Quick Rigging Fixes (Adobe Character Animator Tutorial)

[@atticusace6103]

I recently got access to character animator, and I have to say your tutorials are nothing less than god sent. Thank you so much for these guidance videos!!

[@nikkimenzies7620]

This tutorial is fantastic. Spent 2 days with puppet and myself going crazy. It has solved so many problems. It is amazing how much damage a couple of pixels can do. I love the mesh tool.

[@whoozie]

I stumbled upon this software recently and I made my first ever cartoon character with this...I never thought that I'd be able to do something like that...Cheers to the guys at adobe!

[@DavidSchertz]

Happy to see you posting again. Keep them coming

[@RobynO_O]

This is super useful. It's gonna save me a shiz load of time spent on troubleshooting in projects. I only recently started using Character Animator as I've been using other programs for animating, but it's great for some quick turnaround projects. Thanks for the tips!

[@thomasrugg9824]

Lifesaver. One of my pupils was restricted, and realised it was a tagging issue thanks to this. I tagged the eyeball shape as left eye rather that the whole left eye layer. Thanks!

[@bariseroglu]

Thank you so much for sharing with us the details that will take us hours to find.

[@hooplernono7033]

Your language is brilliant, very clean ,all is understandable, very easy to get. Thank you,very appreciate your videos!

[@dannyowen-kohutek3843]

Thanks for the tutorial. I have stumbled with these issues several times. After watching this, my puppet is moving a lot better.

[@watfamusic]

Thanks, Dave ❤ Still waiting for keyframe support for draggers though 😁

[@okaysamurai]

You and me both!

[@flyingmonkeymediatelevisio9207]

That would be a great help!!!!!!

[@sevdafratak2132]

You don't know, but we've been together for ten days. )) I'm constantly listening to you. We even made a character together. love from istanbul. :)

[@TLMOUSE]

Your work is awsome man and the entire adobe team. Thanks. Hopefully I can get around fixing the body rigging.

[@markgiles313]

Brilliant. Until now so many of these issues seemed like weird anomalies. You’ve identified them all! Very useful, thank you so much.

[@ArtnMotions]

Thanks! I am learning. It's a great help.

[@flyingmonkeymediatelevisio9207]

Excellent tutorial! I've been using this tool since it's inception and I still find new techniques every day!

[@sidsartcorner2018]

Thank you SOOOO much! I don't use Ch at the moment, but I loved the tutorial!

[@aprilmagee7764]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for these great tutorial videos! I ambitiously took on a character animation project at work with little to no animation experience and your tutorials have been saving my bacon.

[@samghafarnezhad1756]

first of all Thanks for teaching us. As far as I understand, any layer that is independent and has a tag, layer style is activated for it. Otherwise we do not need to pay attention to layer style.

[@okaysamurai]

I believe layer styles coming in from a PSD should work regardless of independence and tags.

[@speakforindia7472]

Congrats for 100k

[@andreeavasilache8923]

I've been searching for a tutorial like this for such a long time. Thank you so much for your explanations, helped me lots!!

[@SamWalkerBlue]

Congrats Dave on hitting 100k subscribers. Well deserved!

[@Vobo-Ghure]

This problems bothered me so much when I started learning character animator.... This video will be very useful for beginners.....

[@ilimyolcusu9323]

Dear Dave, You are wonderful...

[@themysteriousunknownrevealed]

I love the character's eyes when your rotating his arm 5:20

[@RachaelMuto]

You helped me solve all my issues thank you so much

[@tukufux]

Absolutely priceless! Life changing

[@NaruphonPunphairoj]

Thank you!!

[@umasahni5818]

🎊Congratulations 🎊 for 100k subscribers

[@DavidMichaSilva]

Great explanation Dave! Much, much appreciated! This helped out a LOT! So keep them coming!!

[@weekenders4756]

Thanks Dave for your great tips. You rock.

[@im_spoons]

thank you so much ! very helpful about the mouths, i think that might be my issue

[@rudranil-c]

I am working on some courses related to marketing, and character animator has emerged as a great great tool for me. I am relatively new to character animator, but the tool looks very promising in my course creation workflow, specifically because a blender or maya animation was really out of my reach. I required some animation tools that could be templatized to speed up the animation process. Appreciate these lessons as well, because without these lessons I am not sure I would have realized how powerful character animator is. I would request you to run youtube live sessions if possible, being new to character animator, I run into a few issues to which finding a solution is tough at times. Either way, these lessons are of tremendous value to me. :) I hope adobe keeps investing in this brilliant animation tool.

[@Morrismegamedia]

Excellent as always!

[@Bob_Razowski]

I have a basic question, maybe you've already answered to it (if yes, sorry !) but I would like to know if it's possible to save the movement of my characters so I don't have to recreate it on & on when I'm lauching a new project or when I'm changing the character ? Btw Thank you for all your work !

[@okaysamurai]

If all of your characters have the exact same structure (layer / group names, height, etc.) it should work - just swap the PSD or AI file. But if there are any structural or major art changes, it won't work because CH can't reconcile the differences. 95% of the time it's better to just re-rig/record for each individual puppet.

[@CodingWithPixelFix]

Awesome tutorial as always! Thank you and keep up the good work!

[@KyoZoldyck]

Amazing tutorial as usual. Thank you sir!

[@joesquadcoptervideos2067]

Great video, thank you so much Dave!

[@andrewkful]

Question: can you separate the arm into two drawings/layers, the forearms and backarm, so they join at the elbow, and still move with the rig provided in Character Animator? So far I seen you only use an arm as one asset instead of two.

[@okaysamurai]

Yes, this is possible! See kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4HJXoatiNR0itksi=b6oG38F_qEcMy4o0&t=908

[@jimcrick4429]

Thank you!

[@braininjuryproductions6150]

Happy Easter... My few problems are, having my hair dangle won't work unless I have the head independent, but it I do that my body flies of the screen. Also my head will not tilt from side to side when my head is not independent, but will work perfect when I remove the dangle from my hair. I had my arms working perfectly , but after I shut the program down, and reopened it the next day my arms do not want to work properly any more, as in the elbow bend is messed up. Next problem I want to go create my head turn, but my head layer for some reason keeps wanting to put itself in the face background file instead of in the head folder, so creating the head turn art is difficult. When I move the head art to the appropriate folder it messes up the face artwork and won't let it appear even if I move it to the head folder. Then trying to create the walk on top of this is even more difficult because changing parameters in the walk will not keep my feet from stretching. I am thinking that I am try to add to many things to my character. Could that be the problem? BTW enjoy your easter and answer whenever you can. oh and another also... how do we send you our characters to review and find fixes?

[@okaysamurai]

Hard to diagnose stuff like this here - for more direct help, please post a screenshot, video, or File > Export > Puppet (.puppet file) to adobe.com/go/chfeedback. Yes, I'd stay start simple and build up from there. Walking for a first puppet is probably a little too complex, but simple dangles should be okay. If you set up the dangles just like the girl character in kzbin.info/www/bejne/il6apod_m72Kbqc it should work.

[@MAngie-e5v]

I think that you are a professional at what you do. Your videos help me so much with projects. Do you have video tutorials for adobe illustrator. You are a genius. Please let me know if you have any tutorials for illustrator. This can help me to learn more about the program. I see that you got tutorials for adobe character animator. The character animator is my biggest problem. Thank you very for your video tutorials. They are wonderful, it is just what I need. I will be watching your videos for help when I stuck on assignment that requires the use of character animator.

[@okaysamurai]

The best illustrator tutorials I have are kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnyQdZ2qnrWtiNUsi=l59a7OsTOgHpqXez and kzbin.info/www/bejne/gH2TY2eVepZ0i80si=9MkcEjYsaGRVbHfe. Hope that helps!

[@sreeharikrishnan4823]

Yes! This tutorial was needed, Thanks dude! Support from India❤️

[@kambria9773]

MY HEAD IS NO LONGER INDEPENDENT. After 3 hours of struggling for that info hahaha thank you

[@mayanksingh1580]

Thanks resolved my all problems 😊

[@bremen1688]

Hi. thank you for everything that I learned from you. Secondly how can I learn that moving arms, like pointing something or hugging?

[@bremen1688]

if you have tutorial which one do I have to watch?

[@okaysamurai]

Part 4 of this tutorial goes into setting up arms: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXiudKpqm5aIqKs

[@bremen1688]

@@okaysamurai thank you a lot. You are the perfect teacher ever 😊

[@bremen1688]

@@okaysamurai I have watched this already. my question is about moving both hands automatically with triggers. like the Chole has. Sorry to disturbing you :)

[@okaysamurai]

Oh - those are Replays. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4vMoHqFdtlriKc

[@quarterpaul5712]

Thanks for your great tutorials, Dave! Do you happen to know a workaround for building up the arms with individually hinged Upper- and Lower arms, without them stretching. Any ideas?

[@okaysamurai]

We unfortunately don't have a great solution for multipart arms like this yet - we tend to favor the more automatic bending that Limb IK gives, which I know bends and won't hinge in the middle. Hopefully we'll have a better solution to this in the future.

[@AllaSweetGames]

Hello! How do I get rid of head rotation, when my rig doesn`t need it?

[@okaysamurai]

Just don't include the "Head and Body Turner" behavior and you'll be fine. If a puppet already has this, find the level in the rig where it is and delete it.

[@Diggo84]

Hey Dave! I made a puppet and the pants I put a red and black checkered internet image simulating a flannel pants, I made the clipping mask, and in the illustrator it looks perfect, but in the Character Animator the whole checkered image appears. Can you tell me why this happens? Would you help me? Thank you

[@okaysamurai]

Illustrator clipping masks, for whatever reason, don't carry over to CH. But you can add them back manually in CH with Puppet > Create Clipping Mask.

[@Diggo84]

@@okaysamurai Hey Dave, I fixed it yesterday, I created a pattern with the checkered BG and it apparently worked, but I'll try it the way you said it, thank you very much! You rock

[@OutcheaTvOfficial]

Absolutely amazing content My Guy, thanks for these videos and keep it up. We need more Beta vids too🔥🔥🔥

[@axumation5887]

Hello Dave! Thank you for the video!! Quick question--> what kind of computer do you recommend using for Character Animator, Adobe Ps, and Ae? My PC hasn't given me the best experience so far. I want to purchase an iMac, but wasn't sure what to go for.

[@okaysamurai]

These are our recommendations: helpx.adobe.com/adobe-character-animator/user-guide.html/adobe-character-animator/system-requirements.ug.html. I personally use a 2016 Macbook Pro with 16gb RAM and it works great.

[@paulawegman3955]

This was amazing content, super useful!!! Question: what about if I have a character that only moves their head? I should cancel body in behaviors?

[@okaysamurai]

You only need to add the "Body" behavior if you're including body tracking. If not, no need to add it in. You might want to check out the end of kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnyQdZ2qnrWtiNU, which shows 15 different working rig setups you can compare yours to.

[@paulawegman3955]

@@okaysamurai thank you so much!

[@cristijordan9757]

Hello, thank you for all your tutorials. They are very helpful. I wasn't able to find a tutorial for adding a layer to a puppet that you make from scratch. I did the rigging but it is missing the head and body layers. I used character animator and photoshop for my puppet. I'm a beginner. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. Again thanks for all the tutorials.

[@okaysamurai]

I'm working on a rigging tutorial now that should come out next month. But in general, for extra layers you should just add them into the basic groups of Head or Body. I would look at the setup of the blank templates here, and fill your artwork into the blanks: pages.adobe.com/character/en/resources

[@cjordan4971]

@@okaysamurai Thanks for the response. I will look at the video you mentioned and review the new video ones you release it. Thanks again.

[@spejampar]

Oh jeez, I love that messed up mesh! ;)

[@CanberkSezer]

Thanks for making this great software and thank for the tutorials also. :)

[@Ange1Monty]

5:10 How can I put a hinge on the elbow and make it move along with the whole arm?

[@okaysamurai]

You would need to connect the elbow from the forearm to the main arm. Here's an example character: drive.google.com/file/d/1FChn0PqCudGjFydjKlgwiUbaeiGWQPiO/view?usp=sharing

[@michaelmillan114]

Hello Okay Samurai!! Thanks for all the content that you've made. Very helpful indeed. I'm working on my puppet and I'm having a difficult time moving the origin of the head. I can move the arms, legs and everything just fine but the head will not move at all. Do you happen to know what could be the cause of the fix origin point? Thank you again!

[@okaysamurai]

Origins should only appear for groups or independent layers - normal artwork layers will not get an origin. If this is happening for the head group, make sure it is inside a +Puppetname group that is independent (crown icon). Otherwise I'm not sure - if it persists, please post a screenshot, video, or File > Export > Puppet (.puppet file) to adobe.com/go/chfeedback for more direct help.

[@CrankWavesbackupchannel]

Thanks to your amazing and well explained tutorials I was able to make a full KZbinvideo. Can I show you the result?

[@okaysamurai]

Of course!

[@CrankWavesbackupchannel]

@@okaysamurai kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZ-7k2OojJKtqJo There you go!! I'm very curious what you will think of it!

[@okaysamurai]

Great start! Love the character designs!

[@CrankWavesbackupchannel]

@@okaysamurai Oh, Thank you so much!! Also thanks to this particular video I also managed to fix an issue that you might have seen in the video. If you looked closely you saw that the robot could only move his arms and his head. The rest of the body would just stay in the same place almost like a mummy. That was becuz I enabled a crown on the whole head group. So this time I disabled the crown on the head group and enabled the crown on the individual head modes (standard & frontal) and now his body also moves along with his head which I like more.

[@CrankWavesbackupchannel]

@@okaysamurai I made a follow up video with slightly improved movements on Crankwave's part. You wanna see it?

[@utaschmitz-esser8611]

Great Tutorial. But there still is a problem, my head moves all alone and has no Crown. It acts all alone what should not be. How can I attach it to the body? And my arms do not respond to the camera. I can move them with the cursor, but not with waving my arms. Any tipp?

[@okaysamurai]

You need to make sure the Head and Body groups are at the same level, and that neither is independent AND inside they have at least one non-independent layer. For the body, try body tracking: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYilfXSZibx7a7M If the problems persist, 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.

[@utaschmitz-esser8611]

@@okaysamurai Thank you for your answer. I will have a look at the coming weekend. By the way, very helpful your videos.!!!!!

[@renatus123]

whats driving me crazy is the nutcracker jaw/jaw movement. I have really pretty advanced puppets in every other way but the jaw never works right. It's not totally clear to me if we should bother adding the behavior anymore since now it's been added to lip sync as jaw movement. So fine I do that. I put a fixed bar above the jaw and a jaw bar underneath the mouth all on the 'head background layer', and it still moves things above the upper jaw, or warps the mouth. It's always something moving that shouldn't be, driving me mad. So I can't use it and it really detracts a nice detail from all my puppets. Per the last video I've made the mouth, nose, eyes, everything independent that I can and things still not warping right. (I have to make them for 5 head turns. sometimes I make a jaw/bar in one head and it distorts things in other angles! doesn't make any sense.) my puppets are otherwise so organized.

[@okaysamurai]

So if you don't include anything tagged jaw you won't get any jaw movement, it's a totally optional thing. And Nutcracker Jaw is a completely separate behavior that has nothing to do with the lip sync jaw movement parameter. If it is warping other parts, try making those parts independent. Where you place the jaw tag, fixed handles, and independent parts will all have a dramatic effect on jaw movement. If it persists, please post a screenshot, video, or File > Export > Puppet (.puppet file) to adobe.com/go/chfeedback for more help.

[@renatus123]

@@okaysamurai Still radio silence on the boards. I've tried everything and I feel like I'm close but still stuck. I have a "frontal" group to get the better neck rotation, then a head group under it, head turns all work fine. then in the head group I have R profile, R quarter, Center, L quarter, and L Profile (and down, seems irrelevant). I've finally noticed a difference. In the right profile layer there is no number after it (in the "number of handles on this puppet category") and this is the ONLY head where the jaw works right. in the other head direction layers they all have a 1 next to it. that tells me there is some handle on them in some way interfering with the jaw. I can't find any way from here in the layers panel for it to take me to this "handle" it claims is on those layers. I see no such handles anyplace in the layers. They all have two handles on the face background layer for the jaw, obviously but so does the working one with no "1" next to the top "right Profile" name. So i don't understand what this "1" means now next to the rest of them, it shows no handles or tags anyplace in them and you can't click into that number to show where that handle is. Does that make sense?

[@okaysamurai]

Okay - I think the issue is most likely the extra Frontal for the better neck rotation - my best guess is since you essentially have two frontals, one for the extra head and one for the head turning, there's some competition between the two. I say this because I just tried adding the jaw to each view on Turner from okaysamurai.com/puppets and it worked (via the default lip sync jaw movement). So I'm wondering if the neck hack thing isn't compatible with this? Usually if only the first layer/group in the stack is the only one working, the behavior is only seeing the first instance and for whatever reason ignoring the others. Having Turner work make me think that's the problem.

[@renatus123]

@@okaysamurai I wondered if that might be it, i think the jaw behavior is looking for the jaw in the first "head" and maybe not the others below it, it works for other puppets of mine too without the neck hack. Maybe in a future version the neck thing can be worked into it in some fundamental way and include that jaw function again? thanks for the help, I was losing my mind, and theres no one else advanced in this to turn to, at least for confirmation. Really, really appreciate it!

[@pavelhudec863]

I had a rigging issue with the eye blinks (they weren’t in the right group), and after fixing this, the puppet suddenly stopped responding to my movements in camera and the eye pupils don’t move at all... is there some simple solution for this? Thank you!

[@okaysamurai]

This might help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4Tbf3aendJjoNE. If it persists, please post a screenshot, video, or File > Export > Puppet (.puppet file) to adobe.com/go/chfeedback for more help.

[@daniellecriss8409]

I've searched everywhere and I can't seem to find if you go into particles in any great detail. I've learned from all the physics based episodes but I need help with particles. I am trying to make water particles continuously drip from a water based character. I have created a droplet and placed two at each heal and one at each wrist so it appears he is dripping when he stands or moves to add more life. I need for it to begin immediately and continuously through the scene. I have tried point and shoot and cannon on continuous with between 2 and 5 particles per second, bounciness 2. I've tried variations with dangle and or magnet to get it to act more aquatic. I just can seem to make it look right and when I render, the particles do not show in the video. I welcome ANY recommendations from ANYONE. Thank you community!!! I love you!

[@daniellecriss8409]

Could placement be an issue? I have the droplets inside the arm and leg groups as I wanted the particles to follow those limbs in particular. Should they be placed elsewhere?

[@okaysamurai]

Particles are tricky and it's a behavior I haven't personally used much outside of the tutorials to be honest. Another good working example of particles is the chicken blaster from the CH home screen. If I remember correctly, particles can run into issues if they start in a collision state, which can be hard to troubleshoot. That's the best off the top of my head - if it persists, please post a screenshot, video, or File > Export > Puppet (.puppet file) to adobe.com/go/chfeedback for more help.

[@sunsun4961]

Do you have a video about your computer setup for animation? Like the pc specs, assistant devices that you use, and in general the requirements one should look for when buying a computer for producing animation?

[@okaysamurai]

These are our recommendations: helpx.adobe.com/adobe-character-animator/user-guide.html/adobe-character-animator/system-requirements.ug.html. I personally use a 2016 Macbook Pro.

[@sunsun4961]

@@okaysamurai Thank you for the quick reply! Super stoked as I am an apple user too, most of the videos I have come across only show custom pc's for animation

[@shpikable]

the dangle tool does not work correctly If I make a negative scale on the layer. How fix this bug?

[@okaysamurai]

Hmmm, that does sound like a bug. If you post a post a screenshot or video to adobe.com/go/chfeedback we can try to take a closer look.

[@shpikable]

@@okaysamurai I have posted video to adobe.com/go/chfeedback

[@strvggle1174]

What if your animation is complete then it decides to crash and then the shape that you have hooked to the rig disappears and leaves just the rig. I used adobe animate I'm not used to animation whatsoever. I now have the bonetool rig showing but I cant edit the armature with a drawing or in other words put the shape back on to the rig so now I have an invisible animation. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEASSSSSSSSE HELP

[@okaysamurai]

If this is for Adobe Animate I'm not sure, this tutorial is for Adobe Character Animator. If it is Character Animator I would just reimport the PSD or AI file.

[@tannwaldmedia3501]

is the function "render as vector" still available? Couldn't find it in properties panel

[@okaysamurai]

Yep - but it only shows up for AI files. If you select an AI puppet in the project panel you should see the option in your right properties.

[@aurobindadash4549]

Hey I have rigged the arms of a character in adobe character animator, but the arms still not moving. What's the reason behind it? Please help

[@okaysamurai]

Hard to diagnose here - If it persists, please post a screenshot, video, or File > Export > Puppet (.puppet file) to adobe.com/go/chfeedback for more direct help.

[@martinflashgordon]

The yellow outlines are gone when I click on HEAD or BODY layer in rigging mode? Where is the problem?

[@okaysamurai]

Make sure "show mesh outline" is blue in the lower left corner of rig mode. If the problem persists, please upload a screenshot to the official forums at adobe.com/go/chfeedback so we can take a closer look.

[@martinflashgordon]

@@okaysamurai Hello. Thanks for your answer master. I have fixed yellow outline. Now it works, but other issues arrived. I have created video to show my puppet and his life troubles and also thread ad Adobe community the link you provided. I hope uou can help me because I need to create 3 more puppets for my animation series:) My puppet started to run all aver the screen, I can not weld it to the ground, the head stops moving, etc. kzbin.info/www/bejne/boS7matmhahpjpo

[@JirasakHengsrisombat]

How can I rig the puppet to kick ball or something in the scene

[@okaysamurai]

Check out Limb IK: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2mYeXqJdrhrZsk

[@TheWonderofMilton]

Hey mate. I add a 2nd dragger for the 2nd arm but it keeps not carrying through To after effects. Any idea why?

[@okaysamurai]

What you see in AE should be the same in CH, that's strange. If you click the red dot next to the character's name in the timeline and play it back, that's exactly what should show up in AE. If it isn't, please let us know - sounds like a bug - please post a screenshot, video, or File > Export > Puppet (.puppet file) to adobe.com/go/chfeedback.

[@TheWonderofMilton]

@@okaysamurai OK thanks, yeah I think it is a bug. I am also using the new beta as well which is worth noting. In the end I rendered it with an alpha background which was fine. Side note- if you get a minute please check out.my channel, if you like it feel free to show on community spotlight. Not sure if it's good enough yet. The latest video is Loki vs the Joker rap battle. I use character animator for all my videos. Love it.

[@fernanda_animates]

Hi I'm trying to pin the head of my character to the scene but I use the pin tool on the "head" group and nothing happens, tried to use it on the "face" layer and it still moves around when I move in the camera, I want to pin it so my eye and mouth movements move with the webcam but not the face. I've tried everything! any pointers? thanks!

[@okaysamurai]

If you truly don't want some element to move with your head movements, I would move it out of the Head group into either the Body or its own separate non-tagged group. Anything inside the Head group is going to try to move with your head movements.

[@fernanda_animates]

@@okaysamurai this worked!! thank you so much!

[@mohammednasir2064]

hi sir .. can I make the poppet head turner affect Take affect during walking behaver.. because when I add the head turner affect to the poppet it wasn't responding to walk Behavior .. thank u

[@okaysamurai]

Check out Walker on okaysamurai.com/puppets - he has head turns and walking.

[@mohammednasir2064]

@@okaysamurai THANK YOU SIR ... YOU ARE AMAZING

[@braininjuryproductions6150]

I am looking for your more than one character video and I can’t find it now I saw it earlier.

[@okaysamurai]

I don't remember where I showed this in a video, but check out the Wizard tutorial on the home screen in the app (middle card at the top), which goes over this in a lesson.

[@MeanPhyllis]

Hi Dave! After making a few minor tweaks in my character's PS file, the character's head is suddenly floating far above his body. Sadly, this isn't the first time this has happened either. Any idea what's going on?

[@okaysamurai]

Sometimes adjustments to the original artwork, especially ones that change the character dimensions to make them taller or wider, can be misinterpreted by CH when you resync. My fix has always been to just manually move the affected groups/layers in CH rig mode. It's an annoying bug but hopefully is one that gets squashed one day.

[@MeanPhyllis]

@@okaysamurai It worked! Don't care if its annoying as long as there's an easy fix. Thanks Dave. I've got an ambitious project, I can't wait to show you.

[@britrules]

Great video, as usual. The only thing I'm still not clear about regards the 'Origins' section. I get the arm-shoulder-origin function, but what implication does moving the body's origin then have on the arm?

[@okaysamurai]

Origin = where things rotate from. So moving the body origin means that's where the body's center of rotation will be. It shouldn't affect the arms.

[@britrules]

@@okaysamurai Thank you for your help! But what does the green dotted line indicate?

[@okaysamurai]

If you see a green dotted line, that means the part can't find something non-independent to attach to. If you drag over top of a green overlay instead, the dotted line will go away. Try moving the arm origins on Chloe from the home screen to see this in action - her arms are connected to the non-independent body, but if you move them away you'll see the dotted line.

[@britrules]

@@okaysamurai That's great, thanks!!

[@brukway7373]

Nice bro thank

[@josephmcdermott5613]

Dave your videos are incredibly helpful. I'm experiencing a new issue. I have a puppet i designed and rigged, but for some reason when I try to use lip sync, the visemes show up below the puppet, but his mouth isn't moving. Any ideas? Thank you so much?

[@okaysamurai]

That would seem to say to me that the mouth isn't tagged or rigged up correctly, so CH doesn't know what to do with those mouth shapes. If there are any mouth-related triggers, I would try deleting them to see if it changes anything. I would also make sure everything is in a group called "Mouth" and all the mouth shapes are tagged as well. If it persists, please post a screenshot, video, or File > Export > Puppet (.puppet file) to adobe.com/go/chfeedback for more help.

[@josephmcdermott5613]

@@okaysamurai right now I don't have any triggers involving the mouth. I checked the tags and it says there are 3 mouths per shape (frontal, right quarter and left quarter). I'll try posting on that link later if I can find time to. Thanks!

[@Giromij]

i have a problem with legs, they are not fixed, seems like fixed anchor point is not working for me at all. i want my character to breathe, but when it does - arms and legs moves no matter what.

[@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.

[@rjaybacarisas1589]

Sir. Can i ask a question? When i export my CH file to AE an error occurred. It says "failed to connect to dynamic link" how do you fix this kind of error? Thank you for the answer.

[@okaysamurai]

This may be an AE bug...but one thing you can definitely do is make sure all your apps are up to date - if they're not all the latest versions, communication issues can happen. A workaround is to use PNG Sequence export from CH to get it into AE.

[@rjaybacarisas1589]

@@okaysamurai ah i see. My AE is 2019 while my CH is 2020. I will try to install the latest version of AE. While the PNG sequence is working on my ae. Thank you so much for the help sir.

[@jacquelinewilliams747]

Hey Dave! Ive been SCOWERING your videos to find out how to fix my puppet! The puppet is a stock 'Popcorn' puppet from the movie puppet section i got either from Adobe or some other site.. The limbs keep floating away from his body! I'm trying to animate his wave and a side walk (hes forward-ish facing so i know it wont look like hes actually walking and thats ok). PLEASE SEND HELP! Ive tinkered with the placements of the tags but nothing is working!

[@jacquelinewilliams747]

OK... I kind of fixed it... the crown icons are off but... his body is warping...

[@okaysamurai]

I think I mentioned this in one of your comments elsewhere, but 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.

[@basseverexclusive8047]

hi dave do u have any example/template in psd or ai for line effect fame by frame ? i mean when arm swing too quick the line effects pop out.

[@okaysamurai]

I don't believe I have anything like that unfortunately. The main frame by frame stuff we have are stuff like cycle layers fire, lightning, etc.

[@basseverexclusive8047]

@@okaysamurai yess. Exactly what I mean. The cycle layer template. Do u have it ?

[@okaysamurai]

I don't have them other than the ones that are in puppets like Evan Flamethrower. They were originally made by a company called POW Studios but I believe they're out of business now. If you look up sprite sheets or png sequences online you might be able to find additional resources like this.

[@oramadance]

Why i can`t activate my camera, " No camera selected"? Help Please! In my computer setting i have camera On

[@okaysamurai]

This usually happens when the camera is being used by another active app. Try closing all other apps and launch again. If it persists, please post a screenshot or video to adobe.com/go/chfeedback for more help.

[@oramadance]

@@okaysamurai Thank you!!!

[@oramadance]

@@okaysamurai Hello again,i have one question please, can i use the puppets from Character animator for free in KZbin for Kids Chanel? Thank you

[@okaysamurai]

Yep!

[@chapd9434]

However, it is still difficult and many unknown errors occur. And it is difficult to find an answer anywhere on the internet.

[@okaysamurai]

If your problems persist, 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.

[@heyheysister7379]

Well I'm very frustrated. Spent many hours creating a cartoon and then after outputting to Media Encoder, both applications crashed, and when I opened up the Character Animator program again, none of the triggers are working now. They show up on the timeline, but nothing works. What's the issue??? They show up in the Triggers list and in the Replay panel but nothing works...I was using the Beta version of Character Animator. There's about 20 triggers I created.

[@okaysamurai]

Make sure the character is armed in the timeline and the triggers behavior is armed on the right. Those would be the most common reasons you're not seeing them live. If it persists, please take a screenshot or video and post it on the beta forums so we can take a closer look: community.adobe.com/t5/character-animator-beta/bd-p/character-animator-beta?page=1&sort=latest_replies&filter=all

[@heyheysister7379]

@@okaysamurai Those were the first things I checked. Meh. I just re-created all of them. But wish I understood where CH stores things like that.

[@8414darkness]

I created the character. but I can't move the arm or leg with the mouse. keys are active. but not with mouse. it's not like 1.57 minutes

[@okaysamurai]

Make sure you have draggable tags and the Dragger behavior is on (red dot). Check other example puppets and look in Rig mode to see how they're set up and emulate their setup for things like the arms and legs. This video should help as well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnyQdZ2qnrWtiNU

[@8414darkness]

Thank you

[@ceegeetv96]

my project wont open. adobe character animator always says that the data is on a server and i have to put the project on a local drive so adobe character animator can open it... but i dont know what the program is meaning by "on a server" i have saved all my prjects on my local drive... not on a server... do anyone know this problem and know how to fix it ?

[@okaysamurai]

Strange, normally you should only see that message if it's on an external drive or cloud-backed folder like dropbox or creative cloud. If it persists, please post the message and/or your files to adobe.com/go/chfeedback for more help.

[@ceegeetv96]

@@okaysamurai crazy.. i have solved the problem. If i save my projects on microsoft one drive it works.. i dont know why.. but its ok for me as long as it works this way ^^. Thank you

[@natig2015]

I'm having problem when I import from AI to CC. Some of my puppets even are imported without the face ( eyes, nose, mouth). I organize the layers on AI but I'm still struggling. I am considering to take some classes instead of trying to learn by myself.

[@okaysamurai]

Hmmm, the face shouldn't be disappearing like that in CH unless it's been connected to a trigger or the visibility is turned off. If you check AI examples like Chad or Chloe from the home screen, their faces should come over intact. My guess is something is just slightly different in yours that is causing issues. If it persists, please post a screenshot, video, or File > Export > Puppet (.puppet file) to adobe.com/go/chfeedback for more help.

[@natig2015]

@@okaysamurai great! I will try. Thanks for your support.

[@obsoletevalues6209]

I am trying to get The Professional to walk. When I expose the Rigging Issues panel, there are 14 line items in it. All of the line items (100%) are demonstrably false. Just FYI. Most of the line items say something is missing, when in fact it is not.

[@okaysamurai]

The Rigging Issues panel is meant to be a guide to help debug problems, but it can be a little overly sensitive sometimes! If things are working for you, you can safely ignore it.

[@JWitty18]

Did rigging render time get a lot longer for anyone else with last update?

[@okaysamurai]

Hmmm, it shouldn't...if you're seeing this, please let us know at adobe.com/go/chfeedback. Should be the same, if not better, in v3.5.

[@LuckyandSpot]

I plan on getting an M1 chip MacBook Pro. And I was wondering how does character animator handle on that? Does it crash a lot?

[@okaysamurai]

Here are our requirements: helpx.adobe.com/adobe-character-animator/user-guide.html/adobe-character-animator/system-requirements.ug.html. I'm using a 15" 2016 MBP for all of these tutorials!

[@LuckyandSpot]

@@okaysamurai “Multi-core Intel processor with 64-bit support” so are there plans to make it accessible on the M1 chip? Or does the Rosetta 2 work fine?

[@okaysamurai]

I checked with the devs - sounds like it runs fine on Rosetta 2 currently. No announced M1 version yet, but stay tuned.

[@LuckyandSpot]

@@okaysamurai awesome thank you so much for checking in!!!!

[@basseverexclusive8047]

hi dave. how i can make a wiggler on my character ? cuz im already add it to a character behavior. but its not wiggling. how am i supposed to do ?

[@okaysamurai]

Wiggler will only work for vector based images (for now). My guess is you have a raster based PSD.

[@basseverexclusive8047]

@@okaysamurai so how to do so ?

[@okaysamurai]

If it is an AI file, it should work. If it's a PSD, there's no way for it to work currently. If you have an AI file try turning "Render as vector" on/off to see if it works or not. If it is an AI file and nothing is working, please post a screenshot, video, or File > Export > Puppet (.puppet file) to adobe.com/go/chfeedback.

[@basseverexclusive8047]

@@okaysamurai where can I turn that "render as vector" on or of in AI ? Cuz I dnt find it.

[@okaysamurai]

It's not in AI, it's in CH. When you select a puppet in the project panel, look in the right properties panel towards the top.

[@v.s.a3826]

Hi Dave! Why are you not uploading any videos I mean don't you have content or I am not getting updates?

[@okaysamurai]

Been busy with working on the next updates for Character Animator! Not enough time to do everything I want to do sadly. More soon!

[@v.s.a3826]

@@okaysamurai Oh. Ok I will be looking for a new video.

[@leafleftedthischannel]

hmm, Why did character Animator said that select a noneempty layer when I'm trying to add a handle "And it was the arm"

[@okaysamurai]

If you make it independent does it change anything? Does the arm have artwork on it? If you try adding the handle to another group/layer of the arm does that work? If it persists, please post a screenshot, video, or File > Export > Puppet (.puppet file) to adobe.com/go/chfeedback for more direct help.

[@leafleftedthischannel]

@@okaysamurai Oh! NOW I FOUND THE PROBLEM, thanks by the way

[@-dardacha9409]

How do we walk on the stairs?

[@okaysamurai]

There's not a great easy way to do this currently - I'd say your best bet is to put stairs in the foreground and move a walking character diagonally up using Transform keyframes.

[@techgoggles]

Adobe has a facetracker, why cant we get that for after effects it would be so much easier replacing real life characters

[@okaysamurai]

We do have face tracking in AE too! helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/how-to/face-tracker.html

[@ryandavis4632]

can you show me illustrator and draw

[@okaysamurai]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gH2TY2eVepZ0i80

[@MaxSmm_business]

I think you need to start like a uhhhh...online course, teaching course

[@HorribleHomeVideo]

I'll build puppets out of the same file (so everything is same order) then ome will go "nah puns don't work no matter what you do"

[@okaysamurai]

When the artwork contents change in a file, sometimes CH has trouble reconciling the old rigging to the new art. It can be tricky to diagnose, so if it persists, you might be better off re-importing/rigging the character so you'll have a fresh start. If you run into more issues, for more direct help, please post a screenshot, video, or File > Export > Puppet (.puppet file) to adobe.com/go/chfeedback.

[@prosperityokechukwu1503]

Okay Samuri please I'll like you to help troubleshoot my puppet I've followed the whole steps in editing the blanks yet the pupil keeps coming out. Pls can I get your email

[@okaysamurai]

For more direct help, please post a screenshot, video, or File > Export > Puppet (.puppet file) to adobe.com/go/chfeedback.

[@nevermoreexplorers]

Why cant someone just say DO THIS To attach the arm, leg and tail to the body???

[@okaysamurai]

The arm rigging part of this intro tutorial should help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnyQdZ2qnrWtiNU

[@cordilete1]

first!