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75 Lessons

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English

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Jun 17, 2025

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

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

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What You’ll Learn?

✅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 Syllabus

Lesson Video Rigging Custom Characters in Adobe Character Animator

4 Lessons0 Quiz

38.Importing Photoshop Puppets into Adobe Character Animator.

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

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40.Testing puppet movements and troubleshooting rigging issues.

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41.Adding Basic Physics Properties

00:00

Lesson Video Advanced Rigging Concepts

4 Lessons0 Quiz

42.Adding swap sets for different hand gestures

00:00

43.Adding triggers to Blinking and Eyelids

00:00

44.Adding Triggers to the Pupils

00:00

45.Setting up walk cycles and movement behaviors.

00:00

Lesson Video Creating and Rigging Additional Elements

5 Lessons0 Quiz

46.Resolving Issues that might arise

00:00

47.Frontal Design Walk Cycle

00:00

Frontal Frame By Frame Walk Cycle

49.Design Character in a Sitting Position

00:00

50.Resting the hand on the counter

00:00

Lesson Video Lip Syncing with Adobe Character Animator

5 Lessons0 Quiz

51.Background and Characters Setup for Lip Sync

52.Tidying up and Adding Breathe Behaviour

00:00

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

00:00

54.Advance Compute Lip Sync from Take Audio and Transcript

00:00

55.Adding Lip Sync to the Second Character

00:00

Lesson Video Performance-Based Animation

7 Lessons0 Quiz

64.Right Profile Walk Cycle