Advanced Rigging: Monster Camp (Adobe Character Animator Tutorial)

[@christianpedrovalkonen6346]

This was one of the best tuts yet!! I've been studying hard like a good boyyyy!! Thank u so much Dave and gang!

[@Vobo-Ghure]

Learned a lot of advance tips from this video..... I already learned the basics from "start here" playlist.... This was really helpful..... Thanks a lot and keep making advanced puppet explainer videos like this and Tull the cat or Leeta.....

[@ArianaChica]

Thanks for these great tips... I'll go back and check everything on cycles and triggers, so I'll try to replicate some movements later.

[@josephnorman8184]

Brilliant exciting use of Ch! A great tutorial, thanks

[@HavekAttacketh]

I have to say that I am so thankful for your videos! I have wanted to do animation since I was a kid and through the years I have gotten into film and motion graphics and special fx and have only played with animation. I came across your video and have started working on my very first animated short! I will throw on your videos simply for inspiration when I am working! love love love it! keep up the awesome work my dude! I know a lot of us really appreciate. it!

[@UnrivaledFX]

Dave is the MAN!! Okay Samurai is the go to for cartoon toots he has the best cartoon tutorials!!! I Love CHaracter animator and use it in all my cartoon videos! The techniques i've learned are thanks to watching you Dave! Keep making tutorials they are awesome!!!!!

[@joshb1679]

He really is! I like his sense of humor.

[@ElectroPuppet]

Brilliant! Love the flickering flames on the face. Really places him in the scene. Another fantastic tutorial from the master :)

[@yu9234]

You did a great job for the voice acting.

[@theunboxedcat6055]

THank you for having compitent tutorials.

[@r3dstudios811]

I was just trying to figure out how to have my arms show up in front of my face when I stream. Thanks for the tips!

[@wood1595]

This is awesome, I am just getting into animation and so I am binge-watching your work, Thanks Dave for your insightful videos.

[@Boodlebobs]

Dave. Glad to see you back after a long summer. Luke :-)

[@ILLFortune]

Need more advanced tutorials. Thanks for the video!

[@DexterMonster]

Great tutorial and well structured as always. Thanks Dave!

[@danielmunsaka2051]

Would it be possible to make a tutorial on the glowing effect of the fire? Like how to make it come to life with how its move as the fire moves? maybe the same kind of effect but say for when a character is looking at a phone screen in the dark you know what I mean?

[@okaysamurai]

Probably not going to make a dedicated tutorial to it, but the "Linear Dodge / Add" blending mode is the best way to do this. If I were making the glow of a phone, I would draw in a PSD a separate layer of blue smudges over the highlighted areas, blur it, and use the linear dodge blend and adjust transparency as needed.

[@VacFink]

Thanks Dave! Very clear and understandable. I was hoping we would have more complex tutorials soon and you never disappoint. I really appreciate the timeline and key frame posing details, and look forward to giving that a try! I hope we'll see some external physical controller options soon. I've tried a couple MIDI options and haven't been successful, getting the application to recognize it isn't easy nor are there many resources for support. Ideally having them accessible on an external tablet or phone's touch display would be ideal. Kudos to you and the entire team for all the great work. Its really come a long way!

[@Raging_Granny_Gamer]

hi, were you able to download the puppet? there was no puppet when I downloaded the file. ?

[@VacFink]

@@Raging_Granny_Gamer I was, I believe its available on the OKSamurai's own page and the adobe page CA page in the link.

[@Raging_Granny_Gamer]

@@VacFink yes. I downloaded it, but the file didn't work

[@VacFink]

@@Raging_Granny_Gamer I use PC vs Mac so that might be a difference.There are a number of files in the .zip file. You might make sure your not opening the wrong version (mac or pc) or accidentally opening justone of the meta.data files adobe uses in the background to store the selections. I'd make sure your putting all of the files in the same place, because you need the meta files and the photoshop files for editing. Hope that helps.

[@Raging_Granny_Gamer]

I've downloaded his puppets before. They should be puppet files, but they are not this time. But thanks

[@NateandNoahTryLife]

These videos have really helped me get into animation!

[@SAINTFILMS]

Hello Dave, do you have an efficient tutorial for head and full character body turns?

[@okaysamurai]

Not really - I have an old one for head turns - kzbin.info/www/bejne/laTQfYuFebmXbLc.

[@HohaDesign]

Hi! thanks a lot for all of the tutorial. I am 3D animator and has wondering why on earth 3d doesn't have all of those feature yet... 1 Question I was running into is how to make the arm (sleave) still behind the torso but the hand can go in front of it? Was trying to figure out but can't...

[@okaysamurai]

You have to pick one or the other - front or behind. See kzbin.info/www/bejne/baHKnpKrabueh80 for more info.

[@HohaDesign]

@@okaysamurai Thanks. Then maybe I will have to cheat with the layer order a bit and cheating mask then :) lovely tutorials thank you a lot.

[@TheAnimatedHistory]

extremely helpful!! i recommend everyone to follow your tutorials👌👌👌👌

[@CulpamlandExtra]

rumo my channel wouldn’t exist without this guy!

[@JoffreyOak]

@okaysamurai you may get this a lot. How did you make the fire in the back. Do you have a tutorial? Did you make it in Ch or Ae?

[@DesignDojo]

Excellent - as always.

[@TheWeatherGirls]

Ohhhh, such a great tip on how to split a Swap Set recording and just scrub the timeline and select the tigger you want. Yeesh, why didn't I think of that?! I have such performance anxiety about timing things that it makes me nervous to start recording sometimes!

[@CamiloMonsalve]

Thank you for this tutorial! I have a question: How can I know What Handle is corresponding to the left arm, right arm arms, or left or right leg? I've got confused about selecting the right handle because I don't find a way to change the name of the handle. I mean, every handle has the same name.

[@okaysamurai]

It's hidden, but you can change the name of a handle by selecting it and pressing enter.

[@CamiloMonsalve]

@@okaysamurai I've entered 3 parts: 1. The rigging mode on the properties panel, 2. The place where I need to see the name change is in this screenshot of the timeline. prnt.sc/vwxyd8 3. In the record mode on the puppet behaviors prnt.sc/vwy0di I've clicked the names of each area, hit enter in these places and nothing happens. 😢

[@okaysamurai]

You need to select the actual handle (circle icon on the character artwork) in rig mode.

[@pavelhudec863]

What is the best place in the internet to get some fire/smoke/water framebyframe templates in psd. format?

[@okaysamurai]

I used to use a place called "POW Studios" that was an indie game studio that had PNG sequences, but they went out of business unfortunately.

[@chuntahanpa]

So complicated but so awesome!

[@Arcezo]

When I do the export, the arms are straight and stretched as I did not put bones, and yet during my animation the arms are correctly articulated, it is only on the file export

[@okaysamurai]

Export should always match what you see in the scene. If it isn't please post screenshots or videos on adobe.com/go/chfeedback and we can try to figure out what's going on in more detail.

[@ليلىوعلي-ف5ح]

Hi, is it possible to add video background inside my project animator project?

[@okaysamurai]

Not yet - for now you will need to go to Premiere or After Effects for that.

[@PlanetGrape]

Thanks so much! I just started on a new puppet and this detailed tutorial has been so helpful :)

[@RandomRobo]

This is really cool. I'm struggling with incorporating character animator with blender at the moment. I'm just at the basics, I think I need to look at more tutorials

[@okaysamurai]

I haven’t tried integrating the two but I’ve heard of people who have! Good luck!

[@zzoozzoolove]

Awesome! Awesome! It's really good video. Thanks ^^

[@t00bed]

Wonderful, in depth look at Character Animator. Just started playing with it after a good few years of After Effects. I have wanted to do character based animation and while it can be done in AE, it can be painful, require extra plugins etc. I can see that CA, with it's dynamic link into AE will be a much better workflow. Looking forward to actually making something with it. Thanks !

[@CartoonApocalypse]

Hey! Awesome video! I have a question about the Replays Pose System. Whenever I create a new pose replay with a Hand change or a mouth change, the swap lasts for the length it was originally created for (The original replay length) but then flips back. So if I make my character have a sad mouth in a replay, a couple seconds after it is triggered the mouth goes back to being the smile. The same thing happens with the hand. I have not been able to figure out why this is. Do you have any ideas? I can always go back and re-adjust the length of the mouth and hand but it does get tedious after a while. Thanks!

[@okaysamurai]

Yeah, replays and triggers can be tricky and I think there are some bugs around this area too. So the way replays figure out how to start/stop (and I probably should have mentioned this in the tutorial) is where the first and last blend handles are. But triggers can sometimes keep playing and ignore the blend starts/stops. For Sirr's poses I got him to work by always making sure the length of the trigger takes were the same as the the other dragger/face/etc takes. So maybe give that a try and see how it goes. If it keeps being an issue please DM me on Twitter and I'll take a closer look and try to help!

[@CartoonApocalypse]

Okay Samurai Thanks so much! To fix my issue I just copied and pasted everything except the trigger to another section of the timeline. Then I just flipped my hand/mouth again and hit the Record 2-Frame Take button and it just created a trigger take in the timeline. Then I just fit it to my arm movement and it was all fixed! Your channel has been super helpful so thanks so much! We all appreciate the hard work you put into your videos! ❤️

[@JamalQutub]

Is it possible to have the Controls panel appear in the MacBook Pro Touch Bar? That would be amazing and it might make me get a new laptop.

[@okaysamurai]

Not yet, but that’s a great suggestion! You can also use external devices like xkeys or stream deck or monogram creative console which can do some similar stuff!

[@mayakh4312]

Hello, How are you?.. Is there any way to make triggers number more than Keyboard buttons number? I used all Keyboard buttons and still have too much behaviors to make with character I made

[@okaysamurai]

Right now no, it's just the standard alphanumeric keys. You could always just use the controls panel in the app, which doesn't rely on keys, so you can just make as many clickable buttons as you want. If you have an external MIDI device you could add a ton more keys to that as well.

[@mayakh4312]

Thank you very much ☺️

[@aluckyshot]

This program is so awesome even a random non artistic chump like me can make some cool scenes. Thanks for all your shares Samurai Sensei!

[@jacquesgoudreau7594]

Your tutorials are amazeballs!

[@howtohaunt]

Love the humor and dialogue!

[@deboracinti9469]

I love it. Thank you! It is the best tutorial

[@incmeccabox]

1:45 Save me Blake Shelton! Save me! In a good sense, that's soooooo funny!

[@heyheysister7379]

For the second time, triggers and replays I've set up are now not working. In the Replays panel, the replays are in orange and when the mouse is on top, it shows the dragger and trigger numbers, but also says "Replay has no trigger." However, all of the triggers are still listed as they previously were in the panel. How are these replays getting disconnected from the triggers and what can I do to prevent this?

[@okaysamurai]

Replays could get disconnected in a few ways, either by changes in the rigging or puppet artwork, or manually editing or deleting a replay from a trigger in the triggers panel. Are you continuing to rig / edit the puppet while doing replays? That would be my first guess....if it persists, please post a screenshot, video, or File > Export > Puppet (.puppet file) to adobe.com/go/chfeedback for more direct help.

[@heyheysister7379]

@@okaysamurai Thanks for responding. You're always so good about that. What's weird is that the replays worked fine in the current version of CH. The replay disconnects were only in the Beta... Here's a link to the video for what it's worth...kzbin.info/www/bejne/in6WlqqCf7V9j5o

[@blackwomenspeak1]

Awesome tutorial... if you delete the original triggers will the replays still work? Are there specific things that the blend works on.. I highlight a take and it never adds a blend when I choose it. It tells me to select a take that can be blended... Also is there a tutorial that discusses adding to new scenes? Thanks as always for your assistance.

[@okaysamurai]

Blends will only work on certain takes, yes. For example, a trigger or mouth viseme won't blend because it's more of a binary on/off signal, not something that is moving like the face or draggers. Adding to new scenes should be covered in the original "Getting Started" video, in part 4 I think.

[@blackwomenspeak1]

@@okaysamurai Thanks. :)

[@rockeguitarra]

Hehe, so funny. Love it Dave. Got inspired her with the magnets that I just a while ago tried out with a man picking up an Ipad. It's a suche nice thing to be able to do :) God job with this tutorial and the story so funny ;) Best Sara

[@ericgoodman38]

Hello Dave, is it possible to create a clipping mask using video?

[@okaysamurai]

Sorry I somehow missed this comment - not in Character Animator, but yes in After Effects - look up how to make a mask in AE.

[@ericgoodman38]

@@okaysamurai No worries, thanks for the reply.

[@famousfoxclips]

how do you create that flicker effect from the fire's light?

[@okaysamurai]

I just drew a 2-3 frame group of orange light, adjusted the transparency, and added it to the head and body. Then I added the cycle layers behavior to automatically run between the frames continuously. If you download the puppet and dig into rig mode you should be able to see the groups and how they were set up!

[@famousfoxclips]

@@okaysamurai ah that makes sense! thank you!

[@jo.da.6240]

Thanks, amazing tutorial! I was just wondering: how did you set up the manual Pose? Just record stuff without recording Handles? And then they remain draggable?

[@okaysamurai]

Yeah, IIRC I basically just made a blank trigger and that became a manual option since nothing else was taking over!

[@jo.da.6240]

@@okaysamurai aaah that makes sense! Thanks!

[@jo.da.6240]

@@okaysamurai omg I finally got it, it was so easy! Thanks! Step by step I'm figuring this all out ;)

[@1deplatt]

This was great. Is there any other videos aside from yours about CA? I went through all of yours but still want to dig deeper.

[@okaysamurai]

Tons! adobe.com/go/chtutorials has most of them organized pretty well!

[@am119]

dave i get a thing in character animator where my backround doesnt show plz can someone help me

[@okaysamurai]

Import an image, then drag it into your timeline and under any other puppets and it should show up. Download the Sirr example here and you should see the mountains background in the sample project as a guide to follow.

[@am119]

Thank you so much I can finally create animations 😁😊

[@am119]

And everything is working thx to u but when I want to download sirr it downloads but then doesn't load up character animator and I'm on windows 10(and can u check out the vid I made using character animator on my channel a few mins ago)

[@am119]

Sorry for this now

[@okaysamurai]

In Character Animator go to File > Import and open up the chproj file in Sirr's unzipped folder. That should work.

[@AD-hs3hy]

Thanks for the good information

[@lilsad6ix560]

how do you get the flame to constantly loop for live streaming?

[@okaysamurai]

Use the Cycle layers behavior and and set it to "continuously." Check out this if you need more info: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jau8e5WQjs2ro80

[@lilsad6ix560]

@@okaysamurai TY so much

[@thunderblade6715]

Question - If I want to create 3 puppets, all of which have the same components...is it possible to do all the Rigging on 1 Puppet, then copy the Rigging to all of the Puppets?

[@okaysamurai]

Theoretically yes - if you select a puppet and click the blue link on the right, you can select a new artwork file to replace it. So rig one puppet, duplicate it in the CH project panel, click the link, select the new replacement character, and as long as the components are the same it will work.

[@v.s.a3826]

Hi Dave! Can I get that nice bluish, reddish and purplish watercolor texture. Please.

[@okaysamurai]

I just did a search for "watercolor texture" - I think it's here: www.freecreatives.com/backgrounds/watercolor-texture-background.html

[@v.s.a3826]

@@okaysamurai Thank you.

[@longstoryshort9828]

Is there a way to change the frame rate? I have my audio imported into character animate and only need the lips but when I render, it always renders 24 fps and I need it 29.97 so of course when I import into premier / after effects, the render is shorter than what I need it to be. So I end up stretching the lip sync, but then that ends up not syncing up well with the rest of my footage.

[@okaysamurai]

Select your scene in the project panel and you can change the framerate in the right. When you dynamic link to AE or PR it should keep that framerate.

[@longstoryshort9828]

@@okaysamurai OMG! THANK YOU!!!

[@CrankWavesbackupchannel]

Is there a way you can make Sirr touch his face with his right hand?

[@okaysamurai]

He can if you switch to the manual controls, but because of the layer ordering his hand would go behind his face.

[@heatherk134]

These tutorials are so helpful. Thank you!! Do you have information on how to control rotation sliders from a mac pro touch bar? I think the guys that created the viking with the axe said that they controlled their sliders from the touch bar. My characters arms are on rotations sliders, so this info would be super helpful. Thanks again!

[@okaysamurai]

Yeah, I remember them (zookeeper studios) saying that but I have never personally done it! They like to hack stuff so my guess is they made something custom or are using some third party tool to make it work. If you can find Dusty Gridley online somewhere he can probably tell you how he did it :)

[@freelance50]

I get it, it's clearly explained and shown here. Thanks!

[@owlstation355]

Super helpful, thank you Okay Samurai! :D

[@laskosgeorge]

@Ok Samurai is it possible to tracking hands also using Kinect?

[@okaysamurai]

Not yet - hands are done via dragging the mouse or fingers on a touch-enabled device. We hope to open up to more input options in the future!

[@AamirBilal]

Yaaay! A new video

[@sairishab]

Hey iam a big fan of your videos love how you explain everything in details just want you something can you teach me how you do the color grading or water color effect, on your puppets

[@okaysamurai]

See the tutorial "Advanced Rigging: Leeta" on this channel, it shows how I do all the texturing (with clipping masks!). I also talk about this in general in the "How I Draw Robots" video on this channel too (when I add the metal texture as a blended overlay).

[@sairishab]

@@okaysamurai ok! thank you

[@ai-man212]

You guys are building the future of animation. Kudos! Just give us the ability to layer performances, so one person can do everything without compositing. I want to be Rick AND Morty, just like Roiland AND Harmon AND the entire crew. lol. You can do it. You've proven that. I smell AI infinite posing extrapolation coming. ;-) The ability to choose any perspective/scale/position on the fly. Automatic complex character creation...just a matter of time, Morty!

[@murthadao]

NICE ONE

[@zed2960]

Just wondering was the transition @0.37 done in Character Animator or in After Effects?

[@okaysamurai]

After Effects. For this video I did the puppet performance recorded in CH, but everything else - backgrounds, editing, effects, etc - was PR and AE.

[@zed2960]

@@okaysamurai Ok thanks. Would be cool if you could make a video on when to animate the scene in Character Animator vs. when to instead do the editing and camera movements in After Effects maybe for more flexibility. Thanks again for taking the time to do these tutorials.

[@tutorialesjac7258]

that was amazing work

[@anmolrai4674]

Can I use this puppet for my KZbin story telling channel?

[@okaysamurai]

Yep sure!

[@RaleighWorld]

Hey! Great Video! Quick question. When creating triggers would I need to redraw the character in the pose I want to trigger? Like if I wanted my character pointing. Would I just draw the hands pointing or do I need to create a new character with pointing hands? Thanks

[@okaysamurai]

No, luckily you just have to redraw the hand! In Sirr's case he has one arm but several hands in a group inside that arm. Then all the movements and expressions are done by recording performances and/or other triggers like in the face simultaneously.

[@RaleighWorld]

​@@okaysamurai Thank you! One more question, please? So im trying to set a trigger for my character were he crosses his arms when I press a button. The button works but I can still see the other hand and arm layer when I trigger the crossed arms. How can I get the other hand and arm to disappear when I trigger the cross arms?

[@RaleighWorld]

FYI . I created new arms and hands separate from the main arms and hands.

[@okaysamurai]

To make something disappear, it's usually best to put it in a swap set in the triggers panel. In swap sets only one thing can show up at a time, so if both hands/arms are in there as separate triggers, only one can show up at a time. The "Triggers" tutorial on this channel goes into swap sets a little more.

[@RaleighWorld]

@@okaysamurai Thank you sirrrrrrrrrr!

[@ekiamedia2403]

Hi Okay. How do I make the wheels of car to rotate?

[@okaysamurai]

I'd do that with rotation keyframes. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6SvXoGQZZWEl68

[@ekiamedia2403]

@@okaysamurai Thank you so much for the quick replay but I have been trying now for the last two hours and it is very difficult to understand. Will keep using After Effect I guess.

[@okaysamurai]

Yeah, AE might be better for this kind of keyframe-specific animation.

[@blackwomenspeak1]

Is there a tutorial that discusses the behaviors - specifically wiggler ?

[@okaysamurai]

There is not, but this page should help explain all the behaviors: helpx.adobe.com/adobe-character-animator/using/behavior.html

[@pandamontok8524]

Is this software purchased together with adobe animate?

[@okaysamurai]

Both are part of the Creative Cloud "All Apps" package.

[@francisjoses224]

Hello Dave! Been following your tutorial on Ch! You’re really cool! I hope you can help me. I tried making my own puppet, the body part part still keeps on floating even though i pinned with the stick tool already, i don’t know why it’s still happening. Hoping you would see this. This is a big help for me.

[@okaysamurai]

Hard to say for sure without seeing the rig, but usually if something isn't responding to fixed handles it's because it's independent (crown icon) when it shouldn't be. Try removing independence and see if that helps. If not, try posting your puppet or a screenshot to the official forums for more direct help!

[@jackcreeper5685]

Dude!, Dave! Replay Triggers are where it's at. Thanks for this great tutorial. We've been using CA since it was Animal & our cartoon has evolved. We will be using these techniques in episode 9 of Creepers to give our character more emotion. Keep Rockin' these great tutorials! Is CA going to have a presence at MAX this year?

[@okaysamurai]

Thanks! Yep, I'm teaching 7 classes at MAX this year!

[@ppowell1212]

Great job.

[@alig4169]

Sir In this advance animation tutorial how to hold objects in hand

[@okaysamurai]

In this tutorial I showed that I had a layer where the hand is holding something, and then I just trigger it whenever I need it. Download the Sirr puppet from okaysamurai.com/puppets and see how his arm is set up.

[@professor6643]

Please make video audio lipsing character animation.

[@Ehsan-the]

Just what i wanted😊

[@laskosgeorge]

Hey Mate... GREAT JOB... How can i contact you?

[@okaysamurai]

@okaysamurai on Twitter works!

[@ScaryStoriesNYC]

SIRR the burnt ones are the best ones!

[@mountainofyeses]

You're awesome! Thanks!

[@zthewolfdog]

Hi Okay Samurai! Thank you so much for making all these Adobe Character videos! I hope I can become good at making them one day...

[@KoMaruyama]

@2:23 "Sirr is a relatively complicated character. He's got fur that wiggles around." Me: looks at Mr. Less. Yep. Checks out. 😂😂😂

[@okaysamurai]

Indeed!

[@mehranali4719]

SIR will more videos like this for advance animation comes for us in future

[@okaysamurai]

Hopefully so!

[@tiaan_va]

Will you ever, like ever ever make a full tutorial of creating a puppet from scratch without using a template? Like I get why you do that, to make it easy for all the noobs and such, but in the real world of animation you rarely get to make your own characters or puppets. Usually you work in a team with a dedicated designer, who in most cases are outsourced and it's impractical trying to teach each one exactly how to make a character compatible with CA (Character animator). So what I as an animator end up with is a character design in some neutral stance, from which I have to break them down into parts myself and organize and rig from there. So can you just do a tutorial like that? Take a random character design, all combined into one layer as you will get them from your designer or from a stock site in some cases, and walk us through the process of getting that design ready for CA. That is the single most important tutorial I think would ever exist for CA imo.

[@okaysamurai]

This is a good idea, and yes, I should do something like this. For now, the best one is the Fresco tutorial, which creates a character from scratch part by part and then does the organizing in Photoshop: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4C4nJuPbNubmZY

[@Raging_Granny_Gamer]

I looked at the puppet I downloaded but it is not a puppet file... it's a CHaracter animator file with 0 kb. I think this may be the reason there is no puppet that comes up. ?

[@okaysamurai]

All chproj files are 0kb, so that's okay - it's just an empty container really. If you go inside Character Animator and go to File > Open and select that chproj file, it should open.

[@Raging_Granny_Gamer]

@@okaysamurai Hi, I did that - but the file is empty. There is no puppet. In the past I believe the downloaded files were .puppet files.

[@okaysamurai]

I just tried it here and it worked. Make sure you are updated to version 2.1.1 - that's the latest and that's what it was made in. The ZIP should be the same setup as any CH project, with a chproj file and two folders, Ch Media and Ch Data. The chproj file references those folders to work so they all need to be in the same place.

[@Raging_Granny_Gamer]

@@okaysamurai thanks. I have creative cloud and I think my version is up to date, since it doesn't indicate a new update - but I will try again. Thanks, Dave

[@Raging_Granny_Gamer]

@@okaysamurai i have the latest update 2.2.1. and I downloaded your file again... I open the zip file and double clicked on the Sir CH Animator file. it opens Character Animator to a to Temp1_Sirr.zip that's up at the top left hand of the opened Character Animator screen. There is no puppet or anything else there. Please help. Thank you, Dave.

[@rutebrito8946]

Is it possible to animate 2 puppets at the same time?

[@okaysamurai]

Character Animator sees one face and voice in the webcam, so whatever you have selected in the timeline will get recorded. You can drag as many puppets as you want in the timeline, but you should probably only record one at a time. The other option for live workflows is hooking up 2 computers, 1 for each character.

[@rutebrito8946]

@@okaysamurai thanks Dave :)

[@yerkenutezhanov8557]

How did you draw this in photos hop?

[@okaysamurai]

I primarily used the pen tool to make basic stroked shapes.

[@Merry-Toone]

Hi brother m very great fan of you please please keep up the good work

[@timothybolton7852]

Sweet

[@adamssirenadventures6574]

I need my own Adobe Character Animator so i can do the same like you did.

[@okaysamurai]

Go for it: www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html

[@adamssirenadventures6574]

Okay Samurai Thank you, but do I need to sign in first?

[@okaysamurai]

Yes, you will need a free Adobe ID to do a trial.

[@adamssirenadventures6574]

Okay Samurai Ok

[@David-oq9wn]

Dave, do you know someone that can convert a character I created into an Adobe Character Animator character. I will gladly pay them. I tried myself but my character has to many details.

[@okaysamurai]

Check out character.adobelanding.com/thirdparty/ for a directory of CH freelancers.

[@David-oq9wn]

Okay Samurai, you are the best Dave, I can't began to thank you enough for all the help you have given me and everyone else. You are also such an amazing instructor.

[@iamrahulmaurya]

dude :) u are the best :)

[@WheresThePunch]

You’re amazing man! We have completed voice acting and storyboarding for a PSA about kids safety for Halloween for a non-profit organization. Would you be interested in animating it???

[@okaysamurai]

Since going fulltime with Adobe I don't do freelance work anymore, but check out this page for other CH users who might be able to help: adobe.com/go/ch_examples_thirdparty_en

[@tinytabletop]

Dave, where do we go to request tutorial topics?

[@okaysamurai]

Here is fine! I have a running endless list of ideas I keep.

[@tinytabletop]

@@okaysamurai OK then. I, of course, cannot be sure you have not already covered this, so if you have my apologies and could you provide a link? I would like a tutorial on your organizational practices. Ch projects can quickly get large and unwieldy, both within the project and on a finder level. I, for example, am doing a series of 1-minute videos with a recurring character. I like all episodes to be in one project so I can cross reference and appropriate elements. Within Ch, I may have folders holding Puppets, Scenes, Recordings, Imported Recordings, Backgrounds (even though it may make more sense to put the backgrounds in in Premiere or AfterEffects, having a reference plate is often essential) and so on. Many or most of these folders may also duplicate on the hard drive level. It can quickly become a mess. Do you have a structure you could share to make this all more manageable? I know this sort of tutorial is not as fun or exciting as how to do something in advanced rigging, but it would be hugely helpful. Keep up the great work, Martin

[@okaysamurai]

Great suggestion, I'll add it to the list. Quick explanation: for me, I keep all my assets in one folder on my desktop. So for this one, I had a folder called "Monstercamp" that had everything - the PSD file, the background music, the audio, etc - so it was all in one place. As long as you don't do the in-app CH command "copy media files" it won't copy them into your CH Media folder, it will just reference the original. For Evan Flamethrower I had a desktop folder per character, which included their PSD and audio files, and then folders for each scene that also included background, foreground, music, etc. However, usually I'm pretty unorganized and do things fast and loose so maybe I'm not the best person to give advice about this sort of stuff. :)

[@tinytabletop]

@@okaysamurai "However, usually I'm pretty unorganized and do things fast and loose so maybe I'm not the best person to give advice about this sort of stuff." Well, if not you, than who? But that was helpful, thanks.

[@MildredStain]

"Save me Blake Shelton!" Still laughing!

[@MildredStain]

LOL