Character Animator Tips & Tricks (October 2017)

This month we start with four excellent community examples: a successful YouTube series with 3D monsters at a bar, a cartoon pencil narrating design tutorials, a deranged wizard with full-faced lip sync, and a skeleton with smooth head turns. Then we answer your mailbox questions about MIDI support, using puppets for video chat apps like Skype, and how to add foreground and background elements to your scene. Then we'll finish with some tips for making claymation style characters.

0:00 Intro
0:50 Community Spotlight
8:29 Mailbox
12:47 Making Claymation Puppets
16:32 Outro

Show Links:
Monster Talk / Ben Phelps:    / benphelps  
Look Studios: http://digitalpuppets.co.uk
Design Dojo: http://www.designdojo.org
Digital Muppet:   / digitalmuppet  
Lynne Mitchell: http://howtohauntyourhouse.com
Wirecast: https://www.telestream.net/wirecast/
Sculpey: https://www.sculpey.com/
Adobe MAX: https://max.adobe.com/

Download Character Animator: https://www.adobe.com/products/charac...
Download free example projects and puppets: http://adobe.com/go/chexamples (official adobe pack) and http://okaysamurai.com/puppets/ (okay samurai puppet pack)
Check out the official forums: https://adobe.com/go/chfeedback

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