5 Advanced Character Tips (Adobe Character Animator Tutorial) 

Your channel is so incredibly valuable. Clear, in-depth tutorials that actually educate. Really hard to find. Thank you!

Agreed with all the below: Adobe needs to 5x your salary immediately. So good.

These are so informative and clear you’re the best teacher! I hope Adobe knows how valuable u are 🙏🙏🙏

I would never have realised how much I enjoy animation until I found your channel and then bought character animator… thank you so much and please keep giving us updates!

Okay Samurai releases a new video and I leave everything behind to go and watch it! :) This is the way!

Awesome. Thanks Dave! Also one thing I learned a couple days ago, Animator was slowing down a lot lately, but deleting a lot of my old projects sped up the program significantly. Thanks again for the updates!

I beat my head into a wall for like an hour trying to figure out how to get a character's jaw to move subtly with lip-synching. I should've known you covered it somewhere! Behold! It's in this tutorial, and now many of my characters have smoothly moving jaws. THANK YOU again!! You da' man!

Your vids are a great teaching tool. In less than a day I was able to assemble and animate my first puppet character with no experience. Thank you for helping to bring my comic series to life. :-D

Love the tutorials you have put together, they are extremely helpful.

Everyone has said it but I will too. You are an amazing teacher. Thank you so much for what you do!

Thank you so much for this - I just finished a lot of artwork I had some concerns about and you addressed everything in this video

I've been basically animating everything, then exporting everything out as one big batch of animations. Then in adobe premiere, I chopped it all up and pasted the part I needed in the specific scene I needed to use it. Takes add another dimension to my process.

Okay Samurai is fantastic. Very entertaining and Dave is super watchable! 🙂

Thank u so much!! I was really looking for this type of software to start my youtube carrier thanks for the video...hope you hit million

I wish I see that eye trick 3 months ago. Thanks, Dave, very useful as usual

Soo excited!! The moment I see the notification of your new video at the top. 😍😍😍😍

Straight up NINJA moves! Very cool, Dave. Thanks.

Wow! This is amazing. Also proud to be one of the five who know.

All this time I had no idea Mesquite was a garbage wood. :O Awesome video Dave (as always)!

Hey !!! Am telling again you are not Okay Samurai .....you are AWESOME SAMURAI 🥳✨✨✨

so cool! Incredible software.

As always Dave, Thanks for all the tips

Thank you Dave for all your hard work , your videos are amazing!!!! and I think its time to replace Seth MacFarlane voices with yours :)

This is amazing software!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!

Okay samurai is the best teacher! thank you

Thanks for your videos. I love your teaching.

Having been using character animator for only a month I'm proud to say I'm in the group of five people who knew what you were referring to with the eyebrows near the end. :) HOORAY!

your tutorials are A+++++

Good stuff. Especially the draggable eye approach. I’m curious about the 2 eyeballs rotating independent of each other in the opposite direction approach which you mentioned. That’ll be awesome for crazy eyes.

I did not know a "take" was a thing. Super userful

for the first lesson- my instinct was to create two states for the pupils- one with them centered and one with them off centered. And just use the off centered one for diagnols. But I didn't try it yet- so I don't know that would work.

I like this eye brow technique. way cleaner than what I was doing

tnx bro

...and the eyebrows triggers. Awesome.

just so useful video

brilliant! subscribed thank you

"around the horn". I love it!

Mind blowing

Perfecto! Thank you.

Oh man...yessss! Thanks again OkieDokie Sam your eye!!!!

I haven't really been using blending- I should do that more.

And I'm inspired a lot by the Consoles video That was some real proffessional quality stuff

You are the best.

Hi okay samurai, Thanks as always for your lessons that you provide to us, recently I learned the trigger position for the hands. But doing a full posture of the hand with the arm like waving the hand and expressions as well, I didn't know how to do that, I saw Chloe and noticed on the Illustrator file that the trigger were hidden, small-sized layers behind her body, I looked in your videos for how to do that and unfortunately I couldn't find an answer. Can you please tell me how to do it? Thanks a lot in advance .

thaaaank you maaan !!!!!!!!!!!

nice

BellNotification Squad, at your service!

When I use the extra head rotation ( which works great - thank you

Love u Dave 😍

hi love your videos! i have question please: i want to record moving the arms with the mouse on each arm separately, i recorded one arm movements fine but when i want to record the other arm i cant see what the first one is doing it just snaps to default position while recording and doesn't show the animation i did. is there a way to make the first arm play the animation while recording the new arm movements?

Hi dave.. Can u make a tutorial on how u create this character... Willy look amazing..

the jaw stuff always confuses me- I think the latest way I did it is I had a background base for the head and the jaw was a seperate peice that copied the background head base. But that's redundant and unnecessary now that I've seen this clear explanation. I think I used a dot for the jaw too- not a line. So that probably helps.

Do we really still have to do it this way for better head turning? 13:45 Has Adobe added nothing in the past 2 years since this vid was uploaded?

Dave, is it possible to maybe do a single youtube video on the creation of animated triggers more indepth, such as with the Purple Alien? We see you do animate the puppet by the press of a button, but we (or rather I) am still grasping of doing it ourselves. E.G. I have a really hard time creating a trigger which makes my character wave hello or goodbye.. OR if you have it explained somewhere I would LOVE to hear where I can see it and learn from it! P.S. Many, many thanks for the quick responses and all the help U give to the community!

hi dave. how can i make the puppet stand still while both of leg i set to independent. cuz, when im using face camera to move head n body, the whole puppet seems rotating a bit, and i already tag both of leg as fixed, but still look like a bit rotating when i moving puppet head and body.

What would be the ‘ideal’ computer specs to get Adobe character running at its best? More CPU cores, better graphics card or lots of RAM? Thanks for all your tutorials by the way, they have been invaluable! Subbed :)

Sir!!! Thanks

Great tips! Is there a way to tweak the replay once it's in the swap set? For example say you want to fix the ending pupil position if you resized the whites of the eyes, or you realized the eyebrow animation speed is too slow and want to speed it up?

Wonderful tips... Thanks... But didn't find any willy puppet on okay samurai puppet page.... Could you please check if you updated it....

Great tutorials! I do have a rather tricky scenario I'm trying to accomplish. Wondering if you have any pointers? Is it possible to do this : A character lounging on the couch. I would like him to sit up, completely changing position. What I'm trying to do is inject some frame animation so it's a somewhat smooth flow from 1 position to another position. The thing is, this would be such a change that simple rotations won't suffice. It's kind of like transitioning to a new puppet almost. Does that make sense? I know this would be some kind of trigger/replay/switch set/cycle set up .....I just have no idea how to nail down the logic...

hello Dave..thanks for your videos...as many here, its always exciting when a new one arrives....i use ur digital puppet to teach english in China and i love the process. Here is the thing. ne of my ex boss saw my videos. She contacted me coz she wants to create an eductionnal channel on a local tv here in China. She seems interested in putting some of my videos in her kids program. How do u feel about that? Im only using the free puppets i find on the net. Can we use your puppets without copyright problems?? Thanks for what u r doing. u r a great help....xiexie as they say ;)

How is the head staying attached if independent? Your body is still moving with head movement - how, if independent?

Hi 0Key samurai how can we make the eyelashes draggable? I did that it didnt work it can only be controlled by camera input

oh wow, interesting techniques

@okaysamurai how do you draw the characters with the hand drawn look to them in Illustrator?

I know there was something in one of your videos where I can connect the head to the neck but for the life of me I can not find it. Right now my head is detached from my neck, And I kind of want my head to move my neck around, but again, I can't find that video for it. I have tried pinning the head to the neck. but im not sure if I have to mess with something else with it.

Hey, I love the arm and hand movements but I can't get my puppet to that with body tracking. is this possible?

Hi @okaysamurai , I want my puppet to be able to reverse bend his arm (like in 0:45 to 0:49) but when I use "reverse arm bend" the arm can only bend one way. and when I activate Auto arm bend the arm starts warping in weird directions even though I put sticks to make the arms more rigid.

Great as always! I'm using the Willy character, and whenever I record a trigger like the brows raising up and down -it also records a take of the pupils and arms, deleting or overriding the last take of those features. I've disabled everything but the triggers option, not sure how it's assuming I want to override any other areas. They are both triggers, how do you disable one or more triggers to only record one at a time?

I need an animated music video- any leads on how/where to get started ? I’ve been putting out feelers on FB to no avail 🤷🏽‍♀️

Is there no way to keybind a keytrigger to fx. ctrl+1 instead of just 1? If you want a dymatic character, for livestreaming while playing a game, you're really limited with available keys witout ctrl or alt modifications, since most keys are used within what ever game you might be playing.

Love the video. However, when I try to set up the custom pupil controls, after I record a two frame clip, the pupils keep reverting back to the original position of the Photoshop file. Can't seem to figure out what I've missed. Everything's off except Dragger in the behavior list and all tags were removed from the pupils in Rig mode and then only assigned as "draggable." Ideas?

I use Ch for create animation in my channel.

Can you please help with compute head movement from speech, it makes my eyes move around the face?

Sir can we add dragger behaviour to legs to move them like hands is it possible

Hi how can i fix if the head is moving separate to the body, like its floating away from the shoulder?

Can you please let me know where i can find a video of how to import and export from Adobe Ch Animator to a different platform?

a m a z i n g ! ! !

Is there a tutorial for how to use mouth triggers on a head with more views? (frontal, quarter, profile..) I am still having troubles with the set up

is there a way to make Character animator detect the expressions rather than manually put them on (like eyebrow lift, blinking, angry, sad, scared etc..) ? or using the iPhone's face recognition on it?

Hey Mr Dave can you make another cartoon like the consoles but without using after effects cause after effects takes a lot of juice to run and I can't run it so if you'd upload a workflow video for making it in premire pro That would be great 😶😶

Hi there Okay Samurai, I'm working on a project that started with a downloaded puppet. The character's facial features move to simulate the head turning slightly, and I was wondering if there is any way to add moustache that moves the same way, and whether you have done a video that covers this. Thanks a lot for all your videos, they have been very helpful in all my animating.

Hey Sensei!! the mouths are now working I re-ordered everything so it is now fine. So the last thing I would need to learn how to make as a trigger for more expressiveness on my video are the eyelids. Especially the half lids from below and squinting too. Do you have a video on that? Is it okay if I may suggest something. May you look at the most frequently asked questions like the ones I have been asking for the last couple of days , there is something I noticed , you probably would have covered a specific topic but for some reason you have a lot of videos and they are really big, and the info one would need would be like a minute long in your video, so may you look at the common things people always ask and trim your videos into 1-3 minute long trims of that specific thing and name them accordingly, like Just cut your lip-sync video into parts like HOW TO UPLOAD CUSTOM MOUTHS IN ADOBE CHARACTER ANIMATOR IN 2 MINUTES. I am a content creator and know that you wont have to spend alot of time on this because its just cutting an already existing video into essential parts. No one will think you are stealing or trying to be smart, If you did this my life would have been extremely easier without me having to ask you for every singly thing I need and ask if its hidden in one of your videos. The best way to success is by helping others is by creating answers to problems and If you would do this, Everyone would really appreciate you pin-pointing things we need. Thanks Sensei! your videos are really helping like wow I could literally give yoou gold if I had lol

Is there a way to keyframe triggers? I swear I've looked everywhere.

I guess 3 years ago, I must have too scared to watch this video. I can't believe I missed this!

Please make a tutorial on how to clone your talents. Ok thx bye

Hey mate. I'm struggling to find the video that you cover how to give your character moving wiggly outer lines. Do you remember? Thanks in advance ☺

Okay how after u import a song and convert for lip sync, how do u add head movement and other gestures.

Hello sir. My question could we import this puppet to adobe animate

Dont get it. I cant move nothing. Had a caracther that could move arms but only that. Now I have willy, did that on eyes, and they dont move, nothing move. Do I have something disable? I have dragabble on arms, legs and eyes, dont make sense. I know that already have that eye configuration but dont know I anything move with mouse click.

Is it possible to make characters act like Tv Cartoons. I mean how to make characters walk with realistic poses?.

Can we do 360 body turning? Is there any technic to that in Adobe character animator?

where can i download the psd file of this character?

Wake up samurai, it's Adobe character Time!♥️

Hello okay samurai, thanks for your helpful lessons, but I encountered a problem where when I designed and completed the puppet I noticed there were problems with moving the hands where they overlap each other, the problem when the hand overlaps the shoulder you know what I mean, is there any way to solve this problem even if it is crooked??, I tried a lot and did not reach a solution ..

Does the extra head rotation work with walking behaviors? It looks really natural!

Hi Okay Samurai what webcam and mic set up do you use that works best for motion capturing the dialogue with character animator?

I can only seem to get one pupil draggable at a time. I can either drag both, or one. The one I have most recently tagged as "draggable" is the one I can drag. Does anyone have an idea what's going on with my rig?

the motion of extra head rotation is so great. however the body behaviors is not working even following the same step.

Hy, i have only Hitfilm Express is this possible for Art-Stream & Co. !? Willy is amazing. Thanks!