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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

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

A

Adobe After Effects 34

capability, expanding 36

compositing 35

editing, with Dynamic Link 214

effective areas 34

grading media 35

history 34

motion graphics 35, 36

need for 214

toolset, expanding 36

using, with Character Animator productions 36

Adobe Animate 21

history 22, 23

Adobe Animate, features 24

drawing tools 26

frame-by-frame animation 24

symbols 25

alien guest

importing 175-177

positioning 175-177

alien’s dialogue

importing 179-181

lip-syncing 179-181

Animate

assets, designing 26

characters, designing 26

using, with Character Animator productions 26

Animate art

importing, into Character Animator 27-30

Animate content

exporting, for Character Animator 31-33

importing, for Character...