That's fantastic to hear! Thanks!

Haha awesome, small world! The Dairy is the best!

CH saves automatically. It will be saved as part of your project, on the left side of the start screen. You can also export your puppet with the share icon in the upper right and choose "puppet."

Probably about 2 - 2.5 weeks to write and record the music, make and rig the character, shoot the footage, edit the video, animate the character, and add all the AE compositing.

Yeah my understanding of tracking is basically what I show here! I know there's so much more that is possible but I'm probably not the best one to share it.

Definitely, well you are a master in your category and that's more than enough! If anyone has any great links to share, please do so 😃 appreciates it in advance!

Good question about linking CH & AE characters...I checked out the video (great work as usual)! Yeah, this unfortunately isn't easy to do right now...I think your way of faking it might be one of the better ways to do it. I'm pretty sure there are a few ways to do it, but it's one of those things I'd have to sit down and experiment with to see what does or doesn't work...like I wonder if you could make the leash and collar in CH and then attach that to the dog in AE? Hopefully we can add better 4-leg walk support in the future as well, it's one of the most highly requested features.

Actually I was fooling around a little this morning and got a working quadruped inside CH, hope this helps a little. adobe.ly/37YLn82

@@okaysamurai Thanks Dave! I can only imagine .. once you ad Quadrupedalism into Ch I'm certain a new animal will be born! : I'm not just talking about being able to make 4 legged creatures walk. You'll be inundated with questions, You really need an assistant before you do this and if Adobe doesn't pay for someone to help you, I will be the first to advocate for you! :) As for your normal walk cycle, I don't feel like my Ladies walk like a True Lady yet... I'm grateful I can rig them in Ch and set them to do the walk cycle, and I can add Hip sway, but it's like they walk without an 'Easy Easy' and despite the changes I make, I can't make them look feminine enough Would love your teams help with this! In summary, I feel all tutorials for Ae and Ch are built for men, and male walk cycles. I'm not trying to be a feminist hahahaha, I'm just trying to animate my female characters.... I know you've done a lot of female puppets in Ch (which I'm extremely grateful of)...but I very rarely see other females animating their characters and the ones I've seen are normally working on male characters. I'm not pointing fingers, I just want to animate my characters the way they should be animated. In a more feminine style... A million Thank You's Dave!!! Honestly if it weren't for you my world would be looking a lot more 2D... I tried more than once getting into animation until I came across your tutorials. You not only helped me start working in animation, you are my all time hero!

Excellent feedback - I will forward your message to the team!

Check out the Linden puppet from okaysamurai.com/puppets and emulate him exactly - notice how the arm, guitar, and hand are set up in particular, and how dragging moves both the hand and arm.

Yep! That's pretty standard AE fare, you would just make a mask to isolate the visible part of the character. Look up AE masking tutorials on KZfaq and you should be set!

Not currently, you would need to dynamic link and go to Premiere Pro or After Effects for that.

A handle can't get added to the timeline by itself, it will need a recorded behavior to control it. So for example, when I add a draggable handle, if I record myself dragging that handle, its performance will show up in the timeline.

Yep, you can edit his Photoshop or Illustrator file by selecting the puppet in the Project panel in CH and clicking the PS or AI icon that appear in the bottom of the panel. Any changes you save in those programs will auto sync with CH!

Ok awesome! Much appreciated

Not currently - you can't import video into CH (yet). I would do this in PR or AE instead.

@@okaysamurai i hope you add it soon! I need to move my characters in a real time map :P Thanks for answering

Sorry to be offtopic but does someone know a trick to get back into an Instagram account..? I somehow lost my account password. I love any tricks you can give me!

@Achilles Duke Instablaster =)

@Jaxton Jase Thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site thru google and I'm waiting for the hacking stuff atm. Takes a while so I will get back to you later with my results.

See Sirr on okaysamurai.com/puppets, who has a stick you can have appear in his hand. This is how you would set this kind of thing up, with a swap set trigger.

There unfortunately isn't an easy way to do this outside of sharing the whole project for people to open in CH. We have seen some interactive displays where people make the CH scene fullscreen and do something similar. For the web though, you would probably be better off exporting a PNG sequence of a walk loop and importing that into something web-friendly. We would like to do more of this in the future though!

I like this guy a lot: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hp2XnJR1xMqxhIE.html - watch all the triggers they do with him, very cool.

Generally when you export a video, transparency will show up as black unless you use very specific formats. This is why we recommend doing the dynamic link treatment shown here, where you don't export anything and your character just shows up without a background.

Things will appear in the timeline only if they change. So if you don't drag it at all, nothing will get recorded. If you are moving it and it's still not showing up, let us know at adobe.com/go/chfeedback.

Yes, Animate should have a transparency export option - at worst you should be able to do a PNG sequence. CH can do this as well.

@@okaysamurai thank you so much!

Not yet, but it's high on our todo list. Arm IK is a starting point.

Yes, if Krita can save or export as a layered PSD or AI file, they could work in Character Animator or After Effects.

Hmmm, this might happen in in-app preview but shouldn't happen for the final render. If it is that's an issue - please post a screenshot or video to adobe.com/go/chfeedfback and we'll try to help you more.

In Character Animator, try File > Export > Video with Alpha via Adobe Media Encoder.

You don't want to export from CH, you just want to import the CHPROJ file into Premiere directly and you shouldn't see a black background.

I don't believe you can input your CH livestream into PR unless you recorded it and have a video file. The most common workflow is what I show here - record a performance in CH, import your .chproj into Premiere, and now you have it as an asset you can do whatever you want with.

Take a closer look at this character or the even simpler Martin from okaysamurai.com/puppets - that's the guitar setup you should follow. You need the back arm, guitar, and hand all in the same folder just like them. IIRC if the guitar is independent but the hand and arm aren't, the hand and arm will follow each other.

I talk about it a little bit here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aJ6fe6p8qr3KnJ8.html

@@okaysamurai Awesome!

For me, not recently! I do see it used every once in a while and will post them in our Community Spotlight episodes.

PNG export is a solid backup option, I just used it last week as well. The #1 reason dynamic link doesn't work is the two programs are different versions / mismatched.

Yes. If you import a .chproj file into Premiere Pro, it will also dynamic link.

There is 3D motion capture software out there, but I'm not familiar with any of them unfortunately! You could take a 3D model, bring its layers into a PSD file, and animate it through CH, like Digital Puppets did: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iNCEmqx20pqwg6M.html

See kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bdaXoMKmmbzPgZ8.html

Yes! Jessica Neistadt sometimes uses a character I made for her in exactly this way! kzfaq.info/love/rQH1Xtic1yyeCcusrhUsng

No, I only made him in AI. You could copy and paste his layers into Photoshop if you wanted - a little tedious and manual, but it's possible (that's what I did to make Chad and Chloe from the homescreen convert from AI to PS!).

@@okaysamurai Thanks for the reply, I will try that, wouldn't the puppet rigging have to be re-done if I did that. I will give it a go, thanks again