Recent technologies have led to one of the easiest way for animators to work on their characters, filming their own face and the character copies it. Adobe's new character animator allows a Photoshop or Illustrator layered character's face follow the features of the animator via a web cam. This allows ease of animating eyebrows, eye position, simple head movements, and blinking, along with lip syncing as well. A program like this can help out beginners who are new to character animation and experts alike. Currently the program can even aid in characters breathing and swaying body parts.
A rather small article, but neat. This is an animator's dream, and by that I mean an easy way to do a tedious task. Facial movements are normally not an incredibly hard thing to animate, however time and time again one might find themselves looking in a mirror to see what their expression looks like at a certain time. This software can make that happen much more quickly. Just record your own face and boom, easy. I'm certain it probably has its bugs and kinks now, but think about what this could mean for the future! You could film your entire body and have the computer do all the work! Walk cycles will actually be fun! And, NO MORE BONE TOOL!!!
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