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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

Additional Character Animator Tools and Features

While we have covered a lot of what Character Animator offers, there are still more features to explore. At the time of writing this book, some of these features didn’t work within the planned workflow. Character Animator even introduced some features as the book was being written, which is a great example of how Adobe supports its products. So, we want to highlight these features as they can enhance your animations, save time, or even help you to perform live on a variety of streaming platforms.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Puppet Maker
  • Character Animator scene cameras
  • Tracking body movements
  • Tracking body turns
  • Using the Stream workspace