2:25 I've been using this program for 6 years now and JUST NOW found out about this. Thank you so much for this, my work is about to skyrocket!

I'm going to need to watch this over and over to make it all stick in my head. Can not wait to see the final!

This is so awesome Dave! I can't wait to see the finished cartoon! :)

This is a great intro to VFX workflows and technique, through the animation mechanic. Awesome.

I always get so inspire after watch your video. I'm a big fan of your work! God bless you!

Absolutely pure outright awesome you do an amazing job teaching this incredible skill who would ever think how easy it is to make cartoon animations

These robots have a top notch design. Great work! Very inspiring

I am learning so much from your channel! Thank you! I feel like I can finally be creative in a new way!

Evan is coming along great Dave... another great episode.

Really nice work Dave! Thanks again.

Dave! Thanks to you, I'm having way too much fun with animation and all that good stuff!

This one's a great one! Nice work Dave!!!

Adding multiple dragger behaviours for the arm movement is such a helpful tip! I'm very much looking forward to the Evan Flamethrower series - the robots look so cool and fun!

Great episode as always, Dave!

Okay... After watching a load of you videos yesterday amd this today.. I have to have a go!!

The Evan Flamethrower scenes are GORGEOUS! Love the simple hints for adding particles and shadows - such quick ways to make the environment richer. Also, I really appreciated the tip for Command+click to disarm all the behaviors/settings to start recording. Seeing you tweak the nutcracker jaw settings AFTER recording made me realize I have way too many settings armed as my starting point for recording. Should only arm the settings I know for sure I want set in stone!

Espectacular intro

Wow so much creativity. Things are getting interesting now😉

Thanks as always! Dave! great vid

@Okay Samurai Hi Dave, It's me again. I am facing a problem with the lip sync process. I saw on the official Adobe Forum that someone have encountered the same thing in the past but his problem wasn't really solved (he found a way out that didn't works for me). I left a comment their asking what would be the solution but have not received any feedback yet. I thought that maybe I have to write here too. Briefly, when I make the lipsync using an audio file, everything works fine but the problem that the visemes dosent show up. Instead of getting all the detailed visemes I get a single block that I cannot modify. The problem is that the lip sync is not perfect and I want to modify it slightly by editing the visemes as you shown in your tutorial (I will probably use mic voice over for some sections and then edit some visemes manually for other sections). I tried different extensions for my audio file including mp3, wav and aif nut nothing worked out. I would like to point out that the guy who faced this problem in the past have succeeded to make it work using an "aif" extension but this dosent work for me neither. Any advise on that? Thanking you in advance :)

Such a helpful tutorial. Much appreciated.

Thanks, Dave! This has been super helpful.

You do such a good job with these. Your short is looking really cool, too.

Dayum Son!!! You are so high level! Thanks for the tutorials! made my first animation because of you :) Bless PS cant wait to see your finished story!

You are an amazing master teacher 🙌

Great job David!

Please keep it up me and my wife love playing with this software. I hope to upload some of our work soon

Thank you so much for this!!! Really addressed what I needed! 10/10! ;)

Awesome... thank you!!!

awesome man

Great video! Thanks!

WOW, wow, wow! This video is so insightful! Can't wait for the next. Question: How do you deal with scenes or close shots, I tried but character or scene pixelated.

Oh Dave, I am glad that you liked my content! :D Thanks for sharing and for the great tips, as always! :D

Thx! Tips&Tricks!

Excellent video and tips. Thanks for sharing

Dude u really inspired to do better animation thanks a lot bro

Great video. Really love that you are doing a production walk thru. Question: when you bring the puppets/scenes into AE is the audio for that puppet just the puppet audio or is it also the whole audio mix Down? I’m curious (and will rewatch because maybe you covered it and I missed) best practices for handling the audio. Do you bring the original mix down into AE as a reference for placement in timeline (where to place puppets in timeline)? Or do you only bring the background sound FX in as its own layer in AE and then each puppet is only its voice and then mess around with where the best timing location is for that puppet on the timeline? I’ve been importing an animatic of my storyboards into AE as a reference for where I am placing my puppets. I’m working with pre recorded audio (part of a documentary) but am curious how best to approach combining elements in AE when I get to work on an original, from the ground up, animation in CH.

That last part had got me shocked so well that I could use puppets rather than using recorded transparent .mkv into Adobe After Effects that requires Keying out the background that can lead to flaws and bugs. You made my day.

Nice! I’m really early too!

Thanks for the profile about my course, Dave. The free month of access (March 2018) is a gift to you, Adobe and your viewers.

cool stuff Dave. How would you rotate characters to different views like profile, back,etc?

You have taught me a lot and I am very thankful for these videos. Do you have one where you talk about the LIGHTS on the robot that are blinking and flashing??

Hi, love the videos, but I'm having trouble understanding how you are comping the various shots (zoom ins, close ups, back to wide, etc). are there any videos that dive more in-depth on that?

Thanks for the update Okay Samurai. Could not find the free course of mark simon, any links please?

Great videos. I've really learned a lot. How can we create a talking character that turns 180 or 360 degrees? Do you have a tutorial video for that? Thanks. Eagerly awaiting your response.

Hello Dave, Do you work for Adobe, if so I would love to see and buy a Classroom In A Book > Book on the Character Animator Software. I enjoy all of the tutorials of the software. Keep up the great work and thanks for all of the great information on your site.

FYI In Adobe audition a shortcut to mixdown a multi track session, just press CTR S or Command S for you Mac freeks.

Hey Dave, you guys are doing amazing work! I love watching your tutorials, they are to the point and really well done, you make it fun! So I'm just having issues with the physics behavior, collide and dynamic... it doesn't seem to be working properly, and always returns to origin and of course, if i press hold in place, it doesn't move at all... the gravity is high, bounciness etc.. I'm at a loss here.

This is great, CA is an amazing tool.

Can you do a more in-depth tutorial on how you get different objects to movie at different speeds to add depth to your scene in After Effects? I understand what your doing, but know exactly how you go about doing it

Good afternoon Dave, I wanted to ask you an opinion about buying a PC to work with both character animator and after effects. I have framed these two models: 1) MSI Nightblade MI3 7RB-016EU 2) HP OMEN 880-021NL In your opinion which of the two is more suitable to do 2d animation through the use of character animator and after effects? Thank you in advance.

Hi Dave, congratulations on your videos, I always follow you and I'm trying to learn how to use character animator. I would like you to explain how you can get complex behavior characters, such as a jumping. I tried to get the animation of a jump through the cycle levels triggered by a trigger and inserted in the level of the basic character. Unfortunately, however, the animation is not fluid and it is too fast. To get the jump animation I worked on illustrator of the different poses of the character but I think this mode is not suitable for obtaining an acceptable animation. You think it would be possible to use animated cc to create a cycle that is more fluid and credible (if so, it would be really great if you could show it in a video)? If you have time it would be nice to see a tutorial in which you focus on the possibility of inserting levels in the loop that reproduce the complex movements of a character (for example a jump, a somersault, a particular pose). Thank you so much for your extraordinary work. Congratulations for your new Evan Flamethrower project. Sorry if my English is not the best but I'm Italian: D

is there a way to give a layer/group that's inside of the body group a fix position where it's not moving at all but the others should still move around? i've a charakter where he sits at a desk and you can see the lower body under the desk and arms and uper body over the desk so the desk has to be between them in the layer structure but when i move my head around, the desk also moves a bit even i've made it independent and fixed...

Hi Okay Samurai, i'm currently making an animation for a work related project, i have one animation of my character waving, unfortunately it is a little too long of a clip, since it has to match other things in the video, is there a way to trim the take for example in the middle? like in Premiere where you can use the razor tool. I could record a new animation, but this one was really good, and i'm pretty new at this animation stuff, so it would take some time.

Hi, Dave! Love your video tutorials! I have a question regarding @ 29:50 #12. Creating & Editing Shots - Could you give me a brief explanation or direct me to a video as to how to do the closeup comps that you switch between in AE? Much thanks!!

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Question: How can I pin down a character's legs WITHOUT fix handles? The body swings when I move my head but I want to be able to walk on keyboard input without fix-pinning the feet to the ground. Thanks in advance for your answer and for the tutorials in general. And by the way: is it a bug that I often jump into the isolated layer view when I single-click on the layers in rig mode? That happens very often and is incredibly annoying. Regards, Denis.

Hello again. I was wondering if you always import a finished recording from Character Animator into AE or have you made a duplicate character and rigged in AE or ADobe Animator. I’ve been trying that route, and finding it very difficult to get original art work into either. If you know of any detailed video on these secrets would be much appreciated. So far only was I have found is to make a copy of character and then deconstruct everything to its own layer and then import into AE one layer at a time. Taking a while to say the least.

I have some suggestions for the app. But first i want to say i love it and the work that you and your team are doing. It is fantastic to have a tool like this to bring to life characters and play with them. The suggestions are focused more for live shows, like twitch.tv gameplay streams, and for the frame by frame animation tool. So lets start: 1) Possibility to create loops for the frame by frame animation tool. For ejample: I want to create a loop animation which has a transition from the begining to the loop and from the loop to the end. Now it is not possible. Imageine i want my character to claps his hands, you can draw just one clap animation and then loop it a number of times with Character Animator application. But if you want to see the character to put his arms from down to the clap position, then clap the hands, and after several claps, put the arms down again. You can't do it in just one animation folder. This tool could help us to make things like this with less resources. Because now, if you want to do it, you must draw all the animation, even the loop with all the repetitions. But with this tool, you can draw just the begining and end transitions, and just one clap. Configure it, tell the app in which frame starts the loop and from which frame return to the loop, and all donne. Even it would be great if we could configure the loop with a number of repetition, so the app repeat it this humber of times and then it goes out from the loop to finishes with the end transition. Or add the option to open the loop (go out of it) ussing the triggered animation key. 2) An option where hide (or untrigger automatically) one animation folder when it arrives to its end. Now if you don't pause the last frame of one animation which was triggered before, you will see how that character part will disappear untill you untrigger the animation folder. It happens when you have for example two animations in the same main folder and you configure each animation's folder to hide the rest of animation`s folders when you trigger it. For example: Imagine a character which is playing a main dancing animation where he just move its harms. Then you trigger a second animation where the character puts up its arms. But you want to return to the first dancing animation just after the second animation finishes. Just with one click, triggering the second animation, and without need to untrigger it to return to the first animation. So the character will stop dancing, puts up its arms and down, and keep dancing after it. All with one click. 3) Make the frame by frame animation tool to check if the main folders are activated before to start the animation. First, lest introduce the situation. You have a main folder, for example the Smile mouth. Inside this folder you create other folders for diferent smile animations and each one with its own trigger key which hide the others. Then, you configure the main folder to be showed when you are smilling to the webcam. So the aplication will activate it and will show one of the animations which is activated with the trigger key. But there is a problem. Now it works fine with looping animations. But if you have an animation which start and stop in the last frame, for example, a transition from the normal mouth shape untill the smille shape. When you trigger this animation it will run even when the main folder is not activated. So, when you activate the main one, when you smille to the webcam, your character will show the last frame of the smile animation. You will miss all the previous drawings. So, these are some suggestions to improve the application. I think they will be very usefull for live shows. Greetings!

Hey Dave! Thank you for your tutorials, I have a Facebook Comedy Page with 400K and today we are going to do a LiveStream as a Stand Up comedy show, reviewing viral videos, we are going to do this in real time, with wirecast,your videos have helped me a lot! Where can I send you the link after I do it?

do you use any voice morphing software or do you have other staff members help with that?

Hi Dave I like you tutorials. I want to use this software but don't a poweful system. Can you suggest a perfect alternative? I will be thankful.

Hi dave, just wanted to ask, I am really struggling with body gestures... I was hoping to create smooth transitions between different body poses e,g hands on hip and crossing arm...Do you think it is better to draw these poses then trigger them instead of using the draggers?

Is it possible to bring real live reference video into character animator. I am new to it, and think it would be nice, because i often ran into the problem that the movement didn't looked that good.

I have been looking for tips or tricks on moving backgrounds. Not sure if you have addressed this in a video but I can't seem to find it. would love to check it out. thanks!

hi , well I´d like to know about camera panning....I mean ...The camera´s movement...zoom in and zoom out ,Did you do this in character animator or after effects ? is it possible to do this just in character animator ??? I´m talking about this because in your Robot episode ...we can see this camera movement...thanks in advance...

Can I ask what is the app that get a record of the voice like the one you said? (Sorry if I don't said a bit great.)

Has he explained how he gets the loops like on his robot flashing light? Ive been trying to figure out how to get an object to animate on a loop so I can have it in the background. But im not having much luck.

What MIDI player do you recommend for Adobe Character Animator? It's unclear if the number of keys is at all important (do the keys work with it, too?) Thanks!

Okay Samurai Hi. Is there any chance to make CA action on my button pressing when it's not the active right now, for example, when I'm playing the game on the same PC?

The only thing that I don't like about these tutorials is that they assume that I want to build a character in illustrator from the shape tools. What If I want to draw them out? How do you build your character then? A tutorial on this would be nice.

Hi dave.. Is there any way to animate a character that is sitting in the car and driving by using adobe character animator..

I'm not sure how to contact you to submit a link/project for consideration for the monthly tips and tricks. Sorry to ask you here but could you reply and let me know where I should send my link? Thanks

Hi, can you do more tutorials on character designing ?

Can I use Adobe fuse to make character can I import it into Character animator

my character animator have been acting up lately..whenever i activate a trigger, it makes everyother layer in that folder dissapear. and this is regular trigger behavior not a swap set.i was working fine before

Can I use adobe fuse to make characters???? Can I export them to character animator

many thanks to mark simon

How to switch between happy and sad mouth groups when audio is compute lipsyn ?

Is it possible to compute lip sync to my sad mouths set, for a portion of dialogue only?

I can't get that second dragger to work. Anyone else?

How you zoomed into Evans and others in after effects

I have a problem with drawing characters and backgrounds can u just help us with that

What happend to the last video?

Does anybody understand how the step 12, creating and editing shots works?

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