CHARACTER ANIMATOR: Full walking cartoon character tutorial
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- I fell in love with the Character Animator walk behaviour pretty recently and wanted to make a proper full walking cartoon character tutorial on the process and share exactly how it is setup on my character. From start to finish. Timestamp links in comments!
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0:51 Introduction
3:25 Setting up the art file
5:06 Rigging standing profile
7:50 Rigging mouth with happy/sad variations
11:55 Dangles on hair
12:30 Rigging Left and right profiles
17:17 Tweaking the walk
Thanks Chris - I've been away from CA for a while so this tutorial is a very welcome refresher!
Your animation is amazing. Great use of Character animator. I must learn this video to come up with a small space man character for my space animations. you have great angles and scenes too. Inspirational.
Just wanted to say, thank you so much for this tutorial. It really helped craft the puppet for my company mascot. Definitely subscribing and looking forward to seeing more of your work!
Happy to help man!!
straight forward and no bs unlike the other tutorials. thank you so much for this! I just subscribed
awesome man, thank you!
I love this type of video, I learn a lot and I also put it into practice, THANK YOU VERY MUCH !!!
awesome man! Happy you like it!
🤯🤯I don’t have to click every layer separately to add cycle layers?!?!! I knew there were some shortcuts I was missing but that one is HUUUUUUUUGE. Thanks, man. Feels like the world opened up!
such a brilliant tutorial, i'm gonna try it out! Also the intro video you made was awesome
Thank you RC!! Means much to me
Great Work!! Easy to follow and nice explanations! Keep it up, Chris!
Thanks, will do!
Awesome work as usual, keep it up! 🔥
Bizzzzzz thanks my man
You have the best tutorials on UA-cam...
Thanks so much Chris!
Wow, Big words!!! Thank you very much Romit!
@@ChrisOVEMERY It would be of big help if you could do a few tutorials on how you do your FX animation.
Love your art style!
Amazing work Chris!
Thanks bro!!!
I love ur teaching .it’s easy to follow
Thank you Daisy!
It was a very educational animation tutorial video, dude, I loved it so much :) i still watching now :) edit: i watched it all man, its amazing :D
Thanks Mustafa!!!! 💀✏️
gotta say i've looked at a hand full of tutorials and this is probably the best one ive seen. keep up the good work man.
wow thanks Frank!!
@@ChrisOVEMERY I've been having trouble with the legs being wonky and the way you space them without the dragger on the knee made it look really nice. I'm gonna give it a shot.
Love these, thank you!
Awesome Steve! Thanks!
saw the intro, and most def had to sub!
thanks for the dope tutorial
heyy thanks alot man!!
THANK YOU FOR EASY AND NICE EXPLAN
Awesome tutorial! Thanks so much!
Happy to help
man your video is so much fun
thanks!!
excellent tutorial, love love love
happy upu like it
Thank you!!! 💜
Thanks! this really made my character walk better. :)
awesome!!
@@ChrisOVEMERY What is the resolution your character is in Photoshop? Thanks Chris.
Yeah! This will help me clean up my guy..the lines on the top of legs was a issue...Thanks again for another great tutorial!
happy you dig it Jawdoe. Keep doing your thing, I'm loving it
This is a great Tutorial, thank you
happy you like it
Thank you ! just help me working ++
happy to help!
Wow, so cool intro!
Nice video
This tutorial was lit 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks Chris ❤️ learned so much from you
Love you brother from Pakistan 🇵🇰
Happy you liked it Danyal! Right back at ya man! Stay creative!
Nice tutorial
followed the tutorial exactly right, but still different. Using trial version. Thank you*
LOOOL YESSSSSSSS TNice tutorialS COMNT IS FELTTTTT
esta genial!
Super cool. As a beginner I am lost what to do once this is done. Like how do you import it to whatever set you've created for its environment. And which adobe product do you use to make the environment he's walking in, at the end? I hope you don't say after effects, I'm already juggling learning An, Ch and Ps, super overwhelmed but I will not quit
You’re awesome!! How do you not have more subs?!
Awesome but not awesome enough Appreciate the love!
Killer tutorial! Very helpful, doing a job right not where I will need a CH walk cycle
Awesome man! Would love if you wanted to try it out and let me know how it went!
@@ChrisOVEMERY Right on! I am working on it this week so I will get back to you with the results. this weekend or so
@@ChrisOVEMERY I wanted to make the stream today but got held up! I finished the project involving the walk cycle. It went super solid! I like the walk cycle function in CH, it is simple but perfect for what I needed it for. I want to play around with it a bit on my own time to see how custom you can push it, but for a standard walk cycle it was perfect. The tutorial you made was great! The troubleshooting part when you talked about tweaking the 3 areas(rig, illustration, behavior) was key, very helpful. Here's a little rough clip of the piece I did drive.google.com/file/d/1Cgpb253toygXrIxa_qyLwWgPhfZ8Evuw/view?usp=sharing Thanks for the tutorial!
@@hubzdezign looks great man stoked to see the finished project! Also happy you found the tutorial useful! Hope to catch you on future stream
Nice 🙏
Nice tutorial chris keep it up make some tutorials about Toon boom as well
Thanks bro. Its coming as I get more and more comfy using it everyday.
Do you have a video on how to create your custom cartoon character?
I love ur intro
Happy you do!
Gotta get some walk cycles rigged up by you sometime 😅
I actually liked when your skull logo was distorting. I was wondering how you must have rigged it to look that cool, feels like the jaw was moving, thought maybe you had a dangle on it with physics, but then you mention it was a mistake and you fixed it haha.
hahah! :D
Loved the intro👌🏽, was that all done in character animator too? Good tutorial 👍🏽👍🏽
Thanks!!! My character up until the actual fall is character animator. The fall is toonboom
Great tutorial! I have a question; when releasing the arrow keys, the character snaps back to the standing pose which looks to the left of the screen. What if I need the character to walk to the right of the screen then stand with its face looking to the right?
對我很有幫助thanks
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Thanks!!
I don't know if you're gonna read my comment or not after 4 weeks!
First of all thank you for all your helpful vids and tutorials 👌 they are wholesome and very educational 💙
Secondly I hope that you would make another version with same step by step full rigging tutorial for the newest release of the beta version of Ch animator.
I do motion graphics and in my workflow I've been relying on duike and other similar character animation scripts in after effect but now with new updates I'm thinking about switching to Ch and I'm sure that others well do also.
Thanks for your efforts
It took 20 minutes lol ;D Thank you very much Ehab. I'm sure I'll look inte the new features and do tutorials in the future! I wouldnt want to do it for beta though, as things might change when released in full, so Im waiting for full official release.
Thanks again!
Chris, any plans on doing a background creating tutorial using photoshop? I really love your work. I’ve never been into animation really until now. (I’m a medical student thinking about dipping my toe into animation for fun) I have no clue what the hell im doing tho. Cheers pal.
Same. Would love a walkthrough on how he did the background of his spaceship room with the fireplace that he uses for a streaming background.
Awesome hearing your getting into the animation game Bruce! Have fun and play around with it and you'll learn so much! Regarding backgrounds I have a stream highlight on the subject "How I'm drawing backgrounds for animation in Photoshop (Stream highlight)" up on my channel. Check it out! Some more in depth tutorial will come in the future though!
congratulations for your channel Chris, where did the reference of this character that you are using come from? Do you have a drawing that you can point me to as a reference to this or a specific style name?
hey! thanks no I dont really have a ref for it. Its just what I came up with.
great video. but when I go to the rig tab in the software I can not find the properties panel as you have it in the write of the screen. what should I do?
Thank you so much. I get so stressed out with this. I'm making a few characters now for my show and I get so anxious that I avoid starting. I'm interested to see how you import everything into after effects and start editing. I guess I don't understand how it works. For example: say I make a character walking for a few seconds. Do I "record" that in character animator and then save it, export it, and import that specific file into after effects? Do I then import another file of him standing and keep copying and pasting those files in the timeline below?
Hey, happy the video helps. Depending on what you want, but yes, mostly like the way you describe. The beginning of this video for example is character animator-puppet walking (.mov with alpha) and then cutting to the fall animation (a png-sequence with alpha) on top of backgrounds drawn in photoshop. Just walking and then into standing I would record as one take in Ch though as the transition from walk to stand looks pretty good.
Hard to answer such a big question in one comment but it mostly boils down to knowing what software works best at what, exporting the files with alpha and sewing them together in Ae.
@@ChrisOVEMERY thank you very much for your detailed answer. It's kind of funny how your story about creating an original cartoon worked out. I was the exact opposite. I love writing scripts and struggle with the art. I try to learn but the joy is nothing compared to writing lol. Good luck with your cartoon.
My issue when tag the character with the walk behavior is the behavior tags the head turns inside my group as views. So I have to remove the headtags or I have to put the walk behavior directly on the body
I want make him move like in games when i give the order he moves
Is there a way to have him face the direction that he is walking after he stops walking?
hey, can you please tell me how to make the intro music?
Bro I'm starting animation. I'm a rapper and producer from South Africa.
I really would like to learn as much from you as possible
Hello Chris this a good tutorial, could you share a Psd file for Photoshop ? Thank You, it's so Amaazing 🎉🎉🎉
Great video but man I'm struggling
hey chris i have 1 questuion when i want 2 move my chracter from standing position to left to right it doesnt move or walk can u help me ?
Can you use this rig for animating the character in other ways apart from walking? (Running, sitting, punching, etc.)
Mainly for walking, standing, basic gestures and talking. You CAN punch. You CAN sit down, but I dont think it looks very good and personally tend to do that in other software.
Maybe I missed it but I don't see where you cover flipping the art to be consistent with the walk tho it looks like you do that at some point because he is walking both ways while the logo on his shirt remains in the same perspective. My question is how do you go about flipping the arms and the torso so details like tattos get flipped to the correct sides? When I flip them and name them accordingly it seems to break everythin,g. Could you expalin your process for making sure details on each side switch realitically?
Hey sorry I havent done walk cycles in CH sprecificly for a while now. 1. The entire folder is duplicated and flipped within photoshop 2. I went in on the torso layer and flipped the logo to be consistent with the other view. Everything else like face, tattoos and such are the same. Sometimes in animation we just need to pick an apparent symbol (could be part of body or whatever too) and flip only that to give the illusion that the entire character consistent in left right. This is also important in the character core design. The tattoos are intentionally scribbly so no one will notice the simple flip. The chest skull however, is very specific. Hope my words make sense. Thanks for watching my video
Is there a process for making the backside of a puppet? Can you suggest any videos or do I just make a separate puppet that is just the backside? Would walking work somehow with that?
Do I need to group all 3 profiles into 1 file? I have 3 separate files for straight, left and right profiles.
Yessir. One PSD with all 3 prodiles
when you stop walking , it defaults to the standing layer, even if that pose is in the opposite direction to where you were walking. it would be nice to have it stay pointed in the same direction as it was walking when it stops walking. do you only have one standing pose per puppet?
fantastic video by the way
@@exnewyorker4374 Thank you. To my knowledge there is no solution within Ch. There might be (Im not a pro), but since I always render as .mov with alpha I kinda cut it up and flip inside of After Effects later.
Where can i find this program for free?
At the 10:14 part of the video, after adding the cycles, I went into record mode and my character disappeared. Idk what happened. The rig is still in tact, but not showing in record mode.
Ah, I accidentally added a cycles layer to the main model and it made everything disappear. I removed it and my model returned.
How do you fix your character begin able to walk but not showing up when just standing? Like my character will walk but it won’t show up if I’m not using he arrow keys
Hey Olivia, sounds like 1. Youre sure its visible in layers right? 2. They are named right?
I will say this that I have experienced weird things in the past much like you describe, when ive done things in a different order (applying walk etc)
But when done like the tutorial, things should be right.
@@ChrisOVEMERY thanks so much! After playing sound a bit I noticed I didn’t have a standing pose so I had to add one! 😅
I got some vector characters but they dont have a root folder like yours to arrange. It comes as a single layer
Well single layer is tough. You need to cut it up
Any you Please shared your this Character ??..It will helpful
Heyy unknown dont wanna share my character since its the one I use in all my videos but there are abunch of free ch puppets on their page set up the same way!
Can CA animate on 2s and other specified intervals?
Not really, you can set desired fps but thats about it I believe. Ca is very usefull in some ways but to the cost of being very limited outside of that use.
Real Hidden Gim
For character animation i prefer Moho
Can you put this tó Adobe animate?
You can always render PNGs and import into other software. However you cannot import a rigged character and work the rig in other software
This should become a new cartoon show 0:51
Thanks! Story episode dropping tomorrow (premiere on my channel 7 pm cest)
@@ChrisOVEMERY Awesome!!!! Tnx for mentioning :D
lot during covid.
is it possible to animate in CH, without that facecam thing?
not really keyframe animate no. Some minor things but its limited
@@ChrisOVEMERY any recommendation? trying to move out from after effects (its too slow)
@@ehsan_shardum It depends on what you want to do! Drawing based animation software (toonboom, animate, krita etc) is what I personally prefer
Its over
What prograM is this
Adobe Character Animator
@@ChrisOVEMERY this in the new adobe version right cause I don’t seem to see this
@@JECohen84 Its been in the adobe family for the past 3 years. So depending on how old youve got
@@ChrisOVEMERY do you have a tutorial on how you make a character from scratch plus rigging, instead of using the ones they have?
I don’t know how blaspheming against the Lord has anything to do with this subject. Would have followed this channel.