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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

What is Adobe After Effects?

After Effects has lots of applications. Many people don’t use it only for animation, but rely on its powerful video editing tools to create stellar pieces of media. In terms of functionality, it shares some similarities with Animate. But with After Effects’ wide range of uses, there are more tools and menus to rummage through. We’re just going to touch on some basics in terms of how these additional tools and menus can bolster Character Animator productions. In this section, we will cover the following:

  • A brief history of Adobe After Effects
  • The strengths of After Effects
  • Using After Effects with our Character Animator productions

A brief history of Adobe After Effects

Like Animate, After Effects started its life in the early 1990s, under the Company of Science and Art. Originally, the application gained attention for its use of layers, masks, and keyframes, with very humble beginnings compared to how big it...