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.

Ever since 2020 came out each time I reopen Character Animator all of my Arm movements are completely off. I can post a video for a better example. but the arms get turned around and down. almost like everything was flipped upon re-entry.

I have a giant mustache so its hard for the camera to tell during silent moments if my mouth is neutral, smiling or open. would be great if when editing a recording you could select which of the silent mouth shapes that shows, rather than having to rerecord those parts.

Sometimes the User needs to input specific numeric values on Position X or any other property driven by Sliders.

It would be nice if he was allowed to do this by double clicking the Slider, or through a text box that also shows the current value from the slider.

When dealing with Grouped Sliders,
the values could vary from 0% to 100%.

Add a "solo record" Toggle to "Puppet Track Behavior" items.
Just like the solo button from AE.

With something like that, the User can simply record few Behaviors instead of having to turn OFF every other Behavior doesn't need to be recorded.

On a big project, is kinda hard to look through every group of layers in order to fix or change the Triggers and Swap Sets.
And sometimes we have to work with duplicated triggers to do something like running a Replay and a Layer Cycle at the same time.

What if we have a robust Triggers Panel, based on Adobe's "Keyboard Shortcut" window. So the user could search and attach
his triggers to the keyboard, without worring too much about the Layers Hierarchy.

It could even be color coded, like on the Mockup image Attatched

For example, the user has a group of Cycle layers,
some of them are nested inside each other,
and they are sorted like this:

. Idle_LayerCycle
. Jumping_LayerCycle
. Sitting_LayerCycle -> Sitting_And_Waving_Goodbye

If the user wants to go from "Sitting_And_Waving_Goodbye" to "Jumping_LayerCycle",
he has to turn off the "Sitting_And_Waving_Goodbye"trigger,
then turn off "Sitting_LayerCycle",
to finally activate the "Jumping_LayerCycle" trigger.

Maybe we could have a less painful way to cycle through Nested groups.

With that feature, the user could customize detailed Headturns
or have more control when animating items like headphones or glasses.

This would let the user fully customize and improve advanced headturns (made through stacking multiple Face Behaviors).

Adobe Draw on iPad and now Adobe Fresco support a flat list of layers - no nesting possible. It would be nice if I can use a flat list of layers and maybe use layer name to control nesting - e.g. “Head - Mouth - Ah” as the layer name instead of grouping.

This would however require Alfresco etc to support LOTS of layers. I know Photoshop is coming to the iPad - maybe that is the better approach. I just want vector artwork, so I want Illustrator on the iPad I guess.

When you first open Character Animator you are given a list of example puppets, but it's not easy to go back to that menu after selecting one.

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

Switching monitors and auddio devices on a mac and pc causes a ton of these pop up boxes. Even when I select do not show again, I'm stuck having to close 10+ of these every time using Character Animator. I switch screens, audio devices (headphones to monitor) etc... a lot, so these add up.

It would be good if you could use multiple mics and cameras within 1 scene, this would be handy if you are creating a talk style show with a generic guest, we could use the audio feed to run the lip sync of a generic guest character while we continue to run the lip sync of our character at the same time. This could be done by bringing in a skype call and allowing the guest to control the character remotely

I would be great if we could drag triggers from the control panel onto the time line instead of having to record each trigger, it gets time consuming when you have to turn off all other recordings just to add 1 trigger.

I would be good if you could add a preview mode for animating in CH, so you can reduce the quality of the animation while animating to improve frame rate.

This is something that is done in After effects and think would work well in CH