{"id":21505,"date":"2024-01-19T11:48:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=21505"},"modified":"2024-01-19T11:48:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:48:20","slug":"tutorial-firefly-character-animator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/19\/tutorial-firefly-character-animator\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial: Firefly + Character Animator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Helping discover Dave Werner &amp; bring him into Adobe remains one of my favorite accomplishments at the company. He continues to do great work in designing characters as well as the tools that can bring them to life. Watch how he combines Firefly with Adobe Character Animator to create &amp; animate a stylish tiger:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Making Animated Characters with AI Art (Adobe Character Animator Tutorial)\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zSN76gb_Z28?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Adobe Firefly&#8217;s text to image feature lets you generate imaginative characters and assets with AI. But what if you want to turn them into animated characters with performance capture and control over elements like arm movements, pupils, talking, and more? In this tutorial, we&#8217;ll walk through the process of taking a static Adobe Firefly character and turning it into an animated puppet using Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator plus Character Animator. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zSN76gb_Z28&amp;t=0s\">0:00<\/a> Intro <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zSN76gb_Z28&amp;t=57s\">0:57<\/a> Generating artwork <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zSN76gb_Z28&amp;t=107s\">1:47<\/a> Photoshop Basic Prep <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zSN76gb_Z28&amp;t=379s\">6:19<\/a> Character Animator Basic Rigging<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zSN76gb_Z28&amp;t=487s\">8:07<\/a> Eyes <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zSN76gb_Z28&amp;t=842s\">14:02<\/a> Mouth <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zSN76gb_Z28&amp;t=1188s\">19:48<\/a> Arms &amp; Physics Prep <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zSN76gb_Z28&amp;t=1565s\">26:05<\/a> Arms &amp; Physics Rigging <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zSN76gb_Z28&amp;t=1922s\">32:02<\/a> Using Adobe Illustrator <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zSN76gb_Z28&amp;t=2099s\">34:59<\/a> Outro<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helping discover Dave Werner &amp; bring him into Adobe remains one of my favorite accomplishments at the company. He continues to do great work in designing characters as well as the tools that can bring them to life. Watch how he combines Firefly with Adobe Character Animator to create &amp; animate a stylish tiger:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[71,66,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21506,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21505\/revisions\/21506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}