Want to create animated characters for social media videos? This tutorial walks through a process I recently took doing a 2-minute animation / live action hybrid piece. We'll start with creating character artwork with AI using Adobe Firefly, getting them ready for animation in Adobe Photoshop, recording their voices in Adobe Audition, rigging and animating in Adobe Character Animator, editing in Adobe Premiere Pro, and finally compositing in Adobe After Effects.

0:00 "Cookies" Animated Short
1:50 Intro
3:14 Generating Characters with Firefly
4:02 Preparing Artwork in Photoshop
7:12 Getting Started in Character Animator
8:37 Writing the Script
9:39 Recording Audio in Audition
13:30 Animating in Character Animator
20:56 Editing in Premiere Pro
23:17 Getting Started in After Effects
29:26 Motion Tracking in After Effects
36:46 Masking in After Effects
39:59 Outro

Links:
Download the Angel & Devil puppets for free: https://okaysamurai.com/puppets/
Adobe Firefly: https://firefly.adobe.com/
AI Tiger Character Rigging Tutorial:    • Making Animated Characters with AI Ar...  
Free Mouth Sets: https://adobe.com/go/chresources
Intro to Rigging:    • Intro to Rigging (Adobe Character Ani...  
Multitrack Audio Recording:    • Complete Cartoon Workflow (Adobe Char...  
After Effects Basics:    • Complete Animation Workflow (Adobe Ch...  

Download Character Animator: https://www.adobe.com/products/charac...
Get free puppets: http://adobe.com/go/chexamples (official adobe puppets) / http://okaysamurai.com/puppets/ (okay samurai puppets)
Check out the official forums: https://adobe.com/go/chfeedback
Share your creations on social media with #CharacterAnimator!

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