Adobe® Character Animator software provides a powerful, fun, and intuitive way to animate 2D characters. Live preview in real time, export clips using sound files or an attached microphone, and create precise lip sync with audio waveforms. Available exclusively on Creative Cloud. Adobe is a computer software company. It was founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company as a consultancy focused on Adobe’s creative and publishing products. The two engineers had left Apple Inc. in 1979 to establish a company that would develop and sell PostScript, a page description language plotter controller standard which they had developed while at Apple. In 1985, Apple bought the company for $3 billion; the first major consumer software by Apple since the demise of their HyperCard division in 1984.
Adobe Character Animator is a simple and intuitive way to create high-quality animated videos using your own artwork, characters, and dialogue. You can easily animate with natural language or traditional animation methods.
Make beautiful animated clips and films with professional 2D animation software.
There’s a new age of animation. Advances in vector art, puppeting, motion capture, and tweening have helped evolve moving images from a niche in specialty TV and film onto banners, GIFs, YouTube cartoons, and live web events. Where a studio of dedicated artists once worked around the clock for weeks to produce a few minutes of film, now an individual can put together a professional-quality clip in days or hours. Make your vision come alive with powerful 2D animation software.
Explore the sophisticated animation features in Animate.
Import vector drawings
Add vector drawings and background images to your stage. Scale and adjust your graphics for your project.
Declare symbols
Declare the parts to be animated as movie clip symbols. This allows you to animate these parts of your vector drawings on the timeline.
Animate
Create your animation by choosing the position of your symbols on keyframes. If a symbol moves across the stage, pick the starting and ending frames and define their positions. With tweening, all the intermediate frames are drawn for you.
Save and export
Save your animation. It is now ready to be used as a clip on the web, in a film, or in a game. Export it for use as HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, Flash/Adobe AIR, or as a GIF or QuickTime movie.
Enhanced easing
Make your animations more lifelike with custom easing for your tweens. Remove the need for intermediate keyframes to smooth the flow of your characters.
Sound synchronisation
Coordinate music or sound effects with actions in your animations. Attach sound to buttons or the movements of your characters.
Bone tool
Make your characters move in a fluid, natural manner by defining bones. Attach limbs and define joints to allow smooth movements across the entire character.
Create animated clips that leap off the screen with 3D animation software.
Take your animation to the next level with space and depth. Create fluid camera swoops while keeping your animation workflow simple and intuitive. Make it come alive and take your viewers along for the journey with industry-leading, intuitive 3D animation software. With efficient design, tweening, and puppeting tools, it has never been easier to make your animation stand out.
Animation software with powerful 3D features.
Add artwork
Import vector drawings and backgrounds for your sequence. Scale and adjust to your stage project.
Space layers
Define the spatial placement of the artwork layers and camera. Experiment with camera movement to see how artwork changes on the screen.
Animate
Choose your keyframes to animate your artwork. Once the movement in a scene has been defined, design your camera movements to pan and zoom through your animation.
Save and export
Save and export your animation. It can be used in games, web, or video as an HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, Flash/Adobe AIR, GIF, or QuickTime movie.
3D translation
Move your artwork in 3D space by shifting it closer or further from the screen. Create a consistent feeling of depth.
3D transformation
Rotate your artwork relative to the plane of the screen. Stretch your 2D artwork into the distance and create natural depth.
Perspective Angle and Vanishing Point
Accentuate or reduce the apparent depth of your animation by adjusting the Perspective Angle. Move the Vanishing Point to change the viewer’s position relative to the action.
Features to make quick work of animation.
Add artwork
Import background images, objects, and character artwork. Scale and adapt your artwork to your stage and experiment with compositions.
Add controls
Your computer webcam, MIDI device, mouse, or keyboard can be linked to animation triggers. Define facial features, body parts, and other artwork to move in response to your actions.
Build armatures
Add bones and joints to your animation. A character’s armature controls how it moves and creates a more lifelike response to puppetry triggers.
Record and save
Act out your scene using your puppets. The finished sequence can be saved and added into a Character Animator sequence or used as a finished animation.
Pose-to-pose movement
Set minimum intervals that your puppet holds a pose. Keep the animation from becoming too jittery. Lip sync behavior is not affected by this feature, so speech still remains natural.
Auto-rigging
Set up your artwork to speed up puppet creation. Predefined object grouping names in your vector art are automatically rigged in Character Animator.
Live streaming
Export your animation in real time to Facebook Live, YouTube, or another third-party app. With sufficient puppeteers and animators, you can do multi-character interactive broadcasts.
Conclusion
With Adobe® Character Animator, you can easily bring the characters in your story to life by simply drawing strokes and adding voice over using Character Animator. Now available as a free beta download, this breakthrough technology makes it possible to bring any character to life across a range of devices without code.
Adobe® Character Animator CC software and technology puts the power of animation in anyone’s hands, freeing designers, artists, educators, and students to bring characters to life with ease. You can now create rich interactive animations with 2D and 3D content, regardless of your level of expertise and without fussing with code or plug-ins.