Adobe CC Character Animator 2019 - First Impressions

Here's a first look at the new features in the 2019 edition of Adobe CC Character Animator. I've rigged a simple lip sync animation using a drawing of a Luke Skywalker character. You can see how eyebrow, eye, and lip animation works when importing a custom photoshop template and audio track.

This software has some really intersting (and fun) tools, but it's hard to imagine this being used for professional tier animation production work. I'm going to use it mainly to add simple mouth animation to my comics and create a sort of comic/animation hybrid. Of course, it's only good for talking scenes because the body animation would be better in after effects or an all-in-one animation software package like toon boom.

I'm also hoping that the next version of this program incorporates more custom controls, as opposed to using the automated web cam input, OR I would like to see more options to deform a mesh in order to create a naturalistic animation capturing real facial expressions.

If you already have an Adobe Creative Cloud account, this app is worth playing around with, but I don't recommend it as a standalone program.

Let me know if you have any questions about the features.

G ♥