From the course: Using Character Animator in Production

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Add breathing to a character

Add breathing to a character - Character Animator Tutorial

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Add breathing to a character

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- Adding the illusion of breathing to your character is easy. And it gives it life. So here we're using the windigo puppet that's a free download from Adobe and you can download right here from Character Animator off of your start tab. And when you download and start using this, it already has the breathing tag attached to it. However, I removed it so I can show you how easy it is to set it up on your puppet. So let's go over to the rig tab here and you see all the different layers, the way it's set up, the way it comes in from Photoshop. And I'm going to click on the character layer, windigo. Not head, not body, actually the main one. And I'm going to come down here and I'm going to grab our handle tool, and I'm going to place it right in the middle of the chest. That's where I like to breathe from. And that opens up the tag window over here on the right. So I'm going to drag down and you'll see breathe. So I'm going to tag that handle we just put breathe and you'll see it shows up…

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