I have been creating a series of Live Streams on put into a playlist called “Project Wookie” on my Behind the Scenes channel on YouTube. These are a series of examples of addresses common situations with Adobe Character Animator when rigging puppets. Project Wookie uses a photo of a toy Wookie with Photoshop to edit the artwork. I plan to do future series using Adobe Illustrator and different artwork.
I suggest these videos *after* watching the official Adobe Character Animator tutorials. These tutorials are higher quality, higher density recordings. They tend however to focus on going deep into individual features. I am trying to focus on problem situations and using features to solve the problem.
These are recordings of live streams – which means no “ums” and “ahs” are edited out. If you subscribe to the channel feel free to watch live ask questions live in the chat. I try (and usually fail) to keep episodes short, so you need to join quickly. I am trying to create episodes on particular topics so they can be referred back to later more easily. Being a live stream they show all of the steps I took to get to the next step.
The following is a list of episode so far – new ones are being added periodically, with more planned for the eyes and mouth. Check the playlist for an up to date list of all episodes.
- 0:41 Project Wookie, Episode 0: Introduction
- 8:56 Project Wookie, Episode 1: Removing Photo Background
- 13:08 Project Wookie, Episode 2: Rigging Simple Arms and Legs
- 10:24 Project Wookie, Episode 3: Recording a First Scene
- 13:13 Project Wookie, Episode 4: Exporting a Video for YouTube
- 10:38 Project Wookie, Episode 5: Joining Video Clips in Adobe Rush
- 10:11 Project Wookie, Episode 6: Combining Video Files with Premier Pro
- 18:43 Project Wookie, Episode 7: Titles and Captioning
- 18:35 Project Wookie, Episode 8: Static Backgrounds
- 14:07 Project Wookie, Episode 9: Moving Puppets Linearly
- 8:57 Project Wookie, Episode 10: Duplicating Puppets as Backups
- 11:42 Project Wookie, Episode 11: Bobbing Walk (without Walk Behavior)
- 13:13 Project Wookie, Episode 12: Floating Puppet Movement
- 8:56 Project Wookie, Episode 13: Wind Blowing Balloon
- 17:33 Project Wookie, Episode 14: Holding and Releasing Balloon
- 13:29 Project Wookie, Episode 15: Releasing Balloon on a Windy Day
- 16:13 Project Wookie, Episode 16: Adding Eyebrows
- 21:57 Project Wookie, Episode 17: Quick Eyes and Mouth
- 32:09 Project Wookie, Episode 18: Eye Pupil Movements
- 7:50 Project Wookie, Episode 19: Eye Blinks
- 23:00 Project Wookie, Episode 20: Recording Eye Movements
- 6:45 Project Wookie, Episode 21: Crazy Eyes
- 21:24 Project Wookie, Episode 22: Basic Oral Hygiene (Mouths)
- 17:50 Project Wookie, Episode 23: Planning the Audio
- 26:43 Project Wookie, Episode 24: Morphing into Super Wookie!
- 30:33 Project Wookie, Episode 25: Arms for Independence
- 20:17 Project Wookie, Episode 26: Repeating Movements
- 12:43 Project Wookie, Episode 27: Seeking Resolution
Subscribe to the channel if you want to get updates or hear about new projects that I may launch. I plan to do a separate playlist for Adobe Illustrator puppets and using Adobe Character Animator to create comics.
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