CHARACTER ANIMATOR FEATURES

Turn yourself into a cartoon with motion capture.

Start animating with Adobe Character Animator motion capture technology. Create a virtual avatar that walks, talks, and mimics your facial expressions in real time.

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A man's face with motion capture points superimposed over him

Set a rest pose.

Start by sitting in front of your camera with your head centered in the frame. Character Animator will assign tracking points to your face.

Choose a puppet.

Character Animator comes preloaded with a variety of colorful characters called puppets. Choose one and get rolling.

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Color palette next to a customizable robot character

Customize your character.

Character Animator puppets are fully customizable. Fine-tune your character or create your own in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.

Capture talking and moving.

With machine learning, Character Animator tracks your jaw, eyes, ears, and pupils. Move your head and your puppet will too. Talk into your mic and the puppet will lip sync in real time or even mimic recorded audio.

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Add body movement to digital characters.

Character Animator gives you the tools to apply human motion to your puppets, like walking, running, or dancing, as well as how they interact with forces like gravity and wind.

Explore more in animation with these tutorials.

See what you can create with Character Animator, from making your own digital character to getting tips on how to bring them to life.

Animated face character

Create a basic face.

Learn how to draw a character’s eyes, mouth, and other features, starting with a Photoshop template.

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Creating a basic body.

Build a torso, limbs, hands, and feet for your animated figure, and add rigging information to each limb to control movement.

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Teach your character to walk.

Set up a basic animation rig and teach your character human movement and realistic biomechanics by learning to tag and animate individual body parts.

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Animate a puppet with Adobe Character Animator.

Get an in-depth guide to creating a fully realized puppet in Character Animator.

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