From the course: Using Character Animator in Production

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Create usable digital puppets

Create usable digital puppets - Character Animator Tutorial

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Create usable digital puppets

- The best way to get started is to download some of Adobe's free puppets. So when you're in Character Animator, go to your Start tab. And they have four of them posted here, and if you click on See More, you'll be able to get a lot more. And they list underneath the different things that they already have preset. So I would definitely start with Blank Face and Chloe. So let's go ahead and take a look at those really quick. So for every character, there's a master folder called +Character. Plus means that it can move independently without warping anything else around it. Of course, that's the main character. Within that, you're going to have Head and Body. Now this sample, Blank Face, doesn't have a body, so you'll just see this folder called Head. And within Head, you're going to have the different elements, and all of these are named exactly the way the software wants it named. So you're going to have to copy this exactly. So one of the things we recommend is for your first couple…

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