Puppet Maker

Puppet Maker is a feature that allows us to get up and run quickly with Character Animator. You can generate a puppet using a series of parameters that are ready to be controlled using your mouse, camera, mic, and Behaviors. This process is similar to Characterizer but provides more control without using photos or our faces to generate a result.

This feature is easy to launch and use. Here is what we need to do:

1. With Character Animator open, make sure you’re on the Home screen:

Figure 13.1: The welcome screen for Character Animator

2. Click New Project so that we can keep this separated from the Chat_with_Chaz.chproj file we were working with.
3. Name the new file Chapter_13_Additional_Features.chproj and find a safe place for it. Click Save.
4. Go to File > Open Puppet Maker...:

Figure 13.2: You can access Puppet Maker at any time to add new puppets to a project

A new window will...