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CHARACTER ANIMATOR FEATURES

Create expressive animation with facial motion capture.

Bring a cartoon character’s face to life with real-time facial motion capture and automatic lip sync using Adobe Character Animator.

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An animated character smiling with her mouth open while she rides a fluffy bird
Predesigned characters in Adobe Character Animator

Start with a predesigned character.

Choose a preloaded puppet from the Character Animator home screen to explore facial motion capture. Then watch it come alive as you move.

Create a custom avatar from a template.

Choose a simple character from the home screen and then edit their facial features. You can even copy and paste features from one character to another.

Creating a custom avatar in Adobe Character Animator
A man using Adobe Character Animator to animate a character

Sync with uploaded or live video and audio.

Line up the puppet’s face with yours during live video, using markerless facial capture. Speak into your computer mic and the puppet will lip sync in real time, or upload prerecorded audio for your puppet to mimic.

Add realistic details like hair movement.

Choose what moves on your character and how, in tandem with the facial animation, using the capture system’s Physics tools to apply gravitational laws.

Adding realistic hair movement to a character in Adobe Character Animator

Design a high-quality animated face from scratch.

Quickly toggle between Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator and Character Animator to create a unique character of your own. This innovative facial motion capture software is integrated with Photoshop and all of Creative Cloud to make the design process flow.

Follow along to start animating faces.

Check out helpful tutorials to get rolling on face capture — from designing a cartoon face one feature at a time to walking through entire character animations, limbs and all.

Character Animator

How to get Character Animator.

Start for free or get it as part of the Creative Cloud All Apps plan.

Character Animator Starter

Free

  • Get started — no experience needed.
  • Access basic features to create and export animations in minutes.
  • Choose from predesigned puppets.
  • Save time with select gestures.
  • Create with real-time face tracking.
  • Have fun without any commitment.

Creative Cloud All Apps

US$59.99/mo

  • Get Character Animator and 20+ apps: Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and more.
  • Access all Character Animator pro features.
  • Create multiple characters and original puppets with Puppet Maker.
  • Make your own movements and gestures.
  • Create with real-time face and body tracking.
  • Livestream your characters.