Rigging in Adobe Character Animator is the process of adding special animation information to an imported PSD (Adobe Photoshop) or AI (Adobe Illustrator) file. In this tutorial, we're going to walk through creating a character completely from scratch, learning how to set up your artwork and add things like tags, handles, behaviors, sticks, and more in Character Animator's Rig mode. You can follow along and create your own character, and by the end you should have a customized creation ready for your next animated project!
0:00 Intro
1:13 Photoshop vs. Illustrator
3:35 Artwork File Setup
7:40 Making the Head
9:46 Making the Body
18:17 Importing Your Character
21:15 Rigging Basics
26:08 Arm Rigging
33:55 Eye Rigging
42:14 Customizing Behaviors
47:35 Mouth Rigging
1:04:39 Independence
1:07:23 Inverse Kinematics
1:13:00 Triggers
1:31:05 15 Basic Rigs Walkthrough
Free 15 Basic Rigs project download at https://www.adobe.com/go/chresources
Related videos:
Intro to Character Animator: https://youtu.be/G9DkEIYJ2lo
Walking: https://youtu.be/gv_2Upvtm-M
Head Turns & Parallax: https://youtu.be/g1wbw6-7zM4
Body Tracking: https://youtu.be/e85HGSAS80g
Triggers: https://youtu.be/WzYJbZYhxmk
Creating Lip Sync Mouths: https://youtu.be/sc9S65Zn9XQ
Physics: https://youtu.be/T-7uTIfXW8E
Basic Eye Rigging: https://youtu.be/5SxNChhm0jo
Replays: https://youtu.be/mZioGOAt8RE
Download Character Animator: https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html
Get free puppets: http://adobe.com/go/chexamples (official adobe puppets) / http://okaysamurai.com/puppets/ (okay samurai puppet pack)
Check out the official forums: https://adobe.com/go/chfeedback
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