Red Monster Live! (Adobe Character Animator Livestream)

Red Monster answered your questions live, covering everything from his digital payment preferences to his karaoke song of choice. Then Dave stepped in for a few minutes to give a behind the scenes look at how this puppet & set was made. Thanks to everyone who showed up for the live show (recorded on February 27, 2017).

0:00 Red Monster Q&A
15:57 Behind the Scenes
23:12 More Red Monster Q&A

[terrysharing]

You are awesome! When I was young, back in the 50's Jim Henson was just starting. I always wanted to be him. A creative genius and master puppeteer. Never made it. Now you help us know how to do that with ACA. I'm so grateful for your videos. Now I'm about to be 65. I feel like I can do this and make something I can be proud of. Many thanks!

[Sockcop]

Great work! I dig seeing create folk experiment with livestreaming. Keep up the goodness!

[scribs]

Red Monster.. You would destroy me in a karaoke battle haha I'm amazed!!

[koillisnapaoy]

Thank you red monster! Thank you Samurai :) (sounds like Alanis Morissette songs..) Thanks Adobe. 15 years ago, Adobe was a curse word. Too expensive license, and too costly to come up with anything creative. Nobody wanted to pay for you creativity..
Today, I'm overwhelmed, spellbound. The best purchase I've made this year - I can have the bunch of apps with only a cost of one night drinks at a bar! And I can really make great shit happen! Truly awesome!

[ahmedk]

very nice, you should make a market for this program

[salvadormarley]

are there any tutorials of how to connect up to youtube live - step by step?

[xuanlee]

Thank you! These videos are fantastic and help a lot.
I want to achieve the effect at 22:07
But I can't get the webcam work in Character animator and OBS same time.
Can you share the OBS and NDI settings?

[yasinguzel]

Hello, Thank you for all videos. Could you elaborate walk cycle ?

[Mike_in_Thailand]

Some of us are not great at doing voiceovers, it would be nice if there was a text to audio option, perhaps something from the Audition text to audio module ? have a male, female, robot voice, some basic effects to change the pitch and tone to give a natural or cartoon style sound ....any chance of this in the future ?

[makileven]

So i recently started having some issues.
Whenever i compute my lip syncing from pre-recorded audio..it works well on playback. However, as soon as i hit record to record another action...the audio playback lags heavily and you can see the lip sync running away from the audio...i really don't know why this is happening, because previously it was working quite well. Has anyone else encountered this issue?

[tareeko]

Great video! Is it possible to motion track two characters at once?

[AliLeo]

Hi man, how do you change the camera angle? for wide angle to narrow one

[elid]

do you workfor adobe, and how did u get a job with them? also when can we expect new update and what is going to be in it?

[yunyi]

How'd you get the background in character animator?

[pandapicks]

This is pretty sweet! I saw an adobe video of some behind the scenes footage from the late show with Stephen Colbert of them doing live animations of cartoon Trump and Putin. Thanks for the working files. I'm sure I'll learn a lot from them.

[universalnicole]

Ok so I have an arm and I am trying to duplicate it several times to then cycle the layers so that it will move. My dilemma is that the arm has vines and thorns on it and it would be painstaking to have to move all of them each time. Is there a way to select the whole group including the arm, vines, and thorns, and then duplicate and position it?

[austinwarhurst]

During Live Stream are you able to use Audition to process any audio like change pitch of voice?

[DJBranOn]

Oh dang! I had a really important question for you. Do you know if or when adobe will implement MIDI or something of the like in Character Animator? I think that it will greatly help with live performances!

[Arabiscuits]

you had a video on how to improve lip syncing, by keep top jaw in line, i cant find it?

[braindancerlearning]

Hi Dave,
Can you do a tutorial for a teacher teaching students US History? I was thinking something like a sports desk with two speakers (me and another teacher puppet) and the forground of an audience that jiggles around and fidgets. It would be like looking at the back of people's heads in a movie theater while watching a movie. Does that make sense? Different triggers would make the "shadow people" move around while the two speaker puppets would teach. Here is what I'm trying to accomplish: I need to get the kids interested enough to remember what they learned instead of those old movies from the 60's and 70's that put people to sleep. I believe I can improve their learning by giving them something that will get and keep their attention for five to ten minutes. I have been trying for a month and I'm failing. If I could show videos of historic places in the background, that would be even way better. I think I have information overload. Please help me out. Thanks