| Length | Under 3 weeks |
| Effort | 2 hours per week |
| Price | $ 155 |
| Subject | Design, Art |
| Level | Intermediate |
| Languages | English |
| Video Transcripts | None |
Animate characters you create with your web cam and automated lip sync in Adobe's Character Animator!
Motion capture puppets are great for:
- explainer video animations
- short films + cartoons
- commercials
- creative live interactive characters
- motion comics
- anything needing reusable characters - no need to redraw frames or set keyframes anytime a character moves!
We'll cover mouth shapes, layer placement, syncing an audio track to lips or creating your own audio for your puppet to voice, adding physics for more life-like movement, creating custom puppets and even walk cycles.
This course utilizes Adobe Photoshop to build our puppets and files are exported to Adobe After Effects, so both programs are essential to using Character Animator effectively.
This is a highly effective way to create reusable characters for explainer videos, short film, music videos and other media.
Who this course is for:- Beginning animators.
- People with interest in motion capture programs.
- Creatives looking for new means of self expression.
What you'll learn
- Create their own motion capture puppets using Adobe Character Animator and Photoshop
- Set physics on their animated puppets
- Record voiceover or sync pre-existing dialogue to their puppet's mouths
- Incorporate their Character Animator puppets into Adobe After Effects
Course syllabus
Meet the instructors
David Miller
Multimedia Artist
David was born in 1977 in Omaha, NE. He graduated with his BFA in Photography from Arizona State University in 2006, creating portrait series that reflected both the hyperkinetic films, games and comics of the 1980s and 1990s, as well as more humanist documentary work with Indigenous communities in America and Australia.
After ASU he became a teaching artist as well as exhibing around the Southwest/ West Coast and been published in numerous magazines such as Orion, View Camera, B+W/ Color, and others. In 2014 he was named as one of the top 100 Creatives of Arizona by New Times Magazine. He currently lives in Chandler with wife Vesna and 2 children, Patrick and Magdalena.