Coming from an AE standpoint, I am really used to the Replace Footage option and Character Rigging can be quite fastidious if your characters' got all (or a lot of) the phonemes.

I tried to base my second character on my first one because I was expecting the option the Replace Footage to be there, layers are saved the same way, it's the exact resolution. That would have been saving a ton of work in pre-production.

Saddly, it's not there... yet?
Or maybe I am not looking at the good place?!

Either way, that option should be implemented, I think everybody making more than a single character in CA would be a big fan of this time saved NOT doing the same thing over again.

Thank you in advance! :)

There's an option to attach the feet to the ground, but it would be really helpful to have hand controls like that too (to a table, a desk, etc.) so it doesn't go all weebly-wobbly during animation.

Also, having a separate Handle/Behavior for hands would help to follow the movement capture in-cam and help sell the movements and not be only a floppy continuation of the arms.

I saw a lot of problems too with a 3/4 character, arms are suuuper hard to animate. I've change them from already bent to kinda bent and it kinda fixes things, but to get from a file for client approval to animation, it takes times to adjust them so the result is the same. If you can figure something magic out, great (if not, I am probably sure you're doing the best you can).

Thanks!

I don't think you guys noticed this, but I'm sure that thousands of your users have-

In-app playback in Animate and Character Animator absolutely sucks. How is it that in 2002, you could scrub and play through the timeline as you work and get frame-accurate playback. But now, with vastly faster CPUs, we can't see that anymore and we have to resort to exporting videos and swfs just to see what we are doing actually looks like? You should be ashamed of yourselves at how poorly your apps perform, given the horsepower of modern computers. It's deplorable. What's your excuse Adobe? I was never a member of the Apple/Jobs cult. But he nailed it when he called you out for being lazy. I've been using "Flash" for character animation for over twenty years. For the first several years of my career, I was able to play through my work in-app and see EXACTLY what the animation looked like. Now when I do it, I see the apps struggling to deliver a 10 fps rate. WTF?!? Computers evolve and yet Adobe devolves. I despise you. I can't understand why no other company has risen to challenge your incompetency. Oh My God do I wish there was an alternative to Adobe. I can't believe no one has utterly stomped you out by now. I expect no reply. I expect NOTHING from you. NOTHING is what we get from you. You're coasting, riding on your laurels, raking in billions and you don't give a **** about your users at all.

Oh yeah, I guess I forgot during my rant, but my gripe is that in-app playback sucks donkey balls and you have no excuse because I distinctly remember it working PERFECTLY 15 years ago. So get on it, or shut down this whole "How can we improve" *****. Step up or *****.

I just want to say first that I think it's really great that starter mode is a thing, and thank you for making Character Animator accessible! I love the simple nature of starter mode, and I know this will be easier for my friends who don't animate to understand than using performer mode is right now.

The only thing that I would like to see included in Starter Mode is the ability to use triggers outside of recording a take. This is mostly to do with live streaming, having access to those triggers outside of recording would mean that a live performance was possible in a limited way (eg: keying instead of NDI setup, no camera triggers, no draggers).

However I also think it would be useful and educational to be able to press the triggers before recording to get the imagination going before recording a take.

Hopefully this isn't asking too much of a free version. Thank you for considering my request.

I read two other ideas similar, but I think it comes down to bounding boxes, ala Photoshop, with Cmd and Option changing the box points' functions (skew, etc) as in PS. Instead of clicking a layer as in PS, you click the element in the timeline, and its box appears. Including cameras.

Much more intuitive and fun to use. For CH, I think it would be more intuitive than in PS where you might have 100 layers.

Related to this, if cameras can't get a bounding box, allowing the mouse/touch controls to affect X & Y coordinates to establish keyframed shots instead of the dials would be nice for those of us not doing live performance.

Thanks.