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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

Remember, we require none of the previously covered apps to animate cartoons with Character Animator. They can enhance your production and with Animate and After Effects being available on Creative Cloud, it doesn’t hurt to have some extra knowledge. Just remember the following:

  • Animate is great for traditional animation, such as frame-by-frame
  • After Effects allows us to add effects and polish to our productions
  • You can use the previously covered apps with Character Animator, or vice versa
  • Other applications have their own strengths and may be useful if the Adobe apps aren’t a good fit

In the next chapter, we are going to begin our Character Animator production by preparing a PSD-based character for rigging!