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Character Animator is an Emmy Award-winning desktop application

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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. It is automatically installed with

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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. It is used to generate real-time 2D animations to produce both live and non-live animation.

Description

Character Animator imports layered

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and

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documents into ''puppets'' which have ''behaviors'' applied to them. The ''puppets'' are then placed into a ''scene'', which can be viewed in the Scene panel and Timeline panel. Rigging is set up in the Puppet panel, though basic

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is fully automatic based on specific layer names like ''Right Eyebrow'' and ''Smile''. Properties of selected elements can be examined and changed in the Properties panel, including behavior parameters. 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''). Final 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. 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. Scenes can also be dropped directly into

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and Premiere Pro, using Dynamic Link to avoid rendering.

History

Character Animator was originally code-named "Animal". The following is the list of versions of Character Animator.

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* {{Animation editors Character Animator Character Animator Animation software 2D animation software Motion capture 2015 software

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