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Making Characters Move in Unity
July 28, 2020A common requirement is to have characters move around a scene. There are different ways of achieving this with different degrees of complexity. As I ...
Timelines and Cameras in Unity
July 27, 2020In this post I summarize the Unity terminology related to Cinemachine timelines and cameras. Cinemachine is a package for Unity design to create cutscenes or ...
VRoid Studio Characters and Animation in Unity
July 26, 20203D models are created by external applications and then loaded into Unity as assets. Characters, furniture, buildings etc are all models. VRoid Studio can export ...
Unity Basic Terminology
July 25, 2020There are a few foundational concepts that are worth understanding in Unity. These concepts are used in a variety of ways, as will be shown ...
Installing VRoid Studio and Unity
July 21, 2020In this post I give an overview of how to install VRoid Studio and Unity. Both products have installation instructions that I recommend you read ...
Setting the scene: VRoid + Unity for animated cartoons
July 20, 2020"I wonder how hard it would be to use VRoid Studio and Unity to create an animated movie?" I am starting this series of blog ...
Project Wookie - A Beginner YouTube Playlist
October 22, 2018I have been creating a series of Live Streams on put into a playlist called "Project Wookie" on my Behind the Scenes channel on YouTube. ...
Music Videos in Character Animator (part 3)
August 30, 2018I have previously shared two videos on YouTube on some ideas for syncing animation with a music track in Adobe Character Animator. But there as ...
Comics via Adobe Character Animator and Indesign
August 21, 2018After hitting some delays with volunteer voice actors, I decided to have a go at turning my animation into a comic. No voice actors required! ...
Timing Music with Character Animator movements
August 8, 2018I just did a YouTube video of some ways to get more precise recordings of hand positions etc. Hopefully contains some useful tips. (This page ...
Dangles and Physics (Collisions) Don't Mix
August 2, 2018This is just a pointer to a post I did in the forums, so I can find it again later: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2520232. Basically the physics collision ...
Extending Artwork and Fixing the Origin
August 2, 2018This is a pointer to a forum post I did, so I can find it again later. It talks about the need to fix the ...
Adobe Character Animator Behaviors
July 8, 2018This post is for intermediate Adobe Character Animator users. It goes into “behaviors” in greater depth than may be first clear from reading the user ...
Exporting Adobe Character Animator Videos with Transparency
July 8, 2018Adobe Character Animator (Ch) integrates with other Adobe products such as Adobe After Effects (AE) and Adobe Premier Pro (PP) using a feature called “Dynamic ...
Titles and Captions on Your Animations
April 27, 2018Character Animator can do some cool animations, but it does not have any build in support for titles or captions. So how should you go ...
A First 360 View Photo
April 24, 2018With Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) being all the rage, tools for 360 degree views are getting better. Even this WordPress blog can ...
Debugging Adobe Character Animator Eyes
April 21, 2018A common issue for newcomers in the Character Animator (Ch) forums is getting eyes to work correctly. They are a bit finicky, but I find ...
Music and Sound Effects
March 30, 2018Well, I thought I was pretty well done and ready to publish episode 1. I had the animation all complete, voices all recorded, a final ...
Generating a MP4 Video from Unity 3D
February 12, 2018It took me a little to find, but generating videos from Unity 3D turns out to be not that hard. (Well, its not 100% sorted ...
Project Structure Update
February 8, 2018My previous post on Project Structure was before I had completed my first episode. So, what has survived as I move on to episode 2 ...
Butterflies and Poppies
February 4, 2018This is for some background filler for a future episode. I wanted to get a bit of nature in the background, so decided to have ...
Early Photos
February 1, 2018The characters may be tweaked further before they are introduced into various episodes, but some early photos introducing the main characters. Sam, the center of ...
Project Structure
December 4, 2017In this blog I describe how I am organizing my project of creating an animated cartoon episode. Please feel free to share your experiences in ...
Tool Chain
December 4, 2017In this post I describe the tool chain I currently use behind the scenes to create an animated video clip. It’s basically the Adobe Creative ...