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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

Working with Preset Actions

While you can make all of your character animations from scratch, preset actions are included to help you get your character moving. Walk cycles, running animations, and more can easily be added with a click of a button. Furthermore, you can refine these actions to make them more customized to the character in the scene.

In addition, we can add more than one action at a time to create a more complicated or dynamic animated sequence. Once we have looked at this, we will polish up the rig and correct any final errors that may pop up.

More specifically, we will cover the following topics:

  • Creating a walk cycle
  • Modifying a walk cycle
  • Mixing actions on the timeline

With that said, it’s time to open up Character Animator and get going!