From writing a script to animating keyframes, this longform tutorial goes deep into every stage of the process for creating an animated "explainer" style video with a cartoon narrator character. So this is a behind the scenes look at how I created the recent "Game Subscriptions Are the Future" video (    • Game Subscriptions Are the Future   ). We'll record and edit the audio in Audition, build our character in Photoshop, rig and animate him in Character Animator, and finally composite everything together in After Effects.

Sections:
0:00 Intro
1:00 Part 1: Writing & Recording the Script
12:26 Part 2: Creating Your Character
26:46 Part 3: Rigging for Animation
50:21 Part 4: Performance Recording & Editing
1:23:27 Part 5: Supplemental Asset Creation
1:27:08 Part 6: Compositing in After Effects
1:34:23 Part 7: Animating in After Effects
1:48:10 Part 8: Render & Review
1:53:25 Outro

Links:
Narrator Dave puppet: https://okaysamurai.com/puppets/
Audio Library:    / @audiolibrary_  
Arm IK Tutorial:    • Arm IK (Adobe Character Animator Tuto...  
Advanced Rigging: Leeta:    • Advanced Rigging: Leeta (Adobe Charac...  
The Noun Project: https://thenounproject.com/

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 puppet pack)
Check out the official forums: https://adobe.com/go/chfeedback
Share your creations on social media with #CharacterAnimator!

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Twitter:   / okaysamurai  
Website: http://okaysamurai.com

Music:
Come Home by Declan DP   / declandp  
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Adventures by A Himitsu    / @ahimitsu  
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Cold Funk - Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
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