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Day 3 – Do you even lift, bro?

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Day 3 has arrived. I’ll let you see the GIF first and then I’ll ask you what you think I did this morning.

Day3 - Lifting
Day 3 – Do you even lift, bro?

Well, can you guess? Core day at the gym.

I took today as an opportunity to play with Rubberhose. I’ve only really used it a couple times, generally opting for Duik instead. I do really love this Plugin though and how quickly this one was able to be put together (less than 15 mins) is a testament to the usability of this little gem.

I also whipped out OC eyes, another plugin that makes character animation just way too easy.

Frank Doesn’t Like Flannel

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdO02YrEiis

I have a project already underway that is a mouth synced character animation. I figured this would be a great time to finally try Adobe Character Animator and see if it is right for this project. If it is it could take a load of time off of the mouth sync process.

To start with I watched the in built tutorials, which were super cute. Then I selected one of Adobe’s preset character and started playing. Character animator uses your face captured through your computer webcam to animate the character. With a project set up in a certain way you can speak, or upload a audio recording and Character Animator will sync the mouth for you.

Adobe Character Animator in action. Using my webcam to animate Red Monster.
Adobe Character Animator in action. Using my webcam to animate Red Monster.

Unfortunately, while I had high hopes for Character Animator in my current project it looks like the limited number of mouth shapes and inaccuracy of the sync to audio recording function, which this whole project is based on.

Regardless, I certainly had a lot of fun playing with this tool (results at the top of the page) and I think as Adobe refines and updates this could become the future of character animation.

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