Hi, I opened this video to have a quick look and stayed glued to it for the whole 30 minutes. The product is fascinating and the hello-world approach is really appropriate.

Thank you so much for this! I was really lost but now I feel like I've got a better understanding a good foundation to build on.

One of the best tutorial that I have seen in my entire life... Thanks Man...

Great video, you helped me get a basic understanding of Photoshop and character animate , and I was able to make my own character, it was really cool🙂

For a university project we've to do a bit of experimenting with stuff we haven't used and I decided to use this program so your tutorials have helped out a lot!

You are amazing! As I literally just opened Photoshop and character animator for the very first time EVER, this video is invaluable! The fact you actually mention the shortcuts you use and multiple ways of doing things, Like the ways you can selecte the layer your on, helps so much!! Honestly the best tutorial video I've ever seen. I will be watching ALL of your tutorials!! Thank you so much, ~Corbin

Such an amazing tool and extremely helpful video. Looking forward to creating my own animated face!

Dude, You are the man! Thanks a lot. Really simple and insightful tutorial. I recently got Adobe CC and haven't yet delved into Character Animator because it seemed like such a daunting venture. You changed that! I will make a character soon. Thanks again. Robert.

OMG This is a great video tutorial. I was struggling with an animation project I needed for school and watched so many other videos...they started further in....I didn't have the basics. Thanks so much for sharing this. I am on to the next one in your tutorials. I have a character drawn that I want to animate.

You Sir, are a legend. Thank you so much for all your hard work. I can't wait to get stuck into my short movie project.

had to pause the video to tell you how thankful I am for two things: 1 - this entire tutorial. 2 - how you briefly explain every shortcut you're using! as an editor, I know how easy it is to forget these intricacies and assume everyone will figure them out / already knows whats up :) always kind to point them out. big help! thank you.

@Dramadonia

3 жыл бұрын

I'm a complete newbie to this so I'm thankful for small mercies!!!

@_mark_787

9 ай бұрын

can you manipulate the eyeball shape , as in making it an ellipse instead of a perfect circle?

My first ChA and you nailed the lesson. I learned so much.THANK YOU

thank you! you always help me to get more perfect in character animator!

Really really helpful tutorial, I normally get lost when watching KZread tutorials on adobe software but this has helped me a lot with my uni work, Thankyou!

Great and straight-to-the-point explanation!! Thank you so much!! I'm so happy that my lecturer share this video for the assignment she gives out. I understand how things work wayyy better now, can't wait to do my assignment!!

EXCELLENT starter video...thank you! I'm excited to get started. My kids are going to LOVE doing this with me.

I am so happy I found YOU!!! Thank you so much for this video. Step by step directions is exactly what I needed. I'm so proud of my puppet I wish I could post it. Thanks again!

I know you will have 1 million subscribers soon. God bless you.

absolutely brilliant - so well explained - I've done far more than I thought possible.

This is a really great video! Just what I needed to get me started. Thank you!!!!! :)

Great content. Keep it up!

WOW Seriously you are gifted instructor for this software! Kudos...keep up the fantastic job...Adobe is very fortunate to have you on this project!

Amazing! I finally found the video that is easy enough to help me start building my first animation!

Fantastic lesson. Absolutely fantastic.

THANK YOU!!!!!! I really needed this♥♥♥♥♥♥

incredibly well done as usual! looking for videos for my students. this will obviously make an extremely grand beginning one! THANKS!!!

Great video, very helpful. I can't wait to see more of your tutorials.

Brilliant tutorial. Thank you. Very clear, no waffle. Perfect. 👌

FANTASTIC TUTORIAL! Thanks a million!

Just watched this for the whole 29 minutes and I felt like it was too short, great tutorial man.

I love this program you have taken my script to another level.

The software is truly amazing! Anyone who has done this kind of thing manually knows how painstaking it is. This software will save hours and hours of manual character animation, allowing animators to concentrate on more important things.

Dude!!! This was so much fun, and very easy to follow, thank you!!!

thank you for this tutorial, your channel is the best on all youtube for teaching Character animator. thank you

Fantastic tutorial thank you, all your videos are great!

Really cool n very helpful tutorial.. Very very intresting stuff.. I really enjoyed it..dude..tq..

Great vid, made making my character a lot easier, thank you very much.

Thank you for invaluable tutorials for the very beginners like me!!!!!

thanks for the template, I'm looking forward to trying it out

Thank for for the tutorial, it was awesome!

your video really inspire me thanks

Thank you. I love the way you teach and really helpful video and it is really helpful

I love your channel, thank you so much for your hard work Dave Sensei 🕵🏾‍♂️💎

Awesome tutorial

Excellent as always! Thanks!

thank you bro nice tuto

I enjoyed your video :)

Superb video. Thank you!

Thank you! Just what I needed!

This is so great. Thank you

thank you bro really appreciate your time

This is awesome! Thanks so much!

Great video thanks bro

Thanks very much bro for your help.

good tutorial, I belive I'll be a good animations maker from that videos you made 😉

Pls..pls keep posting more tutorials of Adobe Ch

thank you

Thank you so much! I created my own puppet in illustrator!

Dude ... your Awesome ... Thank you

شرح جميل جداً ودقيق وبسيط للبرنامج .. شكراً جزيلاً لك .

You are the best Dave!

You are the best samurai, i hope you will get one million subscribers! and, also i might make a animation/gameing channel and, i will give credit to you!

@okayyaarr

4 жыл бұрын

best luck dude!!!

All of this is great! Really helps! One thing that would be cool though is an Adobe sculpting program where you can make/sculpt your own original 3D model, rig, and animate in Ch.

@okaysamurai

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Fuse and Dimension have separate 3D capabilities, but I agree - connecting 3D to CH would be awesome.

Fantastic video.

Thank you! This is a great video.

really helpful liked and subscribed

This is amazing 👍

Hi Dave! Thanks for the great tutorials. I started playing with the template files yesterday, this is so exciting! Question: Will there be an option to record more than one face in the camera? Say real-time dialogue between two people in front of the webcam. Thanks!

@okaysamurai

7 жыл бұрын

Currently not one one device - for that you'd want two computers w/ two cameras/mics and then record & composite it in AE or stream it together using OBS/Wirecast or something similar. Definitely doable though - see the June tips video where we did 3 puppets at a time for the "Meet the Team" event!

love the tutorial. this has been the closest I've gotten to rigging the face right. However I've ran into a problem with the mouth parts not being able to move. I did copy and paste the mouth shapes into my file. Regardless, it has been (the tutorial) very helpful.

@willie_the_monkey_king

7 жыл бұрын

i actually solved my lip sync problem, the problem was that because i had my headphones plugged in. so your tutorial is 10/10.

@okaysamurai

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks - and glad you figured it out!

Very very Cool Video Thx a lot

great tutorial!

Great, tank you!!

Another fantastic video Dave, thanks. Regarding lighting your face. I once had a webcam with infrared LED's that would really light up your face, but wouldn't blind or annoy your eyes since it was infrared light. I would think the best position for such a light would be directly at nose level or perhaps below your chin pointing up, since that latter case would really help reduce shadows in the eye sockets. Do you think an IR webcam like would help with tracking?

@okaysamurai

7 жыл бұрын

Hmm good question, haven't ever tried that! But yeah, the better lit the face the better the results usually, so I'd imagine it could help.

Good job dave. Tutotial suggestions: Body same as you did here, Tracing your own drawings, update on walking cycles, after effects workflow with backround.

@okaysamurai

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah I'd love to do more tutorials in the style of this one.

Following you since a year and u r op....

AWESOME!!!!! Thanks!!!

You the best brother ❤️🔥

NICE

great video. made my first character

Thanks SO much

Thank you! God bless you!

Thank you so much

Thanks this video! Am building my character for a part in a music video. I just have one problem, I imported the drawings of my character into photoshop. The problem is the eye balls, they move all over. Is there a way to put limits so that they don't go all over? Thanks.

@okaysamurai

6 жыл бұрын

As long as the eyeballs and any background layers aren't independent (no crown icon) they should follow each other. If they aren't, feel free to post a screenshot at adobe.com/go/chfeedback.

great video as are all of the CH videos you have in here. I'm planning to use PS, CH, and AE in a beginning high school art class to teach cartoon drawing and computer art. Do you have any written instructions or guides I can use in class?

@okaysamurai

7 жыл бұрын

Nice! I had a pdf for an older tutorial, but it's outdated now. Your best bet might be helpx.adobe.com/support/character-animator.html.

@wesgonzalez3408

7 жыл бұрын

Okay Samurai thanks, that link will come in handy.

Awesome tutorial! I ha e a few questions as well; 1 When all is said and done, how many adobe products will I need to add in order to create my own animated series? I already subscrube to the Photoshop/Lightroom pack. 2. What system requirements am I looking at to run multiple adobe programs and animations lasting up to 30 minutes in length? 3 What role do An + Ch play with one another? Is it an either or, or does each one have its own critical function indipemdant from the other? Just trying to plan for how much I will need to buy from Adobe and what I'll have left over for the computer. Thanks in advance!

@okaysamurai

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 1. If you're going to get one other app, get After Effects - it comes with CH so you get two apps that work well together. For me, I find myself using 6 Adobe apps together to make my videos: Photoshop and Illustrator for character creation, Character Animator for animation, Audition for audio, After Effects for post-production composition, and Premiere Pro for editing. But I'd say PS / CH / AE is the minimum for a longform cartoon. 2. Check out the AE system specs at helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/system-requirements.html - that sounds right to me. 3. Animate and CH currently don't interact with each other, they're kinda like two different tools in the toolbox.

I enjoyed very much your tutorial, very good explained, I´ve learded about foundations of animation. A sugestion, in the description you have a web address that it isn´t redirect properly. Thank you very much and greetings from Bogotá, Colombia!

@okaysamurai

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, will fix!

Could you make the "sad mouth" set available? thanks for the amazing content.

@okaysamurai

4 жыл бұрын

You can take it from several characters - I recommend "Blank" from adobe.com/go/chexamples

thank you so much

Great tutorial thank you! One thing I couldn't work out is why my illustrator file doesn't automatically centre to the scene? I'm only able to use CA Beta as I've yet to upgrade my Mac OS (which I've been advised not to as it's quite buggy). Would this make a difference?

@okaysamurai

6 жыл бұрын

It should always auto-center, but if you have hidden layers or disconnected artwork that will be included in the calculation and can throw things off. See kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y6lnlpasZZWngKw.htmlm5s for adjusting the scene dimensions and using transform to reposition the character. And yes, there have been two major releases since going out of beta (1.0 & 1.5), so there are a ton of new features and performance improvements in the new versions - you should definitely update!

Thank You! I Have big question. How can i use key triggers when Adobe Character Animator window is inactive? For example: I want to stream game. I play game and when I'll press "G" button in game, my scene in Adobe Character Animator react to this button. ( sorry for bad english )

@okaysamurai

7 жыл бұрын

It's not easy to do currently - some people have figured out how to use third party tools to do it, but I think a lot of streamers have a 2 computer setup - game on one, CH on the other.

@user-zm2cp8dt4m

7 жыл бұрын

ok. thx very much. I'll try find some soft for broadcast keystrokes from game to CH :)

Thank you!!!!! 😍

Hi. Thank you for all of your content. It is really helpful. In June you presented the Ronin-character which had a really animated and ecpressful face. It also had a shortcut to place the head smaller in the corner within a circle. I am trying to make a character more like that. Is it somewhere these possibilities are explained more in detail?

@okaysamurai

6 жыл бұрын

The main thing with Ronin is really subtle use of head turning, and Kevin (a talented artist) knowing how to line things up / move properly to give a sense of depth. Yeah, I think a more in-depth tutorial into head turning makes a lot of sense for the future. The circle was done in After Effects, most likely just using masking - if you look up AE simple masking tutorials I think you'll find what you need!

@Storyraymond

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you. This helps some. I saw that one other puppet had the mouth together with jaw and cheeks. I guess if i take the time to do that together with subtle head turns, i will get a much more lifefull face.

@okaysamurai

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's definitely an option. Gene from our official example page has a whole head background that changes with each mouth! But the mouth/jaw area is where the main movement can happen.

Thank you !

Great tutorial, thanks so much! I have a few quick questions, hopefully you can answer. Eyes: can the motion of a pupil be limited (mine move around and get thrown off center quite easily), and can eye pupils be set behind eye holes, so if they rise up or down do not float above the face? Also, is there a way to get the body to not tilt every time I tilt my head (both the body and head seems to rotate in tandem.)

@okaysamurai

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, the next upcoming release will allow you to limit pupil movement and add clipping masks - see the "New Features Preview" video on this channel for more. You need to add fixed handles to the Body group to keep them pinned down - check out the Body & Limbs sections of the "Making Your First Character" video on this channel for how to do that.

Really well explained Dave, thanks. I got up and running fast. I notice the mouth template does not include a 'Th' phoneme (hope I'm using that word correctly). If I create one, will it work in the process? Are there other ones that will integrate into the software?

@okaysamurai

6 жыл бұрын

Currently you are limited to the 11 audio visemes and 3 webcam ones. In our lip sync editing right-click menu, we recommend the "D" shape as the closest to a "Th" sound. But you do have the ability to create custom mouths - you would just need to manually trigger them, not via audio.

@tinytabletop

6 жыл бұрын

OK. And thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

Thank you! Your vids help me a lot! I made an illustration (in Ai) and now I am trying to make a puppet of it. I'm stuck with his eyes, because his pupils are clipped in his lids. Is it possible to use clipping masks and make the eyes work in Ch?

@okaysamurai

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! But unfortunately clipping masks from AI don't carry through to CH. However, you can still do them manually inside CH by going to Puppet > Create Clipping Mask.

Congratulations!

This is helpful, is it possible for a full body too and side views and head turns as well for beginners like this one ?

@okaysamurai

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, I'd like to do more like this in the future. Just a matter of finding the time...

@jfiera4965

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you, it will be helpful

Thank you bro

thank you very much.