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Working with drawn characters

Working with drawn characters - Character Animator Tutorial

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Working with drawn characters

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[Instructor]- 2D drawn puppets are the fastest and easiest to create. Let's take a look at a couple of things to watch for as you're creating your 2D drawn puppet. (upbeat music) I actually like to build my puppet in the actual layers the way character animator wants to read it. So for instance, once again I have in Photoshop, and this will work the same way if you work in Illustrator, you create your first folder, the name of your puppet, open that up and you'll see many other folders. So we've got the Head layer, I'll turn that off, see the head disappears and we have the body layer, which includes the arms and the legs. Now in this one you'll see I have a layer called Touch Face. Now Touch Face is this arm. Now as you can see, this arm, the layer is in front of the face. That's important because I need this arm to bend around and be able to touch his face. Whereas the arms that are on the body, if I move the body layer up, notice the arms on the body are behind the head. So I can…

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