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I have a steering wheel I want to have one arm in foreground of it and one in background but if I add it to my character it distorts it.
I have a steering wheel that I want to have one arm in foreground of and one in background but if I add it to my character it distorts it. The torso goes into mid air not connected to the rest of the body. If I add the arm as a separate Ai file it keeps putting it back to default position when I switch back to my character.
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Masking to hidden layers
What would be really handy is if you could mask to hidden layers. At the moment, unless Im mistaken, you can only mask to layers that are exposed (if you alter the opacity it affects that which is being masked to it) and you can only mask to a layer beneath. This is an issue I bump into time and time again
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¡Puppet tags dissapear every time I open the project!
I have to redo all the rigging every time I open a project because when I reopen the project I get an error, and then when I check the puppet all the tags are gone!
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using video as a source to animate a puppett
I would like to use a prerecorded video instead of a live web camera, so face tracking and audio (lipsync) comes from there.
Instead of applying some sort of filter to the video.15 votes -
bug free
if photoshop and character animator con talk better to each other that would be great right now we have the buggiest adobe software because you keep on adding cool features that don't even work half the time
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What is wrong with BLINKING?
Watch the video and help with why my blink was not working then work but then my eyebrows blink with eyes?
https://youtu.be/qEQpv0nS0sY1 vote -
Turn on visibility of sticks in Record workspace
Similar to how you you can turn on the visibility of your dragger handles, there are times when I'd find it helpful if my sticks showed up green on the stage so I could troubleshoot their placement. When the legs or arms are warping in ways I don't like, the solution is often to trial-and-error move those sticks around and find the perfect sweet spot. I think I might be able to pinpoint what part of the stick is influencing the mesh in an ugly way if I could see the sticks while the puppet's moving.
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Jimmy Neutron characters
Hello! Can you fix the Jimmy Neutron characters?
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HEAD TILT... please help
How do I get the head the move with tilt but continue to stabilize the body...?
https://youtu.be/Qbor3vaabsw1 vote -
Custom face/ body tracking
You label the parts on your puppet and then match with the face/body tracking by clicking on the corresponding area in the video feed or an image from the feed.
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Ability to turn off joint distortion while using IK
For cut-out animation styles (e.g. South Park type) it would be good to be able to turn off joint stretch/distortion while still being able to use IK/draggers.
I know there are various workarounds to be able to get a similar thing, but it would be good to have the option to just have each of the limb sprites retain their exact shape while moving their arms/legs.5 votes -
Parenting Like in After Effects
Am I not familiar enough with Character Animator or what, but here's my problem:
I have a little experience in After Effects before. There is a thing called "parenting"
It means I can parent layer "b" to another layer "a", and hence everytime layer a is moved layer b will follow that layer a movement. However I cannot find such option in Character Animator. A layer can only parent to its own group, and cannot parent to another layer outside its group. For example say a hair in the back of the head group and body group.
It looks like…
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BUG: Limb IK Ground Detection With Multiple Dragger Behaviors fails to move toe
If I have a puppet rigged like OKSamurai's Yoga girl, and I want some draggers to be "hold in place" like the arms and feet, but I want the torso dragger to be "return to rest" then I would need a local Dragger Behavior for the independent leg layer.
But when I do that, if Ground detection is enabled, then the heel/dragger moves fine, but the toe remains pinned to the ground.
This works fine when there's only one global dragger behavior, but no matter where I put a second one, the toe information is lost.
Nesting local dragger behaviors…
1 voteWould you be willing to provide a shared link to this puppet for us to diagnose? Thanks.
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HEAD TILT... please help
How do I get the head the move with tilt but continue to stabilize the body...?
https://youtu.be/Qbor3vaabsw1 vote -
Resizing of Source Files
I had a very large source .PSD file that I learned Character Animator would have trouble keeping up with--after I had completed all my rigging. I tried to resize my source file but this broke all the rigging (makes sense since the size of the puppet changed). Unfortunately the only way for me to fix it was to resize the source .PSD and create a new puppet and rig all over again. Fortunately I was able to use the previous build as reference, but it would have been nice to have some kind of option to create a smaller file…
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Change the route of a puppet without having to start from scratch
I had to move my original puppet from one folder to another. I couldn't reroute any of the attributes so I had to start with the rigging from scratch.
1 voteIf you select the puppet (that I’m assuming shows as offline/orange) in the Project panel, does clicking the file path in the Properties panel allow you to select the new location of the artwork file to relink the puppet? Or was that not working as expected?
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full body tracking and using pre-recorded video in lieu of live
Hi
I see that you can now do full body tracking in Maxon Cinema 4D
https://www.maxon.net/en-us/news/maxon-news/article/introducing-moves-by-maxon/
Is Adobe Character likely to create something similar, even if it only tracks head/face, eyes, mouth, hands, hips and feet?What is also useful, is that the original camera info can be pre-recorded rather than live, so a client, actor, director can send you a clip of what they have in mind. Even stock foortage could be used a bit like MoCap.
Thanks
Simon
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RNG Trigger Behavior
There are a lot of ways to bring your character "to life" in Character Animator, however there is one thing that a cartoon has that life doesn't: 100% consistency.
I have an idea about triggers having an RNG system to them such as different mouth shapes for the same sound to add variation or when I hit a trigger to make a pleased expression the expression has different variations that will randomly trigger to give the same emotion but have a slightly different look to give some imperfections/naturalness to the design (such as people don't make the EXACT same face…
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Smoothing out the image transformation
I would like to see a smooth change in facial expression due to the transformation of the image.
It is a function of "LIVE2D" software, like an "art mesh".Please visit https://docs.live2d.com/cubism-editor-manual/concept-of-artmesh/
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Recursive Swap Sets
At present, Character Animator (v3.4) supports Swap Sets that enable users to select a single layer to be visible within a layer group.
For example, say you want to create multiple pre-drawn facial expressions for your puppet, "Normal" and "Sad". In each expression, you want to be able to change the eyebrows, eyelids and entire mouth swap set.
How would a user achieve this with a simple puppet structure like the following?
…+Head +Eyebrow Left +Eyebrow Right Eye Left Eyelids Left +Pupil Left Eyeball Left Eye Right Eyelids Right +Pupil Right Eyeball Right Nose Mouth Neutral Smile Surprised M ...1 vote
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