Classic animation, which had its greatest exponents with Disney and Warner, In itself it was and is a very laborious process as each frame has to be drawn of the several that can contain each second of, for example, a short of 5 minutes. A work that is already handmade and that has been relegated by 3D animation that is so in trend these days and that it exalts programs like Photoshop, Maya or 3DMax.
If already at the time the animators had to look in a mirror to find the different facial gestures to take them to the animated characters, with the new Adobe tool called Character Animator the thing will be easier than ever, since we can use our own face to animate a character.
This new Adobe program lets you control and animate 2D characters using a microphone, your own webcam, and your own face. It will no longer be necessary to use the different clicks on a design program to create the art of animating the face of an animated character.
Adobe Character Animator is the latest creation to join the Creative Cloud suite and will be available as a preview version very soon. The software allows you to track all head movements and facial expressions, including blinking, eyebrow movement, or gaze, to instantly reproduce them in a suite of layers created in Photoshop or Illustrator. Layers may be named to indicate which part of the face they correspond to. so it will be even easier.
The program can analyze the voice to generate automatic lip sync, a feature that is available in competing software such as Toon Boom programs.
Adobe wants this program it will help novice artists who want to create animations of their characters and for the more professionals who want to create complex characters without having to use the most complicated expressions in After Effects. The program allows you to include a good number of automatic poses while allowing you to control other parts with the keyboard or mouse, apart from the fact that they can be saved and edited whenever you want.
Adobe Character Animator will arrive in the next update of After Effects CC.