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Real-Time Animation with Adobe Character Animator
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Real-Time Animation with Adobe Character Animator

by Chad Troftgruben
December 2022
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
302 pages
7h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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Importing and Tagging Your Character

With our PSD file streamlined and ready, we can now step over to Character Animator and begin the tagging process. Tagging is the process where we identify layers and points so Character Animator knows what to do with them. Some of the work we did in the previous chapter will help us here, as Character Animator will automatically tag some layers because of the way they’re named.

In this chapter, we will learn about the following:

  • Adjusting the rig in Character Animator
  • Tagging the mouth and head
  • Tagging body parts

Technical requirements

We will use both Character Animator and Photoshop in this chapter, so have both apps ready and let’s get going!

Adjusting the rig in Character Animator

In the previous ...

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ISBN: 9781803246949