Angel & Devil
Characters generated using Adobe Firefly and rigged for Character Animator. Featured in Making Animated AI Character Shorts.
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Willy
Expressive bearded character with tons of triggers: arms, pupils, lids, eyebrows, and mouth. Featured in Advanced Character Tips.
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Turner Bros.
Two examples of how to turn your characters' heads: one with the Head Turner behavior, one using the Face behavior's parallax. Featured in Head Turns & Parallax.
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Heller
Simple vector-based kid with physics hair and triggered pupils / eyelids / poses. Also includes a background image.
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Linden
Standing and walking versions of a guitar playing kid. Featured in Mixing Animation and Reality.
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Little Lamby
A photographed stuffed animal turned into a simple puppet with a few replay poses.
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Sirr
Camping monster with dynamic expressions and a burning marshmallow. Featured in Advanced Rigging: Monster Camp.
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Narrator Dave
Narrator style character with parallax, eye and mouth triggers, and physics hair. Featured in Complete Animation Workflow.
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Leeta
Papercraft character with face parallax, a physics hair system, and clipping masks. Featured in Advanced Rigging: Leeta.
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Red Monster Live
Used in the Red Monster Live broadcast, this complex puppet has automatic camera changes, overlay graphics, and several animations.
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Clay
Stop-motion character made from photographed modeling clay. Featured in Tips & Tricks - October 2017.
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Wilk
Green monster with head turns and a fire-breathing animation. A good Adobe Illustrator example (but a PSD sample is included as well). Featured in Making Your First Character.
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Evans
Insanely complicated robot with walk cycle, secondary head, weapon hands, blend modes and more. Featured in Tips & Tricks - June 2017 and Evan Flamethrower: Robot Detective.
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Chief
Robot authority figure with a waveform mouth and triggered moustache. Featured in Evan Flamethrower: Robot Detective.
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Mr. ATM
Bank machine with a single Head group and triggered pupil changes. Featured in Evan Flamethrower: Robot Detective.
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Suzanne X3
Female robot with hand swaps and a triggered body screen. Featured in Evan Flamethrower: Robot Detective.
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Cassandra
A good example of hair physics - Cassandra has multiple strands of independent dangle hair and a separate background hair group. Featured in Tips & Tricks - September 2016.
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Replays Example
An example project that teaches the basics of how Replays work. Featured in Replays tutorial.
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Magnets Example
An example project that teaches the basics of how Magnets work. Featured in the Magnets tutorial.
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Ramirez
Short blue monster with head turns and tie dangle. Featured in Jetpack Early Adopter.
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Shmarflop
A hand-drawn sketch cut up in Photoshop and made into a puppet. Draggable with 3 eyes and dangling tentacles. Featured in Character Animator Live - Episode 2.
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Fury
Friendly red monster with triggerable fire hands. Featured in Making Your First Cartoon.
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Acquavella
A bouncy, googly-eyed alien with head turns and a 4-leg walk cycle. Featured in Tips & Tricks - June 2017.
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Dude
A simple face with eye/nose parallax, eyelids, and key triggers. Featured on Character Animator Live - Episode 3.
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Pickupbot
An object interaction example - tap B to "pick up" the box. Featured in Tips & Tricks - Feburary 2017.
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Scribbles
Sketched head that continually cycles through three different lines to give it a kinetic look. Featured in Tips & Tricks - January 2017.
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Crimson
Superhero made for San Diego Comic-Con 2017. Dangling hair and cape as well as fire powers with lighting effects. Featured in Tips & Tricks - August 2017.
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Almasol
Expressive monster talk show host character with a shadow, happy/sad mouth swap set, and subtle nutcracker jaw. Featured in 10 Advanced Rigging Tips.
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Filmbot
One-wheeled robot with blinking lights and several triggers. Featured in New Features - October 2017.
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Walker
Simple walk and head turner example with 3 walk positions, each with a 5 view head turn. Featured in Tips & Tricks - July 2018.
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Stan
Simple flat character with a clipping mask, layer picker and fader behaviors, and face parallax. Featured in New Features - October 2017.
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Blank Template
Blank Photoshop and Illustrator files to help you get started making your own puppets - just fill in the layers! Featured in Building Your Own Animated Face.
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Mouth Template
Mouth templates for simple and advanced lip sync setups in Photoshop and Illustrator. Includes a PDF about making custom mouths. Featured in Creating Lip Sync Mouths.
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