Master 2D Animation with Adobe Character Animator – From Zero to Pro

About Course

Requirements

A subscription to the Adobe Creative Cloud to access Character Animator, Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere
No animation experience is necessary. The app is meant to be user friendly for newcomers and we will be going step by step

Description

Adobe Character Animator is a unique app that can produce animated characters with ease. With a few clicks to setup, you can control a cartoon character with your mouse and keyboard. Not only that, you can use your microphone and web cam to create true motion captured characters that come to life with a wide range of assigned behaviors. You will learn how to take all this and record an animation to be shared or edited with another app.

More specifically, in this course, you will learn how to:

Properly layout a Photoshop character for easier Character Animator setup
Tag layers for lip syncing and facial behaviors
Tag and define body parts for limb movements
Add special handles such as draggers to allow interactivity with the mouse
Create triggers for hide-able layers
Create Swap Sets for multi-phase layers, such as hand poses
Auto lip sync in the application
Lip sync using external audio
Record a puppet using full motion body tracking
Create a puppet that can turn their head and body
Edit recorded actions
Work with backgrounds
Work with multiple puppets
Learn about the Stream tab for OBS performances
Edit your animation with Premiere and After Effects
Export animations through Adobe Media Encoder

By the time you’re done with this course you should be able to lay out your own PSD based characters, properly tag, fix errors and animate them using your mouse, keyboard, face, voice and body.

Who this course is for:

Beginners to animation looking to create their first project
Individuals looking for creative business advertising solutions
Streamers looking to add an animated avatar to their showcases
Animators looking for a new way to approach animation

✅Design and Layout a Photoshop character for Adobe Character Animator import
✅Tag layers for lip-syncing and facial behaviors
✅Add special handles such as draggers to allow interactivity with the mouse
✅Create triggers for hide-able layers
✅Create Swap Sets for multi-phase layers
✅Auto lip-sync in the application
✅Lip sync using an external audio
✅Edit recorded actions
✅Work with backgrounds
✅Work with multiple puppets
✅Export animations through Adobe Media Encoder
✅Properly assemble rigs in Photoshop for Character Animator
✅Adding facial expressions using triggers and behaviors
✅Create Swap Sets for multi-phase items
✅Add dynamic motions with head turns and walk cycles
✅Create short films or cartoons with more than 3 characters having a dialogue in an apartment
✅Create and record cartoon animations for business purposes.
and many more
You will learn in detail how to animate the characters you create with your webcam and automated lip sync in Adobe's Character Animator!
We'll cover mouth shapes, layer placement, syncing an audio track to lips or creating your own audio for your character to voice, adding physics for more life-like movement, creating custom puppets, and even walk cycles.
In this course, you will learn how to use Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects to build our Characters and files. This software is essential to creating awesome and amazing characters for Character Animator.
This is a highly effective way to create reusable characters for explainer videos, short films, music videos, and other media.

Course Content

Introduction to Photoshop Tools and Interface

1.Photoshop Document and Home Screen

00:00
2.Artboard Tool

00:00
3.Selection Tool
4.Crop Tool

00:00
5.Eyedropper tool

00:00
6.Eraser tool

00:00
7.Paint Bucket Tool

00:00
8.Pen Tool

00:00
9.Shape Tool

00:00
10.Option Panel

00:00
11.Layer panel

00:00
12.Photoshop Interface Customization

00:00
13.Importing Images into Adobe Photoshop

00:00
14.Rotate Tool

00:00
15.Guide Layout in Design

00:00

Basic Concepts

17.Introduction to 2D Animation Concepts

00:00
18.Understanding the workflow and pipeline of 2D Aniamtion

00:00
19.Introduction to Adobe Character Animators Interface and Tools

00:00
20.Overview of how Character Animator integrates with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Audition, and Adobe After Effects.

00:00
21.Exploring Adobe Character Animator’s pre-built puppets.

00:00
22.Understanding behaviors, triggers, and performances.

00:00
23.Introduction to rigging: how the structure of a puppet works

00:00
24.Basic rigging

00:00
25.Introduction to Triggers

00:00
26.Ideation and Planning Stage using ChatGPT

00:00

Lesson Video Designing Environment and Characters in Photoshop

27.Introduction to Photoshop Interface

00:00
27.Brush Settings in Photoshop

00:00
28.Environment Sketch Part 1

00:00
29.Environment Sketch Part 2

00:00
30.Adding details to the Environment Part 1

00:00
31.Adding details to the Environment Part 2

00:00
32.Character Creation Face Design Part 1

00:00
33.Character Creation Face Design Part 2

00:00
34.Characters Body Part 1

00:00
35.Adding Colors to the Body

00:00
36.Creating the Second Character Chinedu

00:00
37.Creating the second Character Chinedu Part 2

00:00

About Course

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for:

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

Introduction to Photoshop Tools and Interface

1.Photoshop Document and Home Screen

2.Artboard Tool

3.Selection Tool

4.Crop Tool

5.Eyedropper tool

6.Eraser tool

7.Paint Bucket Tool

8.Pen Tool

9.Shape Tool

10.Option Panel

11.Layer panel

12.Photoshop Interface Customization

13.Importing Images into Adobe Photoshop

14.Rotate Tool

15.Guide Layout in Design

Basic Concepts

17.Introduction to 2D Animation Concepts

18.Understanding the workflow and pipeline of 2D Aniamtion

19.Introduction to Adobe Character Animators Interface and Tools

20.Overview of how Character Animator integrates with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Audition, and Adobe After Effects.

21.Exploring Adobe Character Animator’s pre-built puppets.

22.Understanding behaviors, triggers, and performances.

23.Introduction to rigging: how the structure of a puppet works

24.Basic rigging

25.Introduction to Triggers

26.Ideation and Planning Stage using ChatGPT

Lesson Video Designing Environment and Characters in Photoshop

27.Introduction to Photoshop Interface

27.Brush Settings in Photoshop

28.Environment Sketch Part 1

29.Environment Sketch Part 2

30.Adding details to the Environment Part 1

31.Adding details to the Environment Part 2

32.Character Creation Face Design Part 1

33.Character Creation Face Design Part 2

34.Characters Body Part 1

35.Adding Colors to the Body

36.Creating the Second Character Chinedu

37.Creating the second Character Chinedu Part 2

Lesson Video Rigging Custom Characters in Adobe Character Animator

38.Importing Photoshop Puppets into Adobe Character Animator.

39.Rigging process in Detail and adding Limb IK behaviors to the arm

40.Testing puppet movements and troubleshooting rigging issues.

41.Adding Basic Physics Properties

Lesson Video Advanced Rigging Concepts

42.Adding swap sets for different hand gestures

43.Adding triggers to Blinking and Eyelids

44.Adding Triggers to the Pupils

45.Setting up walk cycles and movement behaviors.

Lesson Video Creating and Rigging Additional Elements

46.Resolving Issues that might arise

47.Frontal Design Walk Cycle

Frontal Frame By Frame Walk Cycle

49.Design Character in a Sitting Position

50.Resting the hand on the counter

Lesson Video Lip Syncing with Adobe Character Animator

51.Background and Characters Setup for Lip Sync

52.Tidying up and Adding Breathe Behaviour

53.Lip Sync Using Compute Lip Sync Take from Scene Audio

54.Advance Compute Lip Sync from Take Audio and Transcript

55.Adding Lip Sync to the Second Character

Lesson Video Introduction to Adobe After Effects

56.Introduction to Compositing in After Effects

57.Importing Files into After Effects

58.Adding Motion to Scene Elements and few enhancements

59.Replacing Footage in After Effects

60.Working on the Second Scene

61.Editing the Eyebrow

62.Add Expressions using the Eyebrow

63.Second Character

Lesson Video Performance-Based Animation

64.Right Profile Walk Cycle

65.Adding Extra in Scene 1