Animate in real time. Really.

Get Character Animator as part of Adobe Creative Cloud for just US$52.99/mo.

Eye-opening animations. In eye-opening time.

Character Animator uses your expressions and movements to animate characters in real time. It’s so fast, you can livestream while you work to wow audiences every step of the way.

Get a move on.

Your performance can bring a character to life. Using your webcam and microphone, Character Animator revolutionizes live-performance animation with automatic lip sync and face and body tracking, powered by Adobe Sensei AI.

Bring art to life.

Turn any art into an animated character. Get started with built-in puppet templates, or import art from Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. Then animate with your webcam, powered by Adobe Sensei AI.

Take control with triggers.

It’s easy to build timesaving triggers, so you can create and save desired movements to keyboard shortcuts. Whether you want your character to change expressions or make a gesture, triggers put you in control.

Start your own animation studio.

Animation has never been more accessible. From online content creators to professional animators, everyone can craft high-quality animation quickly and easily with automatic lip sync, premade templates, and seamless integration with other Adobe apps.

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See what new can do.

Character Animator is always getting better, with new features rolling out regularly. And with your membership, you get them as soon as we release them.

See all the new features

Easily do full-body animation

Body Tracker, powered by Adobe Sensei AI, makes it easy to animate the entire body at once. Just track your movement and your puppet will follow in your footsteps.

Animate character limbs naturally

Ground detection and the ability to pin limbs to the scene offer improved control. Make your character jump, dance, bend, squat, and much more.

Navigate the timeline more efficiently

Search your timeline for tracks and track items. Hide or isolate tracks, colorize takes, and create groups for better organization.

Use audio to make your puppet come alive

Now you can animate a Photoshop or Illustrator puppet with an audio file. With Speech-Aware Animation powered by Adobe Sensei, a simple voice track brings your character to life with corresponding movements and expressions.

Easily do full-body animation

Navigate the timeline more efficiently

Character creation in minutes

Add more accurate lip syncs

Body Tracker, powered by Adobe Sensei AI, makes it easy to animate the entire body at once. Just track your movement and your puppet will follow in your footsteps.

Create characters quickly with pre-made styles. Premade templates make it fun to choose and customize your favorite character.

Discover the tools designed to help you navigate and design in 3D space. Check out exciting new features like Real-time 3D Draft Preview, Extended Viewport, 3D Ground Plane, and 3D Transform Gizmos.

Get a better lip sync based on prerecorded audio or transcripts. No need for manual corrections to create professional-quality lip syncs, powered by Adobe Sensei AI.

Discover the world of Character Animator.

Explore artist stories, tutorials, livestream events, and more.

LEARN • CHARACTER ANIMATOR

Recording and editing a performance.

Recording and editing a performance.

LEARN • CHARACTER ANIMATOR

Create a basic face.

Create a basic face.

SHOWCASE

Adobe Character Animator Community Spotlight video.

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Essential apps for motion graphics and animation.

Adobe offers animation apps that work with all your ideas — and each other. Animate in real time with Character Animator, or use Animate to create interactive vector animations. Create intros, transitions, and more with After Effects. And move seamlessly between them all.

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