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

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803246949

Length 302 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Adobe Character Animator

Concepts

Animation

Author (1):

Chad Troftgruben

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

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

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What is Adobe Animate?

Adobe Animate is one of the most well-known animation apps. You may know of it under a different name, but it cemented its popularity in the 1990s. In this section, we will cover the following:

A brief history of Adobe Animate
The strengths of Animate
Using Animate with our Character Animator productions

With that said, let’s take a quick trip back in time.

Brief history of Adobe Animate

Adobe Animate is one of the longest-running 2D animation apps to exist, at least for the average consumer. While we won’t spend much time on its history, it’s always good to have a bit of context.

Created in 1996 under the name FutureSplash Animator, the app has undergone name changes and ownership changes from FutureWave Software, to Macromedia, and finally, to Adobe. The most popular name for this app was Flash.