More accurate face tracking and lip sync track reordering and snapping in the timeline transparency grid improved performance bug fixes Markerless face tracking layered PSD & AI import WAV & AIFF import PNG sequence export WAV export The following is the list of versions of Character Animator. History Ĭharacter Animator was originally code-named 'Animal'.

Scenes can also be dropped directly into After Effects and Premiere Pro, using Dynamic Link to avoid rendering. Live output can be sent to other applications running on the same machine via the Syphon protocol (Mac only) or Adobe Mercury Transmit on both Mac and Windows. Live inputs include a webcam (for face-tracking), microphone (for live lip sync), keyboard (for triggering layers to hide/show), and mouse (for warping specific handles).įinal output of a scene can be exported to a sequence of PNG files and a WAV file, or any video format supported by Adobe Media Encoder. Properties of selected elements can be examined and changed in the Properties panel, including behavior parameters. Rigging is set up in the Puppet panel, though basic rigging is fully automatic based on specific layer names like Right Eyebrow and Smile. The puppets are then placed into a scene, which can be viewed in the Scene panel and Timeline panel. It is used to generate real-time 2D animations to produce both live and non-live animation.Ĭharacter Animator imports layered Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator documents into puppets which have behaviors applied to them. It is automatically installed with Adobe After Effects CC 2015 to 2017 and is also available as a standalone application which one can download separately as part of a Creative Cloud all-apps subscription.

Windows 10 X64 only Version 1909 or later, MacOS 10.15 and laterįreemium for Starter mode, trialware/ software as a service for Pro modeĪdobe Character Animator is a desktop application software product that combines real-time live motion-capture with a multi-track recording system to control layered 2D puppets based on an illustration drawn in Photoshop or Illustrator.

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