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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

Editing in Premiere

While After Effects is best used to create special effects, or even build animations, Premiere is best for piecing footage together, adding transitions, basic titles, audio, color grading, and much more. In this book, we will focus on a few basics and export the video.

To get started, be sure to have Premiere ready:

  1. Once on the Welcome screen, click New Project.
Figure 12.52: The New Project button is in the same spot in Premiere as it is in After Effects

Figure 12.52: The New Project button is in the same spot in Premiere as it is in After Effects

  1. At the top, name the project Chat_With_Chaz and choose a location on your computer for the Premiere files.
Figure 12.53: You need to create a project before any work can be done

Figure 12.53: You need to create a project before any work can be done

  1. On the bottom right, click Create.
  2. On the top-left Project panel, double-click to import the Chat_With_Chaz_AE_File file.
  3. It will then ask you which composition to import. Choose the second scene, Scene 01 – Chaz with Alien Guest/Chat_with_Chaz...