Adobe Character Animator is an Emmy® award-winning character animation software. The programme uses a combination of your webcam and artificial intelligence to capture facial movements and voice with incredible accuracy and render those in real-time to 'puppets' on screen.
These 'puppets' can then be exported into other applications such as After Effects or Premiere Pro and overlaid on top of video footage or stills.Using Illustrator or Photoshop, you can easily create your own 'puppets' following a set naming convention for each layer representing a different part of the body.
Character Animator is a powerful piece of software, and the limits of use are endless. You could use it to create internal videos for onboarding new starters, to explain health and safety or fire escape videos. You could develop cartoons with it, use it as a spoken guide for a video clip, the list goes on.
The software comes bundled with a selection of ready made 'puppets', but to get the best out of it, we suggest you create your own, using Illustrator or Photoshop.
Suppose you don't use either of these packages to an intermediate level. In that case, we suggest you study either our Beginners Character Animator and Illustrator or Beginners Character Animator and Photoshop combo course. These combination courses are exclusive to Papa Pixel and represent the very best value for money.
One day Beginners Adobe Character Animator Course
01.) Getting started
02.) Using existing puppets
03.) Project panel
04.) Trigger panel
05.) The timeline
06.) The scene window
07.) The camera panel
08.) Properties panel
09.) Editing in Illustrator
10.) Editing in Photoshop
11.) Creating new projects
12.) Adding new puppets
13.) Exploring the rig
14.) Adding triggers
15.) How the puppets work
16.) Setting up your computer
17.) Using external equipment
18.) Recording tips
19.) Setting up the rest pose
20.) Storyboarding explained
21.) Dragger settings
22.) Eye gaze settings
23.) Facial settings
24.) Tweaking lip sync
25.) Working with the mesh
26.) Takes and cuts
27.) Recording takes
28.) Frame rates
29.) Planning the scene
30.) Storyboarding each scene
31.) Importing images
32.) Importing backgrounds
33.) Importing videos
34.) Importing external audio
35.) Saving the project
36.) Exporting as video
37.) Exporting video with alpha
38.) Using Dynamic Link
39.) Exporting single frames
40.) Exporting puppets
41.) Streaming
Most of our Adobe courses come with a free Adobe authorised training manual for your reference during and after the training. The courses where no manual is available come with comprehensive notes for you to take away with you. We always have a maximum of six delegates in our classrooms which will give you more one on one time with the instructor.
You are encouraged to ask us examples of how to do things that you need to learn for you role. We try and tailor a portion of the day to accommodate this, so that everybody leaves with relevant knowledge suited to their job.
Our trainers are all Adobe certified (Adobe Certified Instructors) and more importantly, have worked in relevant roles using all of the software they teach. We check all of our trainers credentials thoroughly before we employ them, to give you the student, the very best learning experience.
For those new to Character Animator and puppets.
For those new to Character Animator and puppets.
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