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Adobe Character Animator Advanced Techniques
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Adobe Character Animator Advanced Techniques

The Next Phase In Motion Capture Live Animations
Created byDavid Miller
Last updated 10/2018
English
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What you'll learn

  • Expand animations with special advanced techniques
  • Exploit special vector art attributes
  • Manage invisible physics including collisions
  • Incorporate video loops
  • Use face tracking on prerecorded video and apply to a puppet
  • Create more expressive eyes with clipping masks and swappable emotions
  • Rig an animal for a walk cycle

Course content

4 sections • 22 lectures • 1h 33m total length

  • Introduction1:05
  • Cycling Video Layers6:24
  • Capturing Face Performances From Prerecorded Video2:38

    This lesson covers extracting a face performance capture in Adobe After Effects and applying it to your Character Animator puppet.

  • Emotional Eyes4:09

    In this lesson we build expressive eyes with a full range of movements.

  • More Eyelid and Clipping Mask Techniques3:52

    Here we cover setting "muppet eyes" and using clipping masks with cycling layers in non-eye areas of your character.

  • Illustrator Puppets and Wiggler3:41
  • Replays + Blending Takes7:10

    Learn to build and trigger complex animated sequences with replace replays and blends in Adobe Character Animator, recording actions, adjusting duration, and triggering with a single button.

Requirements

  • Adobe Character Animator, After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator are all used throughout the course.

Description

Adobe Character Animator is a motion capture software making use of your webcam, keyboard triggers and audio input to create puppets that can be animated live.  As it's a relatively new and growing program, there's a lot that the novice animator can do but isn't obvious or apparent from the control scheme. Advanced Techniques covers many of those tips and tricks, from making backgrounds travel to using video cycles to having emotive eyes with clipping masks and rigging an animal like a horse.  

If you're new to Character Animator, check out my Beginner's course on the topic on my Udemy course channel!

Who this course is for:

  • Animators who understand the rigging and recording process of Character Animator and are looking for unique methods of animation within the program.

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