It would be great if you could copy and paste all rigging and other parameters from one puppet to another. Say you're creating minions, each slightly different looking from the others, but largely the same. Hours could be saved if you didn't have to rig each.

And if there were then a couple of issues that needed to be adjusted due to the unique properties of one (say he's only got one eye), that would still be much quicker.

Martin

Hello, it would be grew to if CA would support models of various kinds of creatures along with their movements:
quadrupods, birds, snakes and fish

Thanks,
Rajnesh

Rigging is much too complicated. I'd like to have handle bars or slider in order to move the marionette, I'd like to fix the head on the neck and to have the neck squeezing while the head stays in it's form, I'd like to hang arms to the body like in AE, I'd like to animate walk cycles instead of capturing something by the camera, I'd like to squash and sqeeze by mouse.

Currently layers that contain Illustrator symbols are not parsed correctly in Character Animator showing only one instance and recognising the layer name.

It's useful to be able to include Illustrator symbols to avoid creating and editing multiple times the same artwork (e.g. eyes, pupils, eyebrows, etc.).

I hope this is considered as a compatibility feature request and gets added to the backlog.

Best

A set of basic behaviors likely to be used repeatedly...

Bounce
Rotate
Jiggle (with some kind of randomization)

With parameters like duration, speed, randomization, ease in/out...etc

...All I can think of at the moment but I'm sure there's more ones likely to be used repeatedly.

I'd like to see a true bone system implemented instead of trying to derive a structure from points that can be scattered in different parts of the puppet. Consolidating all the hinge points to a single layer will make editing and debugging a puppet much easier and straightforward.

this would be a game changer for CH. something like this after effect script: https://aescripts.com/joysticks-n-sliders/#

for controlling facial expression non-live, maybe even the rigging system can improve the live option, this really gives a 3d illustion to 2d animations, and it seems pretty simple in after effects.

Complex mouths look pretty bad when synced to audio, and it becomes very noticeable that some sounds don't have proper lip pronunciations such as "Th", "Z", "K", "P", and "Wh".

Getting the 12 essentials would be a massive improvement and allow for more complex designs.

Hello,

It would be great if CA would support Rear and 3/4 views of characters along with walk and run cycles for movement.

Thanks,
Rajnesh

To have objects that dangle be able to collide properly with other objects when they dangle. At the current time the object just appears to be dangling but actually stays in the same spot.

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2520232

Hi,
1. As most of my characters are woman, I'd love to be able to give them a hip sway to their walk behaviour.
2. Would be great if you can have a Walk Front behaviour like Wonder Boy. Also include a hip sway with this behaviour.
Thanks

I want to be able to add a mouths with smug and sad to my animation. Right now you are set to the provided number of mouth expressions.

Would be nice to be able to parent items to a null or dragger. For instance if I want to parent both pupils to dragger, I could then just move the dragger around to control them.

I find that adding the CYCLE LAYERS takes the most time (besides assigning MIDI triggers to multiple hand positions) after importing. It can also be a challenge to explain this to a client when passing off work.

WHAT IF:
In Illustrator or Photoshop, you could just write "CYCLE LAYERS" and the behavior would already be added? You could even give us a letter to add for "hold on last layer" "cycle once" and "when trigger released" [Or give us the ability to change the default of CYCLE LAYERS in ACA].

THANK YOU!

Wishlist, with Create Trigger dropzone - Would be great if there was one that created both a Trigger and add Cycle Layers Behavior.

Would also love a way to set Cycle Layers, Triggers, Bones, and Attach from layer names in Illustrator and Photoshop. (Similar to independent.)

Sometimes I have to restructure my puppet and it’s tough having to re-rig when plans change.

Inverse kinematics – Similar to the after effects riggin plugin DUIK, adding more realistic control to limbs. Makes them only bend one way

Love any shortcuts that keep things from becoming repetitive.