Adobe Character Animator Review 

Character Animator is so awesome! Great to see your take on it. I love how each part of your character can be animated as separate tracks. So you can record your audio, then go back and record head movements, then adjust eye gaze, hand positions, etc. Makes it super flexible and you don't have to get it right on the first take. Also, I learned everything I know from Okay Samurai! :)

This is epic! Thanks for sharing the info you've found so far.

Love seeing the shout out to Okay Samurai! Such an amazing channel for all sorts of tutorials on Animator! Great vid brad! I’m theory could you create all of the parts in procreate?

So glad you're back!

Looks cool,glad you're back.

This is a pretty round about method. If you need a lot of speech done you should put your audio into premiere, use the transcription feature (make any corrections there), export an srt transcript file, then in Character Animator in that transcript field (click on your audio clip) click import and put the srt file there and you have your entire transcript there to analyze. That way is extremely accurate just leaves a few holes for you to do manually. For the sections that “failed” I play them back and just speak those couple words a few times then record it to get it close and tweak it. That gives you long mouth animations the fastest possible way.

to my knowledge most twitch streamers with 2D characters that follow their movement use Live2D, which is a lot more complicated (might also be more advanced in some ways but I don't know), than Adobe Character Animator from what I'm seeing.

It's crazy because I recently just made an animation for the first time while learning after effects for the first time and this is the first time hearing about this. It definitely looks good especially how fast it is. I think with some letters it does close the mouth, I think that might be with rigging though. I definitely look forward to using this though it saves so much time.

this seems a lot easier then live 2d , hopefully with the stream tab u can use it to do vtubing , wolud love if u can teach us more into it

Nice, can't wait for this feature to appear in an affordable/hobby app.

YOU are gonna love it man!

Been meaning to dig into this program for a while. Might finally give it a proper shot.

I really want to use Character Animator. The ability to record and then alter the animations is something I wish a live2d software have. It would be so much better than the simple vtuber streaming stuff can offer. But Character Animator as an animation software is still very limited, I would really like more elements to work with and be creative about, full 360° eye-tracking is still missing. For now the work it does can only be used as a complimentary addition to videos instead of the main visual aspect of them. It really has potential to be great, but for now it's just not as good.

Love this brad!

I’m sure someone has already said this, but for longer dialogue you could also utilise Premiere Pros auto transcript feature to avoid having to type it all out too. Hopefully that will come to CH eventually too, since that makes the most sense.

This is filling my mind up with ideas

I'm glad to see you finally trying this piece of software. I'm thinking about integrating it into my tutorials since I don't put my face out there.

This actually seems pretty good, I can see alot of people like youtubers and streamers getting into this. But it would be interesting to see actual "shows" adopt this tech with their actors. The shows that use rigged based animations. I'm just wondering does it capture the whole body? In this you only had a medium shot of yourself. Also are you able to just import videos instead having to record?

Looks amazing!

it also comes with the photography package, which is basically photoshop and lightroom. I honestly have no idea why they put this in there, but im glad they have, it looks super useful - if i wanted to animate

My sync issues resolved when I switched all audio input and output settings to 16bit, 48kHz mono. Lot of us have mismatched input and output values and CA has to resample on the fly - which causes sync drift and other oddities. Live mic sessions don’t have this problem cuz it’s not looking ahead as it does for recorded files.

Looking fabulous. I’d love to animate but the time factor is really daunting. My first animation of a few minutes took me six weeks! All my spare time would go into it. Of course that was in 2009 on illustrator to do character design and background and transferring to flash to animate. I love what you do Brad… I think I’ll give it a go! 🤔… in my next holidays? Full time carer 😂 I’m praying for a miracle!

Yes Yes Yes! Happy to see more people start using CH :]

I’m pumped! 🔥

I like how it moved with your hair. I won't be able to do this unless it works with Affinity products. Maybe someday.

You're back!!!

hey thank you very much 😁😁

How do we export transparent backgrounds for any character?! I make the transparent background during creation but goes away during export. THANKS!!

How just how are u so good brad?

Do you have any idea how it will work with foreign languages? Does it just show the right mouth shape for the sound that you are making irrespective of whether it recognises the word?

Whoa. This is next level

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Great video... After years of ignoring it, perhaps it's time to revisit Character Animator for some of our studios client work. 👍

Can you make a video on top free/one time ,less expensive 2d animation softwares? I use Davinci resolve and know basic blender skills, use affinity apps too

Eu só uso ele tbm, é incrivel

@Brad Colbow Hi Brad, thank you for all the wonderful advice over the years! Question: Do you have any content on drawing accessories for drawing comfortably on the couch, in bed, at the desk with a tablet? Is there a popular single solution I could buy or do I get a separate stand for each occasion?

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Great Video! I wonder if you could combine the lip syncing process from Adobe Character Animator with a character rigged in After Effects using the Duik Bassel extension.

Brad, if you label things correctly in Clip Studio, and then Export the file as a PSD, will the linking work? Thanks!

This is amazing 🤩🤩🤩

Could I draw/create everything in Procreate and then export it to Photoshop to get this working?

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Hey Brad, off-topic but can you create an Adobe Fresco course? I don't have Procreate but I would love to see a Fr course!

DUDE! Character Animator is really cool! They hired me to design a character for Puppet Maker.

Nifty to quite nifty.

Short notice about the beginning- most Vtubers are actually rigged with a program by the name of Live2D, and tracked with (usually) Vtube studio. In fact, most vtubers (ESPECIALLY popular ones) I've seen talking about the tech behind vtubing don't know about Adobe Charactor Animator at all (and they say that Live2D is the only Vtuber tracking app.) Other than that, amazing video. I really enjoyed seeing what you had to say about this program, and I'm really glad it's gonna cut the amount of work you have to do for your videos. Thats awesome, man :)

I found you through your other channel, I was looking for some drawing for my daughter, 10. She really enjoyed the video.

This is so cool

can you make the body follow you ? and the head angle ?

Can you use characters you have drawn in Procreate?

One thing you don't mention is that if you want it working in OBS you have to install NDI which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Works on my laptop, but won't work on my desktop, and if it doesn't work then there is nothing you can do.

I'm not entirely sure if vtubers (the animated characters streamers) are using Character Animator. Most software I've seen for it are more designed specially for it, like Luppet, VRoid Studio, Live2D, VSeeFace, and VTube Studio. Though some of those layer tools do look similar. Is Character Animator new?

One of the best do you have it without cropped screen ?!

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Does only the head move the body stay straight 😮

Hey nice animation man

Yes so glad you played with this so i wouldn't have to. I can just jump in

Amazing

Yep, I discovered that i needed to buy the entire creative studio suite to get character animator. (Ow!) On the plus side, it does work very well when you set up your puppets in photoshop, record them in character animator, then produce the final video in after effects.

Hey Brad, can you use your own characters?

can we change the clothes of the characters?

How does this compare to Live2D?

3:20 Mhmmm rigs. Love it. Doing animation by hand is so. exhausting. I want such a program for Androiiid cries

I thought it was great when it first came out 5-6 years ago, but have since ditched Adobe for Serif and wouldn't pay for the Creative Suite just for this. 🙁

This would be cool to use on your 2nd channel haha

is there no way to track the hands?

Es un gran programa (CA) pero lo único es que es de la suit de Adobe, estoy migrando todos mis programas a una licencia que sea de un sólo pago

Hey Brad, can you do a ULTIMATE ANDROID SHOWDOWN, because i want to know what can be the "Procreate for android." (and also Krita)

wow

Wow

Cool

Moho .. do Moho for us. I think you didn't do it before

Oo can I do this with my drawings?! I haven’t even watched the video yet lol but I will

Just get "Crazy Talk" software and it´s supporting rigging software and save tons of money! They been doing this kind of stuff for over a decade now. And do it better then anyone in the least amount of time for your recordings.

brad help me i have a budget of 38 dollars and i wanna do digital art and on a screen tab not on a slate so wht should i do?

HIIIIII ❤️❤️❤️

And adobe’s stocks are going done. Why?

A wonderful tool, but more than 60 € a month is an insane amount of money for this. I would rent that software for maybe 20 €, maybe try it for 30 € a month (which still is a lot). But that price tag is just unbelievable.

Okay, thanks for the vtubing live2D rigging tutorial...

sadly the transcript thingy only works for english phonemes. but yea, it's good.

Brad I feel like you're going to be an awesome VTuber.

Wish CA was cheaper

*Que loko meu kkk*

So basically, easy an easy vtuber maker?

Such a sassy pose 🤣

Man, see this is why i get even more pissed at Adobe for forcing you to buy a stupid subscription for their software. JUST LET ME BUY THE ONE I WANT! I don't want anything other than THIS. And it's not worth paying a monthly fee for, just one price! Really wish industries would stop using Adobe just to force them to start actually being more reasonable with how they work. This software looks amazing, and i hope someone finds a way to straight up clone the software cause i just can't support Adobe's business practices.

Do a proper Vtuber Live2D rigging tutorial...

First time I've ever wanted an Adobe product...

Character Animator is great, but I refuse to use any of Adobe's products lol

First 1000

I wish I could afford it

Same way boomers say "just buy a house" a lot of people say "just pay for adobe lmao"

This is cool are u on IG to where I can ask u questions further

Wow

to my knowledge most twitch streamers with 2D characters that follow their movement use Live2D, which is a lot more complicated (might also be more advanced in some ways but I don't know), than Adobe Character Animator from what I'm seeing.