Thursday, April 16, 2015

that new animation software tho

Adobe Character animator is new animating software offered by adobe. Instead of drawing frame by frame or editing keyframes, this program allows you to control a characters movements using your own movements. With the help of a webcam and mic they can record your voice and the character's lips will move along with it. You can create the layers of the character in illustrator or photoshop and bring them to the character animator it will do all the work for you. You don't have to make any complex rigs, because the program will do it for you according the names of the layers. Any type of movement can be made and you can even add particle effects as well. You can of course animate using mouse clicks too. 

I think its a really interesting program and I'd like to try it sometime. It does made the animating so much easier. Judging from the video, it looks pretty seamless. And its not just constrained to left, right, up and down movements. You can move back and forward as well which is really cool. I still appreciate the time and effort that goes into traditional animating and keyframe animation. I think this program should be used for scenes that are harder to animate and look natural. I wonder if you can use your entire body to animate these?

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