CHARACTER ANIMATOR FEATURES
Create expressive animation with facial motion capture.
Bring a cartoon character’s face to life with real-time facial motion capture and automatic lip sync using Adobe Character Animator.
Use your own facial expressions to make a character talk.
With a human face and a laptop, you can easily create a video with an animated character. Performance capture technology in Adobe Character Animator works with your computer’s microphone and camera to create a powerful lip sync and facial motion capture solution. Face tracking applies your facial data to an animated character, called a puppet, as you move your head and talk.
Start with a predesigned character.
Choose a preloaded puppet from the Character Animator home screen to explore facial motion capture. Then watch it come alive as you move.
Create a customised avatar from a template.
Choose a simple character from the home screen and then edit their facial features. You can even copy and paste features from one character to another.
Sync with uploaded or live video and audio.
Line up the puppet’s face with yours during live video, using markerless facial capture. Speak into your computer mic and the puppet will lip sync in real time or upload prerecorded audio for your puppet to mimic.
Add realistic details like hair movement.
Choose what moves on your character and how, in tandem with the facial animation, using the capture system’s Physics tools to apply gravitational laws.
Design a high-quality animated face from scratch.
Quickly toggle between Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator and Character Animator to create a unique character of your own. This innovative facial motion capture software is integrated with Photoshop and all of Creative Cloud to make the design process flow.
App integration makes facial edits easy.
Select your puppet and go to Edit › Edit original to open your character in Photoshop or Illustrator. Changes you make there will automatically carry over into Character Animator.
Let helpful in-app tutorials guide you.
Visit the home screen of Character Animate to explore animation production tutorials, exciting new features and fun customisable characters.
Animate a sample face with motion capture data.
Re-create movement intuitively. Character Animator’s beginner-friendly tools are also advanced enough for professional animators. Your puppet will mimic the movement of your eyebrows, nose, mouth, pupils, head, voice and more.
- Choose it:
Double-click a predesigned character from the home screen in Character Animator. - Check it:
Be sure your laptop camera and microphone are enabled in the app. Check for your face and sound waves to show up in the Camera & Microphone panel. - Sync it:
Turn your gaze forward and click Set Rest Pose under Camera & Microphone to apply tracking points to your face. - Record it:
Use the Record and Stop buttons to record a clip of the character mimicking your facial motion and voice as you move and talk in real time. - Export it:
Save your project. Then click File › Export to transform your scene into a video file.
Follow along to start animating faces.
Check out helpful tutorials to get rolling on face capture — from designing a cartoon face one feature at a time to walking through entire character animations, limbs and all.
Design a basic face from a template.
Turn a Character Animator template into a customised puppet of any kind.
Create animated eyes and eyeballs.
Understand how to create eyes and eyeballs that move the way you want.
Learn the ins and outs of mouth shape.
Gain insight into making your character’s mouth and its movements look realistic.
Animate a full character from eyes to limbs.
Go through the motions of animating a whole puppet, including face and body.
How to get Character Animator.
Start for free or get it as part of the Creative Cloud Pro plan.
Character Animator Starter
Free
- Get started — no experience needed.
- Access basic features to create and export animations in minutes.
- Choose from predesigned puppets.
- Save time with select gestures.
- Create with real-time face tracking.
- Have fun without any commitment.
Creative Cloud Pro
Regularly at ₹2,714.00/mo Alternatively at ₹999.00/moincl. GST
- Get Character Animator and 20+ apps: Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and more.
- Access all Character Animator pro features.
- Create multiple characters and original puppets with Puppet Maker.
- Make your own movements and gestures.
- Create with real-time face and body tracking.
- Livestream your characters.
Find the Creative Cloud plan that’s right for you.
Creative Cloud Pro
Save 63% on 20+ creative apps. Ends Nov 13. First year only. View terms.
Students and teachers
Pay just ₹199.00/moincl. GST for 20+ creative apps with Creative Cloud Pro. First year only. Ends Nov 13. View terms.
Business
Save 55% on Creative Cloud Pro for teams. First year only. Ends Nov 13. View terms
Purchase by phone: 1800 102 5567
