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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

Creating layer-specific behaviors

Let’s control the wind strength for two dangle-based handles. We already have these set up for the wrist and hair, so it’s just a matter of applying these specific parameters. To illustrate this, take the following steps:

  1. Click on the Rig tab.
  2. Click the Hair layer under 3-4th Head.
  3. On the right side of the screen, direct your attention to the bottom. Look for Behaviors.
  4. Click the + button next to Behaviors and choose Physics from the list.
Figure 6.9: You can add new behaviors by clicking the + button

Figure 6.9: You can add new behaviors by clicking the + button

  1. A new set of options will appear. Click Physics.
  2. New Physics options will now appear under Behaviors. These options should be identical to the ones we set when on the Record tab.
  3. Now set Wind Strength to 73% and Wind Direction to 1.
  4. Go back to Record. Notice how the hair is blowing up as we set it. But the hand is still being blown to the right, based on the universal...