a way yet to save an .mp4 file ect. Thank you very much for an answer and say hello to your little partner he did a great job I'll show all my 7 grandchildren!
@okaysamurai 6 жыл бұрын
Thanks! So in the File > Export menu there is an option to send to Adobe Media Encoder. That's where you can export the scene out in a wide variety of formats, including an mp4 file.
@NoeShot 7 жыл бұрын
hi, i wonder is there another way without using camera to move puppet ? not the trigger i mean completly without camera. also kinda hope there more small apps just for the puppet since this adobe or other apps like facerig a bit need power , so it's become burden when use with with big games
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
Yes, you could turn the camera off and do everything with key triggers. And yes, I think a future where other apps can read .puppet files sounds great to me.
@funnysquirrel4u389 7 жыл бұрын
Hi, Dave! Do you have a ETA on the next Tips & Tricks video? 3D Chico Squirrel loves seeing the Community Spotlight and helpful hints. Thanks!
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
We'll resume again next month (June).
@funnysquirrel4u389 7 жыл бұрын
Sounds good. Thanks for the quick reply!
@howtohaunt 7 жыл бұрын
Nice! I have the exact same Wacom tablet. Funny!
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Yep, still remember buying it from B&H when I lived in New York. Don't have too much tech that has lasted 10+ years!
@EdOndoart 7 жыл бұрын
I also bought mine for almost ten years in NY, when I wanted to live in the US (I livein Brazil), but it's a Cintiq and I found it at a slightly better price in another store (I looked at B&H before). I just can not remember the name of the store now.
@heenalad9073 7 жыл бұрын
Hi Dave thanks for all awesome tips but can u make a video where u create your own background
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
Like how I draw my backgrounds? Sure.
@heenalad9073 7 жыл бұрын
Okay Samurai Yes and thanks for sharing your tips it helps me a lot
@princeofrandomallcoolstuff8943 7 жыл бұрын
I am also facing the same problem so can u make it as fast as possible
@brucejohnson2201 7 жыл бұрын
Interesting that FivoAnthO gets more pronounced mouth movement with a lapel mic. I wonder if the laviler mic is just a better mic and picking up a fuller frequency range.
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, typically the louder and closer the mic is sans clipping, the more accurate results the lip sync gets. It's an interesting experiment I hadn't heard of before.
@theloolpie264 7 жыл бұрын
U R the best
@Greg_Shulman 7 жыл бұрын
Hey Dave! Thanks for all the videos, they're great. Quick question: when you're in the puppet panel in character and you zoom in, how do you zoom back out? I can't seem to figure that out. Thanks
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
There's a little blue zoom number in the bottom right of the puppet panel. I also use option + mouse scrollwheel as a zoom shortcut.
@Greg_Shulman 7 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Love the videos, couldn't be more helpful!
@yitphady3787 4 жыл бұрын
Ya that good
@fcm3d 7 жыл бұрын
I'm over thinking everything.....ok I'mma force myself to send you something by the end of the month.
@nagymet 7 жыл бұрын
What does the 'getEvaulator' error mean cause I can't play my scene, I just get this error
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a bug. Post in the official forums if possible: adobe.com/go/chfeedback
@1SGLittleTop 7 жыл бұрын
Dave, which tutorial goes over having the head switch to profile view? thanks!
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
The Head Turns section of the Making Your First Character tutorial is probably the best place to start: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ldmdf7uAqbrIZok.htmlm1s
@1SGLittleTop 7 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@KennethShinabery 7 жыл бұрын
Have fun at NAB!!!!!
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Only my third time, but have really enjoyed it each year.
@ablerisingfromhell1175 7 жыл бұрын
plz upload a video of making Characters looks like 3d (Eg- The squirrel in this Video)
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately my 3D skills are pretty much non existent. But maybe Look Studios / Digital Puppets (the guys who made it) will put something up, they've been posting some tutorials in the past.
@johannamendez7742 7 жыл бұрын
Hello Dave can you tell me how to do a front view, like the view of the character, please?
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
You would just have to draw it that way in PS or AI - I make most of my characters at 3/4 view, looking slightly to the side. You would just need to adjust their facial features and limbs slightly to have them head on. On okaysamurai.com/puppets see Dude, Red Monster & Cassandra - all of them are front-facing.
@johannamendez7742 7 жыл бұрын
Thanks Dave for your answer, but I mean what it is watching, for example, if they are holding a cell phone or a book and you only see their hands and phone, as in the video the weather girls that you showed us. I also want to know how to move the puppet walking backward and forward, not left and right.
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
I think that Weather Girls episode was made before walk was added, so I believe she did most of that in After Effects. Currently the walk behavior is optimized for left/right movement, so to do towards / away from camera walks you'd probably want to do a cycle layers walk (like the Wonder Boy character from our examples page) and then scale him up/down in After Effects. Not an easy way to do it natively in CH (yet).
@jfiera4965 7 жыл бұрын
Why the legs don't move in the program ?
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
You need to add draggables like the arms (or cycle layers frame-by-frame animation) if you want legs to move.
@ablerisingfromhell1175 7 жыл бұрын
Sir currently i have privew version of Ch.A.There is a problem with eyeblinking. I d'nt know what is the error.You have any tips to avoid this issue while making the animation.
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
Check out these common eye issues: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r7afgbRlzs7Ycac.htmlm10s
@AymanBuffon 4 жыл бұрын
your son is cute =) god bless you both
@eladkalif3590 7 жыл бұрын
oh ye and another thing. can I control my eyelids with camera movement? and if no, will it ever be a thing? thanks.;-)
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
Yes - check out the top and bottom eyelid tags! I have a character called "Dude" in the Okaysamurai puppet pack (link in description) that has this.
@eladkalif3590 7 жыл бұрын
Okay Samurai thank you very much!😄😄😄
@travelwell6049 6 жыл бұрын
💖.
@eladkalif3590 7 жыл бұрын
hello there! can you help me for a sec? when I make an eyelid top to my character and look up the pupils go behind the eyelids and disappear how do I tell the pupils not to go behind the eyelids?
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
You need to either a) turn down eye gaze > camera strength, or b) instead of the full circle eyeball being tagged as the eyeball, make a half circle for each eye and tag those as the "pupil range" option for the left and right. Then the pupil will stick to just that half circle.
@eladkalif3590 7 жыл бұрын
Okay Samurai thanks!
@prachetass 7 жыл бұрын
Hi Dave I have installed new tek NDI plugin but I am not getting option of NDI in character animation...
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
Do you definitely have the latest CH (Beta 6)? If so NDI should show up in your live output preferences. You can also download the "NDI Monitor" tool from their site to make sure it's working. If it is and it's still not showing up, can you file a bug report at forums.adobe.com/community/character-animator/character-animator-bug-reports.
@prachetass 7 жыл бұрын
Okay Samurai yes i have updated character animator from adobe creative cloud ...in video monitor using scan tool i could mirror Character animator but it is capturing the whole app interface ...i have tried reinstalling ndi many times...but the plugin is not showing up in AE and CH
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
Hmmm weird, it should just show up like I show in the latest New Features video. If it persists please do file a bug report, that will help us narrow down what's happening and hopefully help fix it.
@prachetass 7 жыл бұрын
Okay Samurai Thanks ..I will file a bug report.😁
@Arabiscuits1 7 жыл бұрын
hey i really want to make videos like that on the FIve0ANth0 can you help me?
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
We have several tutorial or tips videos about live video game streaming, check them out.
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
Yes, look up AE camera tutorials - there's a ton of depth to them.
@Arabiscuits1 7 жыл бұрын
I would like to do the following 1) have open a PDF document file that will record on screen as I talk through it with my character 2) I would like my character to be in the bottom right of the screen talking through the PDF file. the final video would have PDF document and character at bottom talking through it - I may annotate with Wacom pen on PDF file as character reads or talks through it. Could you explain the process for doing this please?
@okaysamurai 7 жыл бұрын
Is this live or recorded? If live, bring CH & a PDF editor as sources into OBS, Wirecast, or other live streaming options. If recorded, just do a screen capture of editing the PDF while you talk, then import the audio into CH and do Timeline > Compute Lip Sync From Scene Audio. Merge the two in Premiere or After Effects.
@nouranhussien5569 5 жыл бұрын
And how to move the two arms in the same time And how to add the background and move it And how to save it And how to add more than one character
@okaysamurai 5 жыл бұрын
Check out okaysamurai.com/CHFAQ for answers to all of your questions.
@nouranhussien5569 5 жыл бұрын
Ok thank you very much
@nouranhussien5569 5 жыл бұрын
I can't find answers for my questions I want to ask you one question Can I add a PNG photo of a character not making a one Yes or no
@okaysamurai 5 жыл бұрын
Yes - you can import PNGs, but if you want to do things like have the eyes and mouth move, you'll need to make it into a layered PSD or AI file. A PNG by itself will move around with your head and/or drag the hands around with a mouse, but that's pretty much it.
@nouranhussien5569 5 жыл бұрын
@@okaysamurai ok but if the character photo is from the front can I rotate it
@willnut8610 6 жыл бұрын
i just realized that i accidentally disliked this video
@okaysamurai 6 жыл бұрын
YOU MONSTER.
@Dan-vo5nl Ай бұрын
Know this episode is kind of old, but it is still relevant. Thank you
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