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Real-Time Animation with Adobe Character Animator

By : Chad Troftgruben
Book Image

Real-Time Animation with Adobe Character Animator

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)
1
Part 1: Preparing Character Art for Rigging
5
Part 2: Rigging Character Art for Animation
11
Part 3: Animating and Refining Your Scene

Part 1: Preparing Character Art for Rigging

Before we take our character and start animating, there are some considerations. First, it’s best to know how the app works, and this chapter will highlight key points. When it comes to art, our character’s layers will need to follow a specific pattern. Character Animator works best when you name layers as well as organize groups a certain way, which you will learn. Photoshop will be featured heavily here, as it’s the best choice for organizing .psd files.

This part includes the following chapters:

  • Chapter 1, What You Need to Know Before Rigging and Animating
  • Chapter 2, Comparing Adobe Character Animator to Other Animation Apps
  • Chapter 3, Preparing a Character Rig in Photoshop