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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

As you can see, setting up a rig in Character Animator can be a bit time-consuming. However, it’s important that we take the time to get it right. That way, when we animate, we can focus on the production and not have to work around defects of the rig. The good thing is you can retag, rename, and rearrange your layers as you see fit, and you can choose whether you want to make select modifications in Character Animator or Photoshop.

You can find the completed product of our work in this chapter by accessing Version 1 of the rig inside the book’s project file history.

Up next, we’re going to go further with the rig, test out some animation, and add even more functionality to the handles with various behaviors.