Ryan Maloney shows how to build a simple cartoon character in Illustrator and set it up for automatic lip-sync in Character Animator. He draws a baloney sandwich on rollerblades, organizes the artwork into layers with separate mouth shapes for each phoneme, then names them so Character Animator can auto-animate the character using a webcam.
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How to animate a simple cartoon character and have it auto lip sync to save you time. First, you're going to create it, then you're going to set it up. You're going to need Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Character Animator. Then we're going to auto animate it with a camera. I should have drawn a little camera. Maybe I'll draw a little camera so you get the point. Is that a camera? Okay, that's a terrible camera. First, we're going to draw a baloney sandwich on rollerblades. Then we bring the character into Adobe Illustrator. Don't worry about these layers. We're just going to design the character first. So build out the character. I'm sorry, my desk is a mess. Build it with simple shapes. And now once it's done, we're going to focus on building mouth shapes for each one of these layers. And make sure you keep the layers named exactly as they are in my file or one of the files that you download from Adobe Character Animator. Then get some seltzer going before part 2.