Adobe Character Animator

Software Overview

Adobe Character Animator is an application included with Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) to create 2D animated characters. The software allows you to animate yourself and your movements as illustrated characters in real-time, customize characters, and import character art from Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.

Character Animator provides a Characterizer tool, which captures your likeness as a puppet using your webcam and microphone and animates the character (referred to as "puppets") based on your movements. You can choose to live-stream your character's performance or record it for other purposes, such as an animated series or cartoon in a video.

The program also enables you to create a character from one of the puppet templates included with the software or import a design from other formats, such as Adobe Photoshop (.PSD) and Adobe Illustrator (.AI). When animating a character puppet, Character Animator provides a video timeline editor where you can animate the character in a scene by moving its parts into different poses and inserting other characters, voiceovers, sound effects, music, and graphics. After you complete your animation, you can export it to various multimedia formats, including .MP4 video or as a sequence of .PNG images with a .WAV audio file.

Summary

Character Animator is an easy-to-use tool for creating animations for fun and professional purposes. It offers a simple interface similar to other Adobe programs and helpful tutorials for animating characters based on your movements, templates, or designs imported from other image editors. While Adobe Character Animator does not provide the advanced tools most professional animators are looking for, it is still a fun and convenient tool for creating animations.

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.CHPROJAdobe Character Animator Project

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