From the course: Using Character Animator in Production
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Make layers and objects glow and flash - Character Animator Tutorial
From the course: Using Character Animator in Production
Make layers and objects glow and flash
- The free walk bot provided by Adobe has some fun blinking lights on its head and its body. Let's add a bigger flashing light that glows. (jazzy trumpet music) so the lights that you see on the head and body are just a running cycle of three different images, three different layers, that were created that match up with the black and white lines on the drawing. I'd like to add a single light that flashes on and off with a really big glow. And looking at it, we've got this big 42. Let's just call it Robot 42 it's probably his name. I'd say he probably needs to have that flash. Alright let's go through it. So we need to edit this character in the original program we created him in which in this case is PhotoShop. So to make sure that we do the editing on the actual file that we're using here what we'll do is we'll go to edit, drop down to edit original. So this will open up PhotoShop with this instance of the puppet in it. So the first step here is we're going to work in the head group.…
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Lighting for the best motion capture2m 6s
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Where to set your camera1m 53s
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The importance of "Set Rest Pose"1m 39s
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Record live audio for the best head movement1m 25s
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Slow motion recording3m 44s
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Drag your character with motion trigger5m 4s
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Shortcut to pause character head motion1m 43s
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Make an arm go in front of and behind a character4m 23s
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Hold prop upright1m 54s
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Make layers and objects glow and flash5m 27s
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