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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

Summary

There is understandably a lot to take in with this chapter. The thing to keep in mind is there is no right or wrong process. If you feel the animation you created in Character Animator is sufficient, you don’t need to take the process any further. Using After Effects for simple or complex effects is a great option. If you need to piece clips together, add audio or other media, or even do some quick color grading, Premiere is the best pick. Having access to Adobe Creative Cloud has many benefits, including being able to dynamically link to all these files as you work. Finally, Adobe Media Encoder allows us to export in a variety of formats, as well as queue up multiple clips at once.

Next, we are going to go over some additional features that didn’t fit into our original workflow. This includes Puppet Maker, body turns, streaming, and much more!