Head-turning, jaw-dropping animations.

Create 2D animations for live broadcasts, student projects and cartoons. Or just wow your friends on social media.

  • Start with a character.

  • Start with a character.

    Build your character from scratch in Illustrator or Photoshop — or start with one of the puppets already available in Character Animator.

  • Animations with legs — and arms and heads.

    Getting your character to move doesn’t take a lot of work. Control gestures like waving with your keyboard or MIDI device. Movements can be saved as buttons, sliders or knobs so they’re easier to remember than key commands. And you can smooth transitions between facial poses for a hand-animated look.

  • Animations with legs — and arms and heads.
  • Start with a character.

  • Put your best face forward.

    Character Animator tracks your facial expressions — from raised eyebrows to moving lips — in real time and records your motion and voice using your webcam and microphone. So when you look surprised, happy or angry, your character does, too.

  • It’s showtime.

    Send your character out into the world. Go live on Facebook or TV. Amuse your friends on social media. Or send it to Adobe Premiere Pro CC or After Effects CC to include in bigger projects like a film or cartoon.

    See how we helped the bumbling Mr Bean interact with his devoted fans in real time on Facebook.
    Watch the video ›  |  Read the blog ›
  • Start with a character.
 

See what new can do.

Character Animator is always getting better, with new features rolling out regularly. And with your Creative Cloud membership, you get them as soon as we release them. Here are some of the latest updates.
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Improved trigger workflows

   

Improved trigger workflows
Create, edit and organise triggers with convenient layer management and drag and drop actions between panels.
More realistic Particle Physics

   

More realistic Particle Physics
Now particles can build on top of each other and react — snowflakes can accumulate to cause an avalanche and bricks can stack up then collapse in a pile.
Easily align animations

   

Easily align animations
Scene Snapshot is a new onion-skin display feature that gives you a frame-by-frame reference for comparing the movements of your animations.
Countdown to Record

   

Countdown to Record
A new three-second countdown ensures that your character and puppet are in the right pose before recording starts.

Getting started is fast and easy.

Dive right in with our step-by-step tutorials and get inspired by the creative community.
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Getting started is fast and easy.

Choose the best app for your animation project.


After Effects CC
If you want to create cinematic film titles, intros, transitions and more, After Effects is the app for you. It lets you animate type from scratch or with presets right inside the app, add transitions, combine video and images or add effects like snow or fog to get just the look you want.
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Animate CC
Create interactive vector animations for games, apps and the web or animate infographics or tutorials. Quickly publish your animations to multiple platforms to reach viewers on desktop, mobile and TV.
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Find the plan that’s right for you.

Creative Cloud All Apps
Get Character Animator and the entire collection of creative apps for just 60,49 €/mo incl. of VAT.
Students and teachers
Save 65% on the entire collection of Creative Cloud apps. Just 19,66 €/mo incl. of VAT.
Business
Industry-leading creative apps with simple license management and easy deployment. Starting at 29,99 €/mo excl. VAT

Make it. Creative Cloud.

Character Animator is part of Creative Cloud, which also includes Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator and all our other amazing apps. It’s everything you need to turn your brightest ideas into your best work and share it with the world.
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