Preview: Starter Mode (Adobe Character Animator) 

This is brilliant! I could totally imagine this new mode as a mobile app. This is also great for teaching young students to create.

Thanks, Dave, simplified is better. Hope you can continue to simplify the Pro Mode and make editing the time line as easy a Premiere Pro.

Honored to design some of the "Starter Mode" puppets - and to help put Ch in the hands of the masses!

great video!!! This Software has been so helpful on my channel alone! Love how this is getting easier and more accessible for people to jump in and have some fun with animation!!!

I have been learning Character Animation for about 2 months now. I’m getting really good at making a puppet out of a photo. A cool ‘trick’ I’ve learned is to use the mouth from Dr Applebaum, and change the skin tone on the mouth visemes to match the face.

great job and agree with another persons post that it's a smart move for adobe. That allows levels of learning and as people learn they can expand into the more complicated levels. Keep up the great work.

This is a game changer for doing simple animations for my social media and save the complex triggers for streams

This is an amazing gift for those of us wanting to use it for quick teaching vids!

Hey Dave! Making a free mode is such a smart move from the Character Animator team! Considering how long it can be to make a puppet vs how easy it is to share it, I think splitting the software in two parts is the best idea possible. (Especially since the pro mode is available on the complete CC plan) The only thing that is missing from what I currently see is Mercury Transmit. As you probably know, Vtubing (Content creation with a virtual character) is getting more and more mainstream on RU-vid and Twitch, and it would make Adobe CH an amazing contender to the other options available at the moment.

Another great addition/edition! I can't wait to share this with my students. They are very creative and will put this to good use. Many thanks!

Nicely done. Its like what iMovie is to Final Cut Pro. Really a good introduction to animation. I do like that drag and and drop feature for triggers. That is really useful honestly i think that should be added to pro mode. Speaking of which Im also really looking forward to what is added next in pro mode. Hoping for something regarding hands and finger movements as well as more features for front views. Keep up the good work guys.

This is fantastic. Can you edit the puppets after you've picked one in photoshop or are you locked to the starter ones? Also using the NDI video do you still have the option of streaming this to twitch and the like?

Very cool! I can definitely see starting small projects this way and only jumping into pro-mode if fine-tuning is needed.

It would be a dream and a huge help if you added the streaming option😄. So that way people can make and easily sell character animator avatars to twitch streamers. Right now most vtubers use live2d to do avatar commissions because the client(streamer) doesn’t need to pay for the monthly live2d software subscription to use their avatar after it’s been rigged

Thank you so much for this! Just made my first animation with this. Very excited to try this out with custom puppets!

THIS IS INCREDIBLE NEWS! I'm definitely signing up for this

I couldn't find your video on how to trim data from the timeline, but I found the steps from the TutorTube channel. He has around 100 short videos on character animator. Just wanted to let you know.

I just uploaded a short scene from Resident Alien. I spent a lot of time building this animation, but it worked! Also, I used Camera 1 to zoom in using a trigger and changed the faces on the Alien using triggers. As before, I had to turn lip sync on and off as I performed the 2 characters.

Amazing!! Thank you so much for this :) Also want to add my voice to the people who are requesting a basic streamer mode. It would be so COOL to be able to open up making puppets for people in something other than Live2D.

This is amazing Dave! Just a question can we use multiple characters in this mode too?

Looks great!!! Can i use it with characters that i created or that i need to create them in a deferent way?

Fantastic. Have played with another Animation tool by a different company off and on but always found the learning curve to be quite high. This adobe tool looks so much easier and intuitive. Best of all its part of the Creative Cloud subscription. Is there a version of this planned for the iPad & iPhone?

This is great!!!, do we have an option to make the starter mode as a virtual camera so we can use it in our messaging apps like google meet? thanks

If CH puppet is made would I need the full pro version? Just working out the cost as character animator only available on the full CC plan.

Can custom charcters be imported to the starter mode?

Ready made poses just click away to perform an action this is awesome . Another topic I wonder if there's away we can take our puppets to puppets maker and perform changes on it is that possible ???

Hello! Are you able to change your canvas size? For example I am making a cartoon in HD 1920x1080 however I would like to animate the characters in 4k so when zooming in after effects I won't loose any clarity.

This is awesome! I hope this gets developed further!

soooo.....not all the backgounds seem to be made for starter mode. when switching for example to portrait - the puppet "floats" as he is not 'grounded'....in one room scene he is floating above the floor. on several backgrounds same thing. so - how the heck do we move the puppet's on-screen position (up. down. left. right.) since there is no obvious control or tool to grab the whole puppet? i tried searching everywhere for an answer to this problem - with zero luck. hope you answer.

Wow, I’ve been screaming for this for so long. I make these for work and have for a couple years now. I hope it works through NDI for zoom/OBS etc, otherwise what’s the point? Any user that needs this simplicity isn’t going to be constructing their video from scratch they want to use it live to talk to people. My CH use really picked up with the pandemic but after months of work and lots of $ I have to tell my clients: “well it’s all just for this video… no I can’t give it to you to just play with unless you want to subscribe to Adobe and learn this scary interface.” It’s been very frustrating. Anyway, can’t wait to try it.

The trigger panel needs to be in the pro mode Dave

This is cool will there be an option to customize this and use your own puppet/presets

Dave, Thank you for this excellent tutorial. I have made myself some high-quality assets that are saved as .gif These assets include cars on move, raining clouds e.tc I tried to import them in character animator yet, this file type is not compatible. And I was wondering...is there a workaround to import gifs or other image sequences in Character Animator, that could give more vividness and movement to our project?

Great job, my only problem with character animator is the time line

How di I set the proper pins throughout the body on a blank puppet in order to make it follow body tracking

This is nice. Can you still not do a quadruped walk cycle easily?

Please has this version been fully released, and if it has what version is it 22.4?

Hi, Is the character Leonard the one in the video available to download, We wanted to use it for some reference to a different character

Can you not change the size of the character. So the whole body can be in the scene

The volume of my mic itself is so low that when the character speaks, the shape of his mouth is not free-flowing. Is there a way to set the microphone volume within the program?

This is amazing. Can we use our own characters with our own triggers?

does adobe animate audio recording support other languages? I mean if speak Arabic, will the puppet's mouth sync?

Can i use these apps on my ipad pro cant find anything on google that describes how ? I feel so stupid to ask

Genial como sempre, abraços do Brasil

is this call motion capture or what guy? so cool!

You are great! Keep on dude 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

What a game changer!

How do you give triggers their own icon? That right there is already game changing

Can I drag the triggers in pro? That would be great.

Yes thank you for more tutorials thank you thank you

Really love the free version of this program but i can't believe it costs $600/yr and has to be bundled with the entire adobe cc suite. Anyone know alternatives?

thank you sir 😊

So cleaver :)

Why can't I access Starter mode Im up to date with payments

Wish i had this when i started 🤣

please make the option to draw your own characters!❤️

next, try create NFT with adobe character

Is anyone else having an issue opening their Beta version?

I really enjoy your videos. Thank you for being helpful and informative. I have begun making my own animations using #characteranimator in conjunction with an array of other Adobe products. I would love if you would check them out! Take care!

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*Adding new and new features to those who use the FREE Version* (such as creating their own characters, rigging, behaviors, etc.) * I do not think it is entirely fair for those who pay* . Of course, I understand the division of the application for increasing the adoption rate, for the new ones in this world, but at the moment *what you offer in the FREE version is more than enough* . I consider that the difference between the FREE and PRO is not so big now, and the addition of even more features in the future for the FREE Version will decrease the difference between those two. *I think that Character Animator is a top application and the free version should remain a sample* . Since considerable things can be done in the FREE Version now, I'm wondering about the updates for the PRO Version. It just would not be nice for those who do pay for the complete Adobe Bundle to realize that many things are available for free now... I am a little bit disappointed as a PRO User. Maybe I'm wrong. I hope that creating characters, rigging them and adding behaviors, triggers will remain the options only for PRO users and maybe some new updates for those who do pay significant money annually will be announced soon. Of course that this is a logical step from a business point of view, but I think it should stop here. We are waiting for new updates for the PRO Version. I hope you can take my opinion into consideration.