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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

Comparing Adobe Character Animator to Other Animation Apps

Adobe Character Animator is unique and comes equipped with features that are accessible to newcomers to animation. But Character Animator isn’t the only animation app out there. In fact, if you’re accessing Character Animator through Adobe Creative Cloud, you also have access to Adobe Animate and After Effects. There are also apps from other companies that offer unique features.

If all of this software can create animation, why choose Character Animator? Can you use more than one piece of software? To help make this easier to understand, this chapter will cover the following:

  • What is Adobe Animate?
  • What is After Effects?
  • Other popular animation apps

The focus of this book is on Character Animator, and so we will only cover topics necessary for working in the app. If you don’t have access to Animate or After Effects, don’t worry. Any files we create with these apps in the...