Adobe Character Animator

Professional 2D animation requires a lot of creativity and solid technological skills, along with industry-leading software tools that can generate realistic motion effects. Following an extensive collaboration with experienced animators, Adobe created its own Character Animator, which allows 2D characters to come to life.

Adobe Character Animator provides a new approach to character animation. Combining the power of a robust motion recorder, a face expression tracker, and an advanced lip-syncing algorithm, it enables animators to deliver 2D animations that mimic real human gestures.

Using a high-quality webcam and a headset equipped with a microphone, you can practically make your character copy your movements and facial expressions in real time. The character smoothly transitions from one position to another, while pose-to-pose animation enables it to obtain the effects seen in hand-drawn animations. The application can recognize pupil and eyebrow movements, which is bound to help users obtain more expressiveness for their characters.

Attention to details is mandatory in the animation industry, and that is why Adobe Character Animator displays waveform representations of sound, allowing users to carefully adjust the timing of speech and entrance for a character. Moreover, it can collaborate with Adobe Audition for enhanced audio editing capabilities.

Adobe Character Animator implements realistic collision effects, allowing layers to interact with each other dynamically while taking into account gravity, friction, and bounciness. Users obtain improved control over their artwork, with advanced keyboard triggers.

Adobe Character Animator provides advanced control over the behavior of a character, making it much easier to obtain the right face expression in both recorded and live performances.

Already used by animators who design 2D characters for cartoons and even live TV shows, Adobe's application has huge potential that can only be discovered by experimenting with its feature set. It is perfect for frame by frame animation, and it opens up new possibilities to the world of 2D animation altogether.

Although it can deliver impressive results, it is not as intricate as other similar editors. In fact, it eases the work of animators who previously had to combine complex settings in After Effects or some other professional editor.