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Real-Time Animation with Adobe Character Animator

You're reading from   Real-Time Animation with Adobe Character Animator Animate characters in real time with webcam, microphone, and custom actions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246949
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Preparing Character Art for Rigging
2. Chapter 1: What You Need to Know Before Rigging and Animating FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Comparing Adobe Character Animator to Other Animation Apps 4. Chapter 3: Preparing a Character Rig in Photoshop 5. Part 2: Rigging Character Art for Animation
6. Chapter 4: Importing and Tagging Your Character 7. Chapter 5: Creating Control Handles and Behaviors 8. Chapter 6: Physics, Behaviors, and Meshes 9. Chapter 7: Assigning Mouths and Props with Triggers and Swap Sets 10. Chapter 8: Refining Layers and Exploring Optional Rig Features 11. Part 3: Animating and Refining Your Scene
12. Chapter 9: Working with Preset Actions 13. Chapter 10: Animating a Simple Sequence 14. Chapter 11: Rearranging, Polishing, and Enhancing Our Sequence 15. Chapter 12: Exporting, Editing, and Sharing Your Character Animator Sequence 16. Chapter 13: Additional Character Animator Tools and Features 17. Index 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Animating breathing and jaw animations

While Character Animator can lip-sync by switching mouth poses based on phonemes, we can enhance this effect even further by adding a Nutcrack Jaw behavior. This will allow the jaw to drop based on what the mouth is doing. As with the eyelids, this is an optional feature. We will also add a Breathing behavior for further exploration:

  1. Click on Mouths inside of 3/4th Head.
  2. Using the handle tool, click and add a handle below the mouth:
Figure 8.10: The new handle can be placed below the mouth

Figure 8.10: The new handle can be placed below the mouth

  1. On the Tags panel, click on the jaw icon to define the layer.
  2. At the bottom of the Tags panel is a plus sign next to Behaviors. Click on the plus sign and choose Nutcracker Jaw from the list:
Figure 8.11: Adding the Nutcracker Jaw behavior to the mouth will allow us to control the parameters when recording

Figure 8.11: Adding the Nutcracker Jaw behavior to the mouth will allow us to control the parameters when recording

  1. Next, click on the Body layer and add a handle in the middle...
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