Adobe Character Animator Advanced Techniques

The Next Phase In Motion Capture Live Animations

4.50 (28 reviews)
Udemy
platform
English
language
3D & Animation
category
instructor
496
students
1.5 hours
content
Oct 2018
last update
$39.99
regular price

What you will learn

Expand animations with special advanced techniques

Exploit special vector art attributes

Manage invisible physics including collisions

Incorporate video loops

Use face tracking on prerecorded video and apply to a puppet

Create more expressive eyes with clipping masks and swappable emotions

Rig an animal for a walk cycle

Description

Adobe Character Animator is a motion capture software making use of your webcam, keyboard triggers and audio input to create puppets that can be animated live.  As it's a relatively new and growing program, there's a lot that the novice animator can do but isn't obvious or apparent from the control scheme. Advanced Techniques covers many of those tips and tricks, from making backgrounds travel to using video cycles to having emotive eyes with clipping masks and rigging an animal like a horse.  

If you're new to Character Animator, check out my Beginner's course on the topic on my Udemy course channel!

Content

Automated Movements

Introduction
Cycling Video Layers
Capturing Face Performances From Prerecorded Video
Emotional Eyes
More Eyelid and Clipping Mask Techniques
Illustrator Puppets and Wiggler
Replays + Blending Takes

Physics Animation

Collision pt 1
Collision pt 2: Invisible Collisions
Collision Pt 3: Collision and Dangle On The Same Object
Particles Pt. 1
Particles Pt. 2 - Point and Shoot from a Character
Particles Pt. 3: Particles + Collision Together
Magnets

Walk Cycle Variations

Moveable Backgrounds
Non-Biped Walk Cycles 1: Attack Bug 1
Non-Biped Walk Cycles 2: Attack Bug 2
Non-Biped Walk Cycles 3: Horse

Sample Project: X-plaining The X-Men

Pt. 1: Character Design and Powers in After Effects
Pt. 2: After Effects Work
Pt. 3: Sound + FX
Final Thoughts

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Reviews

Musleh
April 16, 2023
This course was very frustrating as it discusses real advanced techniques, I gave it 4 stars because of the lack of resources which the instructor should have provided.
Jonathan
August 10, 2022
Ein sehr guter, intensiver Kurs mit fortgeschrittenen Techniken. Man nimmt sehr viel mit. Viel Praxis. Was mir auch gut gefallen hat, ist die Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Programmen: Photoshop, Illustrator und vor allem After Effects. Noch verbesserungswürdig: die Musik war teilweise zu laut.
Cas
May 25, 2020
he gose to fast and it is like all he is doing is enjoying you watch what he is doing at a fast rate .so learning from his videos is usless
Naomi
April 5, 2020
Because the tone is conversational so it is easy to follow (and not boring) and the content is exactly what I want to know. I feel like I am in the room standing over his shoulder, while he’s telling me everything I need to know.
Sam
May 21, 2018
Most of this was covered in the beginners course. The detail on how to do the advanced portion is not well developed. The cycle layers really need additional information on how to apply it to a body part, how to build a trigger for it, etc. Bringing in the information from a video file through After effects is the same, just pasting it does not give you proper results, you have to massage the information so it works correctly and none of that is covered. Instead of learning anything it was just a demonstration of the instructor trying to work through issues in the software.

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2/17/2018
course created date
8/17/2019
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