Cartoon Workflow Tips (Adobe Character Animator and After Effects Tutorial)

Hi Dave, I created two characters in character animator and they have their own backgrounds. They will be having a conversation even though they are not in the same scene, I recorded them with their audios separately in Ch but I was wondering how do I combine both scenes into one so it will render them both into one final video? Does that make sense? Thank you!

Hi Dave, I was wondering if it was possible to buy the Adobe Creative Cloud package with a one time purchase? I really like Character Animator but I don't know if I will be able to keep using it in the near future. Annual subscription looks a bit too pricey for me it seems.

Hi Dave, I didn't know this program exists and I'm thinking of getting this. Is it possible aside from saving the work as a video, to save a particular pose of a character as an image that can be used for a children's magazine? I hope so, it really looks great! Keep up the good work cheers

how to add walk behaviour on a puppet without arms and legs or body?

Is there any good tutorial for front walk please?

Hey Dave, loving your work its actually encouraged me to start practicing on my own. I was wondering if you could direct me to a tutorial where you can make a puppet file from scratch? I am in the works of drawing a new character in photoshop but I can't seem to find how to make it into a puppet file. Thanks a lot!

Hi Okay Samurai, Will Adobe add motion library to Adobe Animate? also what are the latest things in Adobe character? Please upload new videos.

Hi. I noticed when I move my eyebrows, the eyebrows on the webcam face tracker marker moves in the opposite direction. Any idea how to correct this? Thanks in advance.

hello david
Clicking on Edit Original should open the original source in Photoshop.
It is no longer visible. doesn't appear.
The Photoshop program itself runs.
In this case, please tell me how to solve it.
The Photoshop source (original) of the puppet is in the existing folder.
well stored

Hi Samurai, is it possible to slow down the timeline in character animator so you can edit it a little better?

Hello sir I am huge fan of your work I created a puppet and in that puppet there are lots of facial expressions I want to use those facial expressions while playing games on live stream so can Adobe have a hot ki setup or something like a secondary keyboard or something can you please help me with that.

Would be cool if you guys had a puppet market to buy from where puppet creators can sell & adobe makes a cut. I say this because from a content creator who just wants to use puppets & not create them, it leaves me with just head moment. I don't need the whole puppet making editor but I would like hands control without a subscription just for this

Hey Okay Samurai. I’m hoping you can help me. I’ve read heaps of adobe forums for character animator and haven’t found an answer. I have a MacBook Air running on an M1 chip, 8gb of ram with character animator being the only program open and it’s either ridiculously slow or it will crash. I don’t know it it’s my PSD files that are too big or if it’s the program? I want to use it and for it to work but ive had no luck for months. Would love to know if u can help in any way. ❤

Havent seen an upload in awhile! hopefully a community spotlight for the beginning of the "new year" is the new video wink*wink lol

After setting the keyframe, can I put a soft or slow option in each motion?

Can you suggest a light source to purchase to light your face for the mouth movement? So the camera on your computer can see you clearly?

I would like to see you do something with action figures similar to robot chicken. Is it possible to 3d scan and import action figures and then rig the limbs for movement?

Hi Samurai, how do I go about making my characters head bop up and down as he laughs?

As a beginner it would seem that adobe animate would be a natural pairing with character animate, why do you use adobe after effects instead to do your composting?

Dave, if I wanted to create 'non-character' assets like 'fire' or 'smoke' to go into my cartoon, do you recommend building them directly in Character Animator, or would you use something else like Adobe Animate, and then bring them in to composite with the Character Animator footage after the fact?

Hi Dave. Thx for your awesome content! Do you know if Character Animator will bring updates to the rigging system to properly rig other body forms than humanoids, like quadrupeds? For work ive been animating ONLY animals for 2 years and every time i tried using Character Animator for it.. it was a brutal hustle and not really worth the headaches, workarounds and compromises.

hello dave
when you have two faces
After assigning a face to the parent folder
When specifying the jaw joint among the faces of each subfolder
When changing the type of face using the swap trigger
I can't use it because the jaw behavior is mixed.
So, unassign the face to the parent folder
After assigning a face to the heads of subfolders, set the face behavior to each
Applying it creates a very strange state.
What should I do to solve this?

How do we create different backgrounds?

Hey Dave, I am having and issue with recording into Character Animator. I am wondering if you also ran into this issue. I am recording with a mono condenser microphone, and it seems that character animator has no option to change their default stereo input to mono. Is there something I am missing? Thanks so much for all of your tutorials.

Wanted to thank you for your videos. I was struggling to find a way to make some graphs interesting in a video I recently made. I knew nothing about Character animate, but a few of your videos later I was able to make a character to give the video what it seemed to need. Thanks heaps!

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hello Dave. I am very interested in your videos and in Character Animator. Amazing stuff. I have a question regarding the configuration needed to use CA and AE with a mac. I read for example that AE had problems with mac mini M1 and M2. Is it true ? And what is the best configuration in mac to use CA and AE ?( In your video you are using a mac). Thank you for your response and your inspiring videos.

Can you explain how to make the personality follow the movement of the body, the 2019 version of the program

Hi, I have been working on my Head Turning but when turn my head there is some warping or stretching, how do I go about this problem? Thankyou

Hi again Samurai, Im having an issue with my characters mouth, it seems to flicker on and off every now and then on the record screen, do you know what may be causing this?

Hi, Im having difficulty with knowing how to move about or resize the puppet in character animator, could you tell me please or let me know if its in one of your videos. thankyou

15.42 With which program did you draw the vase and import it?

What program do you draw the backgrounds with?

Just a thought!

You guys should make purchasing character animator as a single app. instead of having to get the complete subscription to get the pro version!

Great tips. THankyou.

In regards to the megascene. When you create the 1920x1080 comps from the megascene...are you then opening that new comp in CH to animate it? I don't see a dynamic link option between AE and CH (I thought there used to be a link?) or are you doing that process differently?

If you can show a video of what you do with the resized dupliacetde megascenes and how you use CH with those- It'd be so helpful.

Also do you find that these duplicated comps at 1920 x1080 run slow because the art is still very large, even though the comp isn't?

Take acre and thanks again for all your great videos

man i just love your work ...i wish i could afford adobe CC one day as i am from India.

Visemes through transcript, is going to save me days! THANK YOU!

As always, great vid Dave

question in order to animate you have to know how to draw? I don’t know how to do it but I like to use After effect and a bit of character animator I wonder

How could be the process to create some cartoon if I can’t draw

Very informative as usual!! Thanks!!!

Haha here I am thinking I'm being lazy by not building full puppets for background characters, but I'm actually being efficient 👍

Dave, I love your content, tutorials, and especially all of the characters you create. I use them daily to practice how characters emote in gestures and move in space. Well done.

Amazing tips, thanks for sharing :)
I just have a question regarding the last tip, what would you do if you want a wide shot showing the whole scene? Would you just scale the mega scene down to fit the standard HD dimensions?

Great video as always! I'm curious about your reasons behind creating different scenes/comps out of your mega scene? There's always 1 million ways to do something in AE, I'm curious why you don't just make one new 1080p comp and keyframe the position/scale of the mega scene inside that?

These are some solid tips. Especially starting the audio before the camera enters the room.

Excellent video. Will we see character animator support live vector puppets, without rasterizing, and perhaps implement deformers in the future? Thanks for your never ending hard work.

Wow! Thanks! Exactly what I was waiting for!

This is so helpful!! I love the idea of doing just a few key frames.

One trick for the left/right versus up/down motion.

You can right click on the position and split x from y. So they get their own kehframes

I also am going to have to try the nonpuppet puppets!