Adobe wows the design world yet again. With Adobe Character Animator, you can bring 2D image artwork from Photoshop or Illustrator to life by capturing your performance using a camera and microphone, reproducing your facial expressions, synchronizing mouth movements to your speech, and giving you control over all aspects of a character’s movement through the mouse, keyboard, and programmable behaviors.
While I don’t see this taking over traditional animation methods any time soon, it seems like it will stir the pot for animators, both aspiring and old school. The movement interaction/artwork sync alone shows that this software will be a fun time. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a lot of internet cartoon shows come out of this, what with the high-quality/low-budget appeal that Adobe Character Animator has. If anything, I can see this tool saving a lot of time with pre-production for animators.
The software will be installed along with the new After Effects release. There hasn’t been a release date set by Adobe as of yet, but I’ll definitely keep my eyes open for it.
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