Intro to Rigging (Adobe Character Animator)

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This is the best Puppet production tutorial I have ever seen.

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[@mrhare00]

Everytime I forget how to use character animator, I go to this video right here to get me started after I create the asset. Works every time.

[@janis_runcis]

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[@will_sketch]

30 mins in and I gotta say, this tutorial is fantastic. Everything is clear and concise, easy to follow and actually fun. I cannot tell you how many tutorials will put me to sleep 10 mins in. Okay Samurai is the best, arigato sensei.

[@etalo834]

You have one of the best detailed tutorials that I really can finish even when it's so long! Great job!

[@TheGoldenGoat8698]

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[@RideTheTeacups]

I love it; thank you so much!!! A year later, this is still super helpful. I've rigged my character in this video using your tutorial. Still got some fine tuning to finish, but it's SO MUCH BETTER than my previous ones!

[@Piraja]

Thanks! Hopefully I can finish my first animation by the end of the year.

[@ajsiemers]

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[@hollyfearn6422]

You could not have been clearer in explaining the step by step process for beginners into how to use Character Animator, fantastic! Thank you so much for taking the time to make this, it was so easy to follow and clear. I'll be binging your other videos now!

[@whalewhaleo7487]

could not have gotten started on a project without your help, one of the best adobe tutorials ive ever watched

[@MegaLuz10]

Your are the best teacher ever! In 48 hours i learn how to move a character, im not know ANYTHING before. Thanks for all your lessons!

[@fabiolopez5651]

You have no idea how much your videos about adobe character animator are helping me, thank you so much

[@gcprost]

Thanks for doing this. I used to do a lot of Adobe Character Animator a few years ago. This was a great refresher.

[@dzjamesofficial]

How do you structure Hands triggers using Photoshop with the layers?

[@okaysamurai]

Check out sample characters in the app like Chloe. Typically you add a hand group inside your arm group with a bunch of different states and make a triggered swap set to move between them.

[@dzjamesofficial]

You're the man!!! @@okaysamurai

[@spazure]

I love your teaching style. Others have gone too fast and I wasn't able to retain much of anything. Thanks for sharing this!

[@fashowallday4073]

12:08 Oh thank god. All of my reference photos are in the A pose (couldn't get a bigger greenscreen).

[@madartzgraphics2019]

Damn, knowing Adobe Illustrator since day 1 saved me a lot of time. All I need to master are the process on how to transfer these into Animate smoothly and rig it! Thank you so much.

[@iremsunar8315]

This is perfect! Thanks for explaining all the key bits so thoroughly. Your teaching style is very easy to follow👏

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Lo estoy viendo... No he podido encontrar un tutorial más completo que este de adobe animate, es extenso y a la vez breve para todo el conenido que abarca...Increible. Gracias!!!

[@sirron2929]

I installed Character Animator for the first time today but I've already learned a lot from your videos. Great timing with this one! Thank you! 😁

[@Dammy1998]

OMG this is the best tutorial of tutorial i have ever seen. So easy to follow through

[@artwasemsr4950]

5 hours and 46 minutes later I finished it. Okay did take a few breaks. I believe 4 or 5 years from now I am going to be so good at this. Thanks for the lessons.

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Excellent. Award worthy. Thank You !

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[@DaveTheTurd]

I cannot get over how cool this app is....

[@RavenHouseMusic]

Rigigng a character is pure pain.... This relieved me of so much of it haha. Thanks Okay Samurai really appreciate this turorial!

[@jessiehenson2030]

it was impossible for me to get started with animation but after watching your videos I am so confident and able to make my own animation, thank you very much.

[@myfancyinternetlife]

How! How!! Just how can a human being be such a good teacher. I am not an animator but I am going to get this software and try my hands. Thank you so much

[@robmartin7235]

I never comment on KZbin videos but I have to say your tutorials are extremely well done. I have to go rig up a collection of characters now thanks for help!

[@edustepacademy5766]

Tonight I learn character animator and improve my English a lot with this great man.

[@ahendoproduction]

I'm a game design student at Lindenwood University and this video was very helpful. Thanks for making this video!

[@ChuckNoise]

This turtorial is so perfect that i cried when it ended!

[@CuriousBorg]

Excellent tutorial. Easy to follow and easy to back paddle and correct if you go wrong in the process. You're a great teacher, thank you so much.

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[@raisafraiman]

You are such a great teacher!!! thanks to you I could do this I was getting overwhelmed and didn't want to start on a project that I had to do and thanks to you I made it!! thank youuu maaaan!!!! I subscribe !!!

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I have never seen a such clean explanation. Loved your energy 😀

[@СарыевПарахат]

One of the best youtubers ever! Dave, respect!

[@HowardVause]

Amazing - thank you so much! Really excellent tutorial - great pace, clarity and tone. What a treasure trove of resources to discover. Thx a million!

[@krumpleeTV]

Fantastic educational content! I've spent like 3 hours working alongside you, it was so fun and even made a small funny character that I'm proud of.

[@igantiusfaraday5149]

Another great tutorial. A very engaging nature and a clear, concise yet natural approach . Thank you.

[@jaybillups2063]

Great course - thank you very much! I've installed this program several times, but could never get started and figure out the workflow, but now your videos are allowing me to do that. I use Vyond for client work, but CH allows me to do so much more, especially having the rest of the adobe suite. Vyond is pretty good for a web-based program, but I always have to bring it into PR and sometime do frame-by-frame animation to get the results I need. Seems like a waste to pay for it when I already have CH as part of my subscription. Cheers

[@judgeworks3687]

This is an amazing overview. Love that you also shared all those types of puppets at the end.

[@pabstacodewabs]

There you go, the Andrew Kramer of 2D character rigging. 👌🏻👌🏻

[@MrStampersClass]

All of your tutorial videos have helped me with a goal of making classical Aesop's Fables come to life with animation. Animals have been tricky to animate but your videos have been instrumental in learning the program. Thank you Dave for all that you do and keep the awesome videos coming!

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Wow.. would you be sharing your channel? I want to see them. This guy here has made me want to take my drawings to a new level.. ANIMATION!

[@chaztoons]

Yessss!!! Finally rigging comes to CA! Been rigging and animating in after effects with a combo of CA alpha exports and rigging in AE with rubberhose! WOO!

[@brandondaniels2504]

"Now NORMALLY we don't float in the air like this and pivot from our necks" 🤣🤣🤣 Amazing tutorials as always! Literally spent the better part of my weekend watching your videos.

[@marceladiazmoron8137]

Awesome tutorial, I didn't know adobe had this cool tool.

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you're a great teacher, love the simplicity, with details! subbed!

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Sir i have become your big fan. So much love from India :)

[@SincerelyTracie]

Photoshop it is 😂 currently following the tut from scratch. Thanks for all your hard work, being clear and concise ☝🏾

[@linnettanavarro1466]

This is an excellent tutorial. I'm learning a lot. Thank you!

[@Nonnyspaceduck]

Super useful and great video! Thank you very much for making it!

[@krobin10]

Great tutorial as always. Steady paced and I had a great puppet at the end of it. Thank you!

[@jayprayag]

Fantastic explanation.! Three salutes to you!!!

[@MonaCreativa]

This video helped me a lot. Its a great basic! Thank you so much.

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Your videos are saving my life ❤❤❤❤❤

[@ElArdiSH]

What if I dont have a web cam?? how do I animate??

[@okaysamurai]

Yep, still possible: kzbin.info/www/bejne/baHKnpKrabueh80si=_fEd2cPGiHfjbVVA&t=220

[@gugo6842]

As always you make it easier and easier on us. love your work and i can't wait for the other future that you going to bring on this program.

[@rudranil-c]

Loved the quick tutorial. learned a few tricks. Thank you.

[@erinhowley4567]

Thank you for this awesome tutorial, so helpful. For Photoshop users, how do you attach the separate hand and arm layers? At 1:20:00 it shows how to put a hierarchy between the hand layer under the arm layer with illustrator, but photoshop requires to group hierarchies using folders. I can't seem to get the hands to attach to the arms while using a swap set for the hands. Can anyone give me a tip?

[@okaysamurai]

Basically anywhere there's a change in hierarchy, you would make a folder in PS. So Body > +Right Arm > Hands Group + Arm artwork. If you look at the PSD version of Chloe on the home screen I think you'll see this setup in Photoshop.

[@madihajabbar2001]

The tutorials are great, I am hooked to all of them.

[@mogole]

Dope video, I've learned a lot as a beginner. Keep the videos coming.

[@ivanmasalitin2394]

That`s a really great tutorial, workflow explained in a very simple way, great tutor, I`ve just installed Adobe CH few hours ago, watched this and 1st tutorial and going for more!! Thanks mate!

[@learningscienceisfun]

Hey Dave! Thanks for all of your videos. Super helpful. We have rigged a few characters with body tracking, but the characters arms are glitchy/twitchy. When working to adjust the sensitivity, the rigging causes the arms to pop up at like 45 degrees at a resting position. Have you seen this or heard of it? Any suggestions possibly?

[@okaysamurai]

With any body tracking character I do, I have to do a lot of adjustments in the Limb IK and Body parameters. If the arms are looking weird in a resting position (45 degrees instead of to your sides), usually adjusting calibration (we recommend starting in an A position when calibrating, but you can try other poses and see if they work any better) or which body handles are tracked helps to fix it. We have also internally discussed about wanting to add a "smoothness" parameter to body tracking to ideally smooth some of the twitchiness out of it. Hope that helps...If the problem persists, please upload a video to the official forums at adobe.com/go/chfeedback so we can take a closer look.

[@amaghafi]

Well done Dave, better than any book for this Software, thanks a lot. I never understood better than this! Best Videos by far

[@globalcomputerschool]

It's an awesome tutorial I'm looking for to work with and found it's very useful for me.

[@nestorpatino9252]

Thanks a lot for the vid! I've been learning a lot with it, I'm watching it slowly as I work step-by-step. I'm finishing my first puppet but I still have troubles as I don't want my girl to be Elastigirl, LOL... her limbs stretch a lot and I don´t know how to prevent it. But well, I'll keep researching and watching your videos. Thanks for the help and the learning I'm obtaining :)

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best video to learn most of the software basics

[@sebastianmcmitre]

Great tutorial! Step by step along with a great teaching personality is a winning combo. Thanks!

[@juanssal]

Woow amazing tutorial, thank you very much my friend

[@mallhits]

You read my mind. Excited to watch this video

[@rebeccazohra]

I really appreciate the videos you make. Im an absolute beginner and almost gave it up, but thanks to this video i got a fresh start and it got me excited to learn much more! X

[@GeanImation]

17:39 Does anyone know why he uses pluses (+) on some names (+Left Arm, +Right Arm) but not pluses on other names? (Left Leg, Right Leg, Head) I can't believe it wasn't addressed since it seems like an obvious question. Thanks

[@okaysamurai]

This is the independence concept I talk about in more detail at 1:04:39.

[@LouRao]

Wow! Wow! & Them some! You’re amazing in every way illustrating Adobe Character Animator. Thank you for presenting the first steps using this software (Best KZbin Video I Had seen so far) Well job done😎

[@totlenmoingay]

Huge thanks to you for your dedication. May I know if there's any tutorials on multiple character rigging? E.g. Two people holding hands walking...

[@okaysamurai]

I don't have anything exactly like this - if it were me, I would probably fake it with two puppets with only one arm rigged for walking and the other in a set position, and then place them side by side and have their arms overlap. If you need more help, please upload a screenshot, video, or your File > Export > Puppet file to the official forums at adobe.com/go/chfeedback so we can take a closer look.

[@totlenmoingay]

@@okaysamurai I really appreciate you taking your time to answer this comment. You are super inspirational and also a talented teacher. I wish you all the best.

[@EmilioIacovini]

10 out of 10!!!! Fantastic teacher !!!

[@stumblearts-x1h]

Extremely helpful. Thank You !

[@14-8entertainment]

hello there.... can you do the tutorial of Character Animator without a webcam or how to animate the character with external audio, if you already done that will you please share the link. thank you.

[@okaysamurai]

Without webcam: kzbin.info/www/bejne/baHKnpKrabueh80 and animate with audio: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWqnnHh_jq9lotE

[@14-8entertainment]

@@okaysamurai thank you so much.. Long live Okay Samurai

[@evakwok1675]

thank you very much for the lesson. Its very useful and easy to understand.

[@khalilbenalgia4279]

thank you so much for teaching your knowledge . and please, is it possible to make one of the arms move in front of the face ? thank you

[@okaysamurai]

Yes! I talk about this at the end and the example characters pack will show you several working puppets that do exactly this.

[@ayaz1979]

I was desperate to have a look at the entire process on the latest version. Thanks

[@ganapathysubramaniam]

Incredible video. Just discovered this awesome software and learning tons from your videos!

[@SunriseInkling]

Thank you. I can finally make animations beyond Canva and PowerPoint.

[@dassalo]

Fantastic tutorial - one thing I'm having an issue with is that in spite of having labelled everything as described here, once I import the puppet, the head follows my webcam movement but is floating around detached from the body. Does anyone have a suggestion for what I might have done wrong?

[@okaysamurai]

This might help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/baHKnpKrabueh80si=8khjbGHEz7Rd1k85&t=180

[@pamthevan7340]

Thankyou for the tutorial - 2 questions. 1) I want to animate a fork lift - not a person / face. It looks like it is possible to turn off the camera / voice thing as I don't think that is going to be relevant for my plan. 2) Do we have to record the animation 'live' as such or can I start with a start scene, then create an end scene for CA to complete the move by creating the extra frames? To put this in context I wish to show a fork life from one side, have it lift the forks and load up, then tilt mast, forks and load backwards in one - leaving the body of the truck where it is. I've done something like this using photoshop to create the layers, then Cyberlink to animate - just wondered if Character Animator can be made to do the same? Many thanks, Steev

[@okaysamurai]

1. Yes, you don't need to have face or voice activated to animate. 2. Yes, it sounds like you want keyframes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6SvXoGQZZWEl68

[@Rosomyat]

Best Teacher always - Loved your content. Thanks

[@86TrapHouse]

Perfect Timing.

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Superb..... Teaching skills you have❤️❤️❤️ You are really mentor 🙏👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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Wow, you're an amazing tutor, I understood every single point. I have subscrbed and Liked

[@EdKonyha]

Awesome, awesome stuff as usual Dave!

[@vrynstudios]

Just followed. But lip syncing not working. What I could be missing?

[@okaysamurai]

Hard to diagnose here - if the problem persists, please upload a screenshot, video, or your File > Export > Puppet file to the official forums at adobe.com/go/chfeedback so we can take a closer look.

[@JoGarciaMov]

You are my saviour...Thanks so much for this valuable content!!

[@gordybelike]

Thank you for the really great tutorial on adobe character animator.