Cartoon Creation and Animation using Photoshop and Character Animator

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Learn how to create reusable characters, environment, edit audio tracks for explainer videos, short films, cartoons, commercials, creative live interactive characters music videos, and other media.

how to effectively create and animate a character inside of Adobe Character Animator! With the use of your video camera, microphone, and custom behaviors, you will learn how to create unique animations that can be used for business presentations, entertainment, and more!

More specifically, in this course, you will learn how to:

✅Design and Layout a Photoshop character for Adobe Character Animator import

✅Tag layers for lip-syncing and facial behaviors

✅Add special handles such as draggers to allow interactivity with the mouse

✅Create triggers for hide-able layers

✅Create Swap Sets for multi-phase layers

✅Auto lip-sync in the application

✅Lip sync using an external audio

✅Edit recorded actions

✅Work with backgrounds

✅Work with multiple puppets

✅Export animations through Adobe Media Encoder

✅Properly assemble rigs in Photoshop for Character Animator

✅Adding facial expressions using triggers and behaviors

✅Create Swap Sets for multi-phase items

✅Add dynamic motions with head turns and walk cycles

✅Create short films or cartoons with more than 3 characters having a dialogue in an apartment

✅Create and record cartoon animations for business purposes.

and many more

You will learn in detail how to animate the characters you create with your webcam and automated lip sync in Adobe's Character Animator!

We'll cover mouth shapes, layer placement, syncing an audio track to lips or creating your own audio for your character to voice, adding physics for more life-like movement, creating custom puppets, and even walk cycles.

In this course, you will learn how to use Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects to build our Characters and files. This software is essential to creating awesome and amazing characters for Character Animator.

This is a highly effective way to create reusable characters for explainer videos, short films, music videos, and other media.

KEY QUESTIONS:

What are the course requirements?

A Computer or laptop with at least 8GB of RAM

Webcam

Windows 10 OS

Will the certificate be issued?

Yes, a certificate of completion will be issued at the end of the course at No charge.

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Introduction to Photoshop interface and Tools

15 lectures

Photoshop Document and Home Screen

7 minutes

Artboard Tool

6 minutes

Selection Tools

8 minutes

Crop Tool

5 minutes

Eyedropper Tool

3 minutes

Eraser Tool

3 minutes

Paint Bucket

5 minutes

Pen Tool

6 minutes

Shape Tool

6 minutes

Option Panel

2 minutes

Layer Panel

8 minutes

Photoshop Interface Customization

6 minutes

Importing Images into Adobe Photoshop

3 minutes

Rotate Tool

2 minutes

Guide Layout in Design

4 minutes

Overview of 2D Animation and Adobe Character Animator

10 lectures

Introduction to 2D animation concepts.

5 minutes

Understanding the workflow and pipeline of 2D animation.

7 minutes

Introduction to Adobe Character Animator’s interface and tools.

22 minutes

Overview of how Character Animator integrates with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Audition, and Adobe After Effects.

11 minutes

Exploring Adobe Character Animator’s pre-built puppets.

6 minutes

Understanding behaviors, triggers, and performances.

17 minutes

Introduction to rigging: how the structure of a puppet works

30 minutes

Basic rigging

25 minutes

Introduction to Triggers

10 minutes

Ideation and Planning Stage using ChatGPT

17 minutes

Designing Environment and Characters in Photoshop

12 lectures

Introduction to Photoshop Interface

10 minutes

Brush Settings in Photoshop

11 minutes

Environment Sketch Part 1

34 minutes

Environment Sketch Part 2

30 minutes

Adding details to the Environment Part 1

40 minutes

Adding details to the Environment Part 2

38 minutes

Character Creation Face Design Part 1

35 minutes

Character Creation Face Design Part 2

23 minutes

Characters Body Part 1

10 minutes

Adding Colors to the Body

30 minutes

Creating the Second Character Chinedu

28 minutes

Creating the second Character Chinedu Part 2

42 minutes

Rigging Custom Characters in Adobe Character Animator

4 lectures

Importing Photoshop Puppets into Adobe Character Animator.

13 minutes

Rigging process in Detail and adding Limb IK behaviors to the arm

30 minutes

Testing puppet movements and troubleshooting rigging issues.

8 minutes

Adding Basic Physics Properties

5 minutes

Advanced Rigging Concepts

4 lectures

Adding swap sets for different hand gestures

23 minutes

Adding triggers to Blinking and Eyelids

9 minutes

Adding Triggers to the Pupils

17 minutes

Setting up walk cycles and movement behaviors.

43 minutes

Creating and Rigging Additional Elements

5 lectures

Resolving Issues that might arise

6 minutes

Frontal Design Walk Cycle

20 minutes

Frontal Frame By Frame Walk Cycle

43 minutes

Design Character in a Sitting Position

31 minutes

Resting the hand on the counter

17 minutes

Lip Syncing with Adobe Character Animator

5 lectures

Background and Characters Setup for Lip Sync

51 minutes

Tidying up and Adding Breathe Behaviour

51 minutes

Lip Sync Using Compute Lip Sync Take from Scene Audio

8 minutes

Advance Compute Lip Sync from Take Audio and Transcript

14 minutes

Adding Lip Sync to the Second Character

15 minutes

Introduction to Adobe After Effects

8 lectures

Introduction to Compositing in After Effects

2 minutes

Importing Files into After Effects

46 minutes

Adding Motion to Scene Elements and few enhancements

25 minutes

Replacing Footage in After Effects

4 minutes

Working on the Second Scene

23 minutes

Add Expressions using the Eyebrow

20 minutes

Second Character

18 minutes

Editing the Eyebrow

12 minutes

Performance-Based Animation

7 lectures

Right Profile Walk Cycle

37 minutes

Adding Extra in Scene 1

35 minutes

Voice over editing in Audition

15 minutes

Resolving Missing Footage Issues

2 minutes

Scene Compositing

39 minutes

Hand Gestures and Setup

21 minutes

Off Shoulder Shoot of the second character

15 minutes

Final Edits and Exports

5 lectures

Sound Effects

11 minutes

Importing Second Background

4 minutes

Adding Advance Facial Expression

50 minutes

Tidying Up before Export

19 minutes

Exporting Final Composition

11 minutes

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Am enjoying the step by step tutorial. That's very helpful

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Enjoying and gathering knowledge at the same time... Feels good

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