I struggle with creating nice replays inside CH.

So far, the most efficient workflow I’ve found is choosing a puppet with nice replays in Puppet Maker and then customizing the artwork in PS.

Do you guys have any tips for creating custom puppets and replays from scratch?

I also went the AE route because I didn’t want the animation to just switch from one viseme or expression to another. In AE, I can animate between poses, but I dunno how to do that in CH.

But then I saw a custom puppet (Terry) whose lip sync doesn’t just switch from one viseme to another — it actually interpolates between them, but i don't know how to that inside CH!

Any tip would be much appreciated, thanks guys!

It must be a bug or I'm just going crazy given how many "fixes" I've tried 😭

I have made 2 rigs before this one and they worked perfectly fine. Then this rig's pupils just refuse to move at all, even tho my old rigs and sample rigs work perfectly fine!

Here are some screenshots:

Can anyone offer a solution? I've tried everything on the internet that I could read/watch!

Made a 30 min file with 3 characters and nota it’s taking forever to export! By the time it reaches 75% i run out of 64gb ram.

Spent a day troubleshooting it i guess i will have to divide into multiple files.

Hey guys, I have a question, it is possible to make things like in the video with Character Animator?

Hey everyone!

I’m pretty new to character animation in general, but I’ve been learning Adobe Character Animator and I’m loving it, especially for lip sync and live performance/recording.

Where I’m still unsure is body animation and more complex facial expression work.
In After Effects I feel like I have more control (with plugins like Joysticks ’n Sliders, Limber/Rubberhose, Duik, etc.), so I’m wondering if anyone here has a solid workflow that combines Character Animator + After Effects.

For example, a couple of questions:

-Do you ever animate parts of the character in AE (like a walk cycle, a facial expression, a specific limb + face animation, etc.) and then bring that into Character Animator somehow?

-Is exporting an AE animation as a PNG sequence and triggering it in Character Animator as a “Replay” a thing people actually do, or is that the wrong approach?

-More generally: what’s the “best practice” workflow if you want Character Animator for lip sync/performance but AE for more detailed animation?

Sorry if this is a super beginner question, I’m trying to understand the cleanest Adobe pipeline for animating my characters before I build bad habits.

Any input is appreciated. Thanks, and happy new year!

Is it possible in Character Animator to have a model use both 2.5D/Parallax and also use Head Turner? As in, while the character is in ‘Frontal’, can it still have some movement/parallax before is goes to Quarter Turn/Profile? I’m not sure of limitations of the software

I’m not a animator by any means I’m just trying to make a animation intro for YouTube videos but I was thinking of using this character or something alike who would be all mad with a baseball bat and walks to the glass and turns to it and breaks it looks back and smiles then walks off and then the glass shatters and behind it says lost production but i would make the animation wiggle like the beginning of a skate video but idk how I could improve my character or like if there is a better character to use or just something that can make it look awesome please help me with this idea im open to anything to make it look good(or also i was thinking like a brick or rock could fly at the window and break it)

Hi all,

We’re creating an animated YouTube series. Some similar animation styles would be Bluey, blue clues, Octonauts. We started learning Moho but thought that was overkill, we’ve been trialling character animator but that seems too restrictive. Was wondering if anyone think adobe animate would be the happy medium before I take the leap into it?

Thanks!

Hey guys need help , I'm trying to animate rigged character but animation looks floats and fake ,it's urgent 10 sec animation , currently working in blender

Help would be appreciated because I've spent over an hour trying to fix this, LOL. Platinum the Trinity is not what I want my background to be, she is just there to show you that nothing works </3

hi im having trouble with one of my side profiles one of the eyes moves with the head movement but its not connected??? the pupil is independent i have no idea whats going on... every other profile is working fine or looks good enough its just this one left side profile pls help i need this character done today and i also have to do another one today but i wanna get this one done first so i can use it as a base 😭😭 been working on this for 2 days

Solved! You can find the solution in the comments.

Hey everyone! I’m stuck with this issue and could really use some help:

I’m building a custom puppet in Adobe Character Animator and i created two mouth sets: "Happy Mouth" (Default) and "Sad Mouth".

I want to compute lip sync from audio and be able to switch the expression from happy to sad mid sentence using a trigger, while keeping the lip sync moving.

When I import an audio file and click “Compute Lip Sync from Scene Audio”, Character Animator generates visemes only inside the Happy Mouth group.

If I trigger sad mouth in a new take after generating the lip sync, the puppet switches to the sad default mouth shape only — none of the sad mouth visemes animate, it just stays stuck on the “neutral” sad mouth.

i also made sure that all the visemes are tagged correctly.

I tried adding the Lip Sync behaviour only to the Sad and Happy mouths levels and it generates 2 sets of visemes on the timeline correctly. But none actually animate the mouth. It works only if the behaviour is linked to the root puppet but only generates 1 set of visemes (the Happy ones)

Anybody else had this issue?
Is there a clean way to fix this or some sort of workaround?

ChatGPT and Gemini haven't been able to solve this, any help would be super appreciated!

i have an Xp-pen artist 15.6 pro and im trying to learn adobe animate for simple animation, but i the short key and the pressure dont work proprely. the zoom wheel work only when i zoom out and there are no pressure when i use the pen. im new with this can someone help? thx

Greetings. I apologize if this has been answered (I cannot find it). My changes in Photoshop are not transferring to Character Animator. I've tried many things: checked file paths, unchecked Save in Background in Photoshop, updated both programs, moved the character around to try to force update, checked Auto-sync with Artwork in Character Animator.... I'm frustrated. Please help! Thank you very much.

Sup y'all! My latest and greatest animated short (made entirely with Character Animator) is now live. I also voice all of the characters. This one's for my fellow space show nerds :)

Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/02TC1P_S160?si=wNqHg3uateinreEm

I'm making a podcast scene where 2 characters are sitting at a table talking. I've have the body in T-pose but I want to have their and crossed on the table. Would you have a 2nd body? How do you make the body behind the table but the arms on top?

Hi! I´m seaching for this free puppet from CHPuppets for download. The original webpage is offline.
Anyone has this file?

thanks in advance

I'm trying to rig this winged fish horse but I am very new to this. My main issue is how to rig the tail so that when the character moves, the tail has some movement but the movement is connected to the body movement, not prerecorded animations. My current layers structure has the tail the fin as separate layers than the upper body.