How To Animate & Motion Capture Yourself | Beginners Tutorial

Learn how to easily animate yourself with basic motion capture & automated lip syncing - an easy animation tutorial with zero animation experience required!

We'll learn how to use:
✅ Adobe Illustrator to draw yourself
✅ Adobe Character Animator to animate yourself with motion capture & automated lip syncing, and
✅ Adobe After Effects to edit, compile, and export your video

You can use this tutorial to make animated presentions, an animated news anchor, and animated podcasts!

Project files (AI file, Character Animator puppet, Visemes) can be found here:
https://github.com/edgecate/Animation...

Chapters:
Introduction
00:00 Overview

Draw Yourself In Adobe Illustrator
01:10 Draw Your Face
09:24 Draw Your Hair
11:18 Draw Your Eyebrows
12:22 Draw Your Eyes
17:32 Draw Your Nose
17:58 Add A Mouth
23:39 Draw Your Ears
25:35 Add A Body

Animate Yourself In Adobe Character Animator
31:18 Rigging Process
49:02 Setup Motion Capture
52:50 Lip Syncing Automation
57:39 Recording Process

Edit, Compile, and Export Your Video in Adobe After Effects
1:08:02 Import Your Character & Background
1:13:13 Export Your Video