Hello there. I am only 13 years old. After watching it on this channel, I made my first animation with Character Animator today. I think I did a good job. I'm still at the beginning of the road. Thank you Okay Samurai. Thank you Character Animation.😀
Omg!!!!! I'm telling yall, I'm a super animated personality in real life, and to have a resource that I can use to show my quirkiness through cartoon form is absolutely mind blowing. I'll be starting on my cartoon journey in a couple of days. This is awesome news. I have so much to learn.
I almost feel sorry for people planning to use it for "performer mode" on a whim... They'd spend 2k on this (well, on creative cloud formula) for three years instead of 300 (same time frame) for what's already on the market with way more options. Just because the Vtuber trend uses mostly anime style doesn't mean the tech they use can't work with cartoon characters. It's up to the artists to use the tools however they see fit. Plus, the tracking here seems fancy, but being able to use many keyframes means way more control and for rotations and allow secondary animations on both idle and press of a shortcut. What Adobe may come up with over the next months was already on the market for years. Still, look like a solid tool to "record a cartoon movie" super fast tho. For that yeah, it may become worth it, but certainly not for the use of "performer mode" people may jump into becuse of hype and dreams.
Amazing!!! I think Adobe MUST create a kind of LAYER ORDER Behavior at recording time. I think it's easy to implement and would save a lot of time. Everytime we need to bring a layer to front (like arms or legs), we have to make the layer shareable and sometimes it doesn't work. If we had a Layer Order behavior, by simply changing a value at recording time we could put a layer in front or behind other layers.
There is no reason to make this software more accessible or available to buy without the full bundle. Please keep the standards. What you have created with this software is pure gold. The amount of work and and the level of innovation have to be paid by those who want 1st class software. I mean, there’s no reason to make this software easy to obtain. I’m playing annually those 700$ without regretting one single cent. You did a great job, again. Congratulations! Adobe is Adobe.
I showed this to my students, and they went wild! On a personal note, I'm pretty sure Adobe just made it possible for me to actually animate a series I was doubting I'd have time to do!!!!!
I woke up feeling a little blue, and was pondering my day...UNTIL I SAW THIS!!! Thank God for a wonderful day and all the excitement it has brought me. Thanks Dave, the screaming was a scream of pure joy!!! This is my new plan for the WEEK. Too excited. BTW...great tutorial.
Looks fantastic!!! WHAT WE NEED: body tagging for front, 3/4, side, and back. Similar to how it's set up for head turn tagging, that can interface with the new body tracking feature.
Insane! Outstanding work Dave! How far we have come in the last few years with animation is amazing! Thank you and the team for all your hard work and thank you for putting this episode together.
You expand and blow my mind every time you post. Although I don't use 2D as much as 3D, you have inspired me to revisit it and combine the two. My portfolio cannot thank you enough sir.
It is possible to create a character in 3D then render each body part into 2D layers and assemble them in photoshop. They look pretty good in Character Animator, even if they aren't true 3D. Here's an example that I did for a client: www.theworrywizard.com/schools
@@chaymation2 thank you for bringing this to my attention, this could pave the way for some fun projects to come. You legend 👊. Ps. Your work looks amazing, it must have been fun building all those mouths in 3d.
Dave man this is juste amazing thanking you its not enough ! You ended our misery ! For years tried all animation software from flash macromidia to toon boom this is the end ! You finished it . Thanks again !
Hi I am professional illustrator and few things about body tracker. First I must admit wow amazing invention I really love it and I am sure that will change the way of animation!!! So position about body: we need front view, left and right. Movements like jumping, kicking... And kull thing will be to make a zoom view. Like when the character comes closer to camera and try to do something with hand or fingers that part's can be bigger then the rest of body. That can be great stuff you can make. Thank you a lot for futures you make 🤗
To be honest i watched this video around 6 to 7 times and still am not satisfied i think ima watch it more times becuz this is doo damn amazing tnxxx soo much Okay Samurai for reading our comments and doing as we wanted you just made my day :)
Nice. For the feature request, it would be great to add logic when to trigger a swap set (e.g. if elbow angle less than X swap wrist, so big finger on 4:43 face the right way)
Hi there this is a grate Feature?? congratulation... you know what i think character animator need is a gallery of action moves, premade keyframe moves to drag and drop ever our characters. Jump run, etc. Soy anybody can animate and have a grate result. Tx for all the updates you are already adding, you have change the way we look 2d animation Joaquin
Ah, I'm so excited, thanks so much Dave and team for all of your work! I'm a total amateur but love animating. I'm not an artist so have been doing Sketch-a-day-May and now that I've downloaded the beta I think I'm going to try to challenge myself to Toon-a-day-June next month!
This is really cool! Based on your preview last week, I was expecting that we would have to use only full front or full back poses. But I am really impressed that the camera seems to be able to track limbs even in profile positions. This is pretty amazing
Been learning how to use character animator for the last 3 months. As a beginner this will make it soo much easier for me to do movements and hopefully make some good content!
I'm loving this body tracker! One thing I'd love to see with it is a calibrate & record button/option, so it can calibrate, then countdown and start recording, so I don't have to run back over to my computer and hit record, then run back!
Agreed. I believe that when the countdown reaches 0 it also calibrates, so you can give yourself a couple of extra seconds buffer room in the front to get set and go from there. I'll try this out more...
Fantastic advances! And as always, great tutorials. I'm sure you're mindful of this, but PLEASE- going forward, be clear and direct about what will work. You admitted in this video that with body tracking, we now need to label head and body as independent which is opposite to what we've had to learn. I understand that things change with technology. But please strive for consistency and clear communication. This stuff is hard enough to learn as it is! Thanks again. You guys rock.
Ohhhh man…this a major update on my current project…you’ve just changed my world…and as fast as u guys develop stuff I’m sure the full body tracking limits will be gone….as that’s what I’m really after….full body tracking….I’m sooooo tired of trying to piecemeal everything together..
Oh nice!!! this feature will surely put ACA way ahead of any cartoon animation software. U guys not only adding value to the software but also making poor animators' life easier😏😏 thumb's up ACA team.😀👍
This is huge for creators. I would only recommend that you try to update this feature in a way that is not so reactive to movements, avoiding jitter. That way, many creators could actually use to emulate the look of traditional animation. Otherwise, great work from the team. We can certainly expect this to become the tool for one man bands in the future.
So cool! Might be a good idea to have some kind of toggle between beginner and advanced mode so you can get used to the basics without getting overwhelmed and then branch out to advanced mode to get more control over specific elements
This is crazy! Love to see it working well. For now, my tests won't work as it should, when using only wrist tracks, it keep the arms always bended and shorter that the real pose i did, and always bended, can't get that arm to be strait as mine is.
Yes, the Limb IK behavior defaults tend to favor bending, although there are some parameters you can tweak in there to make it more/less bendy. And of course you can tag the elbows and shoulders too and see if that helps.
i started to get ahead for webcam and creative cloud i will be back in 2 years, stay tuned please... btw AWESOME WORK, THIS IS CRAZY AND LIFESAVER ALSO YOU ARE SO SO HELPFUL WİTH EVERYTHİNG, THANK YOU !
See the beta information on adobe.com/go/ch_bodytracker. Body tracking was added in 4.3 build 38. If you don't see that version, try clicking the three dots in the corner of the updates tab in the Creative Cloud desktop app and choose "Check for updates." Hope that helps!
@@okaysamurai hum, the creative cloud app says the ch beta one I have is the latest. Could it be a limited release? I'll reboot and check again tomorrow.
The improvements that I would want to see is the capabilities of jumping and crouching, the subtle, smaller movements that I make, and of course, more creation of characters that work the best with body tracking. I want to be able to make movements anywhere. I wonder if I upgrade my webcam, that will make a difference. Overall, this is an awesome concept.
Yheeee. A really good presentation Dave of this new add in the program. This is an amazing future in this software, open up a totally new way of creativity right at your fingertips 🙏🏼❤️
That's kind of amazing that it is catching the vibe off of the subject matter in the middle with all that distracting background. I'm used to things looking for edges/contrast/fills.
This is absolutely amazing One thing I would say is, much like with how you can adjust the jitter in your brush strokes in illustrator and photoshop I think it would improve the quality greatly if you had a slider to control the amount of jitter as it is trying to track from position to position. especially early on as the tracking is still getting better and in its infancy
A few features I think are going to be awesome: 1. Exporting of body data would be awesome. But already have video, so could use that for game animation. 2. Allow for multiple bodies in the shot 3. allow hand gestures to give animation cues. 4. allow people to use a treadmill for walking.
Ok wow for real this is crazy! 😮 Someone give the team on Character Animator a raise, this is a major breakthrough!
Is the character animator team just this guy?
@@guymanperson1 Nope there are some more ppl too you can also join if you want
Adobe Character Animator i know this software is amazing but not 100% is perfect
@@KamranBhutto its 100% perfect bro but the character's lips will move now and then if it caches any type of sound
The ai tech behind this must be really good
Hello there. I am only 13 years old. After watching it on this channel, I made my first animation with Character Animator today. I think I did a good job. I'm still at the beginning of the road. Thank you Okay Samurai. Thank you Character Animation.😀
congratulations
wow really cool
I like your work. Congratulations
Only 13 years old!! Wow, congratulations.
👍👍👍
Omg!!!!! I'm telling yall, I'm a super animated personality in real life, and to have a resource that I can use to show my quirkiness through cartoon form is absolutely mind blowing. I'll be starting on my cartoon journey in a couple of days. This is awesome news. I have so much to learn.
I almost feel sorry for people planning to use it for "performer mode" on a whim...
They'd spend 2k on this (well, on creative cloud formula) for three years instead of 300 (same time frame) for what's already on the market with way more options.
Just because the Vtuber trend uses mostly anime style doesn't mean the tech they use can't work with cartoon characters. It's up to the artists to use the tools however they see fit.
Plus, the tracking here seems fancy, but being able to use many keyframes means way more control and for rotations and allow secondary animations on both idle and press of a shortcut. What Adobe may come up with over the next months was already on the market for years.
Still, look like a solid tool to "record a cartoon movie" super fast tho. For that yeah, it may become worth it, but certainly not for the use of "performer mode" people may jump into becuse of hype and dreams.
@@renookami4651 what programs do you recommend???
@@renookami4651 who allows for secondary animations--Adobe character animator or another? Are you talking about Live2D?
Amazing!!! I think Adobe MUST create a kind of LAYER ORDER Behavior at recording time. I think it's easy to implement and would save a lot of time. Everytime we need to bring a layer to front (like arms or legs), we have to make the layer shareable and sometimes it doesn't work. If we had a Layer Order behavior, by simply changing a value at recording time we could put a layer in front or behind other layers.
Yes, I agree. Especially, things like arms that can go behind and infront of the head, and objects
Totally agree!!
I agree Too
The best news I've had thus far in 2021. I can't thank you enough.
Literally!!!
There is no reason to make this software more accessible or available to buy without the full bundle. Please keep the standards. What you have created with this software is pure gold. The amount of work and and the level of innovation have to be paid by those who want 1st class software. I mean, there’s no reason to make this software easy to obtain. I’m playing annually those 700$ without regretting one single cent. You did a great job, again. Congratulations! Adobe is Adobe.
Slowly but surely you're helping me & my friend make animated shorts for our D&D sessions & podcast. Thanks man.
Just tried it. The quality of tracking given my cheap webcam and messy room environment was absolutely legendary. Really amazing.
I showed this to my students, and they went wild! On a personal note, I'm pretty sure Adobe just made it possible for me to actually animate a series I was doubting I'd have time to do!!!!!
I woke up feeling a little blue, and was pondering my day...UNTIL I SAW THIS!!! Thank God for a wonderful day and all the excitement it has brought me. Thanks Dave, the screaming was a scream of pure joy!!! This is my new plan for the WEEK. Too excited. BTW...great tutorial.
Making animation this easy feels illegal.......I'm all for it, thanks guys.
Omg this is gonna be amazing
ikr
Looks fantastic!!!
WHAT WE NEED: body tagging for front, 3/4, side, and back. Similar to how it's set up for head turn tagging, that can interface with the new body tracking feature.
dave you are seriously the best product spokesperson/educator i've ever witnessed
Insane! Outstanding work Dave!
How far we have come in the last few years with animation is amazing!
Thank you and the team for all your hard work and thank you for putting this episode together.
What a pleasure to be part of it! I love to test it :-) thanks a lot!
Thanks for being our SENSEI, Dave ! Great stuff here ! Imagine having a 360 puppet and tracking (might need a depth cam for that) !
Adobe should give this guy a raise he is working very hard on this channel...
You realize you are a miracle worker, right? Thanks Dave!!
You expand and blow my mind every time you post. Although I don't use 2D as much as 3D, you have inspired me to revisit it and combine the two.
My portfolio cannot thank you enough sir.
It is possible to create a character in 3D then render each body part into 2D layers and assemble them in photoshop.
They look pretty good in Character Animator, even if they aren't true 3D.
Here's an example that I did for a client: www.theworrywizard.com/schools
@@chaymation2 thank you for bringing this to my attention, this could pave the way for some fun projects to come.
You legend 👊.
Ps. Your work looks amazing, it must have been fun building all those mouths in 3d.
I'll be jumping right into this first thing tomorrow morning.
Did you get started ? 😊
So legendary..... I'm just livin in the myth that major break through is happening in animation world.
Yes, I love it i'm 12 years old and I love teling stories I got Ch recently and this channel has helped me a looooot,
So much gratitude 🙏 thank you Adobe Team
Oh my God!!!! this is a groundbreaking feature, thank you so much for your hard work 💜
I'm downloading the Beta! For one of the projects for my non-profit organization, this feature is the heaven! :D
This has just made a bad day better. 🙌🏽
Dave you're the MVP. You started me on Character animator.
I hope they will publish this Officially very soon ❤️❤️❤️
Dave man this is juste amazing thanking you its not enough ! You
ended our misery ! For years tried all animation software from flash macromidia to toon boom this is the end ! You finished it .
Thanks again !
If you added body rotation, it would be even more awesome than it is already!
x2
Hi I am professional illustrator and few things about body tracker. First I must admit wow amazing invention I really love it and I am sure that will change the way of animation!!! So position about body: we need front view, left and right. Movements like jumping, kicking... And kull thing will be to make a zoom view. Like when the character comes closer to camera and try to do something with hand or fingers that part's can be bigger then the rest of body. That can be great stuff you can make. Thank you a lot for futures you make 🤗
OH MY GOD...its all i can say... remembering back then when I start animation 2D in 2015...
Great work Character Animator Team!!! Super cool!
This is so fantastic.....
To be honest i watched this video around 6 to 7 times and still am not satisfied i think ima watch it more times becuz this is doo damn amazing tnxxx soo much
Okay Samurai for reading our comments and doing as we wanted you just made my day :)
yuh tnxx soo much dave
Nice. For the feature request, it would be great to add logic when to trigger a swap set (e.g. if elbow angle less than X swap wrist, so big finger on 4:43 face the right way)
I'm so happy I could cry 😭 can't wait to start experimenting and make my beloved characters come alive 🙏🏼
Don’t lie...your about to start pop locking aren’t you 😂..me too 😭
Hi there this is a grate Feature?? congratulation... you know what i think character animator need is a gallery of action moves, premade keyframe moves to drag and drop ever our characters. Jump run, etc. Soy anybody can animate and have a grate result. Tx for all the updates you are already adding, you have change the way we look 2d animation
Joaquin
It's here.....I'TS HERE!!!!!! *intense clapping noises*
Wow! Just Wow... Have been waiting for this feature for so long! it will revolutionize and speed up things so much! Thank you, guys!!!
Ah, I'm so excited, thanks so much Dave and team for all of your work! I'm a total amateur but love animating. I'm not an artist so have been doing Sketch-a-day-May and now that I've downloaded the beta I think I'm going to try to challenge myself to Toon-a-day-June next month!
Oh man, I'm sooo gonna break a bone while using this!!! thanks so much :D
*Okay Samurai is not responsible for any injuries you sustain while pretending to be a dancing unicorn
Whoooooop Whoooooop Whoooooop what a beautiful day!!! Thank you so much!!
This is really cool! Based on your preview last week, I was expecting that we would have to use only full front or full back poses. But I am really impressed that the camera seems to be able to track limbs even in profile positions. This is pretty amazing
thanks Dave for updating the beta link! All works now! Peeps are going to go crazy with this!
You can tell i was commenting in the moment lol im downloading it now thanks man
downloading now! yesss thank you just in time for my next video, just started learning all of Adobe apps last year this is so exciting!
Dave and the Adobe team are awesome. Thanks for all your hard work
Been learning how to use character animator for the last 3 months. As a beginner this will make it soo much easier for me to do movements and hopefully make some good content!
This is amazing! What a breakthrough. Keep going Adobe! Innovation for real!!!!!
Amazing really time saving
a revolution into the industry of cartoon film making
Great job ACA Teams.
I'm loving this body tracker! One thing I'd love to see with it is a calibrate & record button/option, so it can calibrate, then countdown and start recording, so I don't have to run back over to my computer and hit record, then run back!
Agreed. I believe that when the countdown reaches 0 it also calibrates, so you can give yourself a couple of extra seconds buffer room in the front to get set and go from there. I'll try this out more...
Oh. My. God. You need a raise.
Fantastic advances! And as always, great tutorials. I'm sure you're mindful of this, but PLEASE- going forward, be clear and direct about what will work. You admitted in this video that with body tracking, we now need to label head and body as independent which is opposite to what we've had to learn. I understand that things change with technology. But please strive for consistency and clear communication. This stuff is hard enough to learn as it is! Thanks again. You guys rock.
This is amazing! Great work! I love that you guys really listen to customer requests!
Ohhhh man…this a major update on my current project…you’ve just changed my world…and as fast as u guys develop stuff I’m sure the full body tracking limits will be gone….as that’s what I’m really after….full body tracking….I’m sooooo tired of trying to piecemeal everything together..
Its my birthday today , and this is such a great birthday gift.
Wow. This is amazing.Thank you Adobe for introducing such super features.
Oh nice!!! this feature will surely put ACA way ahead of any cartoon animation software. U guys not only adding value to the software but also making poor animators' life easier😏😏 thumb's up ACA team.😀👍
Excellent, wonderful, very successful, thank you for your work
It's awesome! Can't wait for the official release!
Ohhhhhhhhh myyyyyyyyy goshhhhhhhhhhhh. This is so freaking cool. Well done guys! I can’t wait to get my hands on it.
Never downloaded anything quicker!! Thanks Dave!
This is huge for creators. I would only recommend that you try to update this feature in a way that is not so reactive to movements, avoiding jitter. That way, many creators could actually use to emulate the look of traditional animation.
Otherwise, great work from the team. We can certainly expect this to become the tool for one man bands in the future.
Yes, some kind of smoothness parameter might be nice in the behavior settings.
This has simply just made my day. Im currently working on a project and this will be a massive game-changer :-)
This is amazing guys. This is a giant leap!
So cool! Might be a good idea to have some kind of toggle between beginner and advanced mode so you can get used to the basics without getting overwhelmed and then branch out to advanced mode to get more control over specific elements
We've talked a lot about this very idea and have some possibilities in the future. Stay tuned...
This is crazy! Love to see it working well. For now, my tests won't work as it should, when using only wrist tracks, it keep the arms always bended and shorter that the real pose i did, and always bended, can't get that arm to be strait as mine is.
Yes, the Limb IK behavior defaults tend to favor bending, although there are some parameters you can tweak in there to make it more/less bendy. And of course you can tag the elbows and shoulders too and see if that helps.
Downloaded and using now, you guys make such great tools!!
i started to get ahead for webcam and creative cloud i will be back in 2 years, stay tuned please... btw AWESOME WORK, THIS IS CRAZY AND LIFESAVER ALSO YOU ARE SO SO HELPFUL WİTH EVERYTHİNG, THANK YOU !
also i love that you like every comment, you value us
You guys are doing great things. Thank You
My mind is literally blown away every single update.
Just when I was about to cancel my Adobe subscription... this is epic !
am from Ethiopia and working with animation is a pin in the a#* Adobe Character Animator makes it so easy adobe is amazing ❤️❤️
Guys amazing u guys just unlock a new level
This is awesome. Thank you Abode.
This is an amazing news...thanks so much for you and the team!
Excellent. I have a question about what the Beta version is that you say you can only use this with. I have Ch 2019 CC, An 2019 CC, and Ch 2020.
See the beta information on adobe.com/go/ch_bodytracker. Body tracking was added in 4.3 build 38. If you don't see that version, try clicking the three dots in the corner of the updates tab in the Creative Cloud desktop app and choose "Check for updates." Hope that helps!
@@okaysamurai Thank you for the reply.
AHHHhhhh Dave, this is so awesome, thank you team
This looks SUPER COOL!!... I want to play.. its in beta right now?
Yep! adobe.com/go/ch_bodytracker
I'm so excited for this. This is gonna be so useful with a cartoon pilot I'm working on!
Awesome! I look forward to when the Body Tracking is available to test on the ChA Beta app. :)
The latest version is 4.3, build 38. If that's not what you have, you might have to click "check for updates" in the Creative Cloud desktop app.
@@okaysamurai hum, the creative cloud app says the ch beta one I have is the latest. Could it be a limited release? I'll reboot and check again tomorrow.
Sometimes the CC desktop app is slow to find updates. Yeah, try again tomorrow or do the "check for updates" thing I mentioned above.
@@okaysamurai it showed up this morning :) thanks!
this is so awesome. i haven't been using Character Animator in a while but this gives me an excuse to jump back in.
The improvements that I would want to see is the capabilities of jumping and crouching, the subtle, smaller movements that I make, and of course, more creation of characters that work the best with body tracking. I want to be able to make movements anywhere. I wonder if I upgrade my webcam, that will make a difference. Overall, this is an awesome concept.
I wish I could like this multiple times. This is so so so exciting!!!
Been following for years I knew this software would be huge !!!
Yheeee. A really good presentation Dave of this new add in the program. This is an amazing future in this software, open up a totally new way of creativity right at your fingertips 🙏🏼❤️
I screamed for the feature and cried for your dance moves
That's kind of amazing that it is catching the vibe off of the subject matter in the middle with all that distracting background. I'm used to things looking for edges/contrast/fills.
This is very impressive, I'm not even an artist and I'm already thinking of many applications where this will come in handy.
Mind blown! This is just amazing! Thanks for your great work!
Oh my Gosh....this is insane!!!!!!!!? I'm so getting back to this again.
This is absolutely amazing
One thing I would say is, much like with how you can adjust the jitter in your brush strokes in illustrator and photoshop I think it would improve the quality greatly if you had a slider to control the amount of jitter as it is trying to track from position to position. especially early on as the tracking is still getting better and in its infancy
Agreed. Some kind of smoothing control would be really nice.
A few features I think are going to be awesome:
1. Exporting of body data would be awesome. But already have video, so could use that for game animation.
2. Allow for multiple bodies in the shot
3. allow hand gestures to give animation cues.
4. allow people to use a treadmill for walking.
Will it be possible to use a video to animate it?
Not natively, but you can use third party software like CamTwist to make a virtual camera for the webcam that can do this sort of thing.
finallyyyy! thank you so muchhhhh CHARACTER ANIMATOR!
Saw Sir Wade neistat gave you a shoutout in an old video, came by to say hi. Nice video 👍