Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Bring your rig to life and ship a finished scene.
We record in passes (face, lip-sync, draggers), trim & edit visemes, compute lip-sync from external audio, manage multiple puppets/scenes, add image-sequence effects with Cycle Layers, and export via Adobe Media Encoder.
What you’ll learn
-Record panel refresher: arming behaviors, stacking passes safely
-Trim, move, and organize takes on the timeline
-Viseme editing: fix or replace mouth shapes; when to add silence
-Compute Lip-Sync from Scene Audio (external WAV/MP3)
-Toggle background (hide PSD BG; viewer background colors)
-Add/organize folders (Puppets/Scenes/Audio/Backgrounds) in Project panel
-Work with multiple puppets (duplicate/replace source) & simple staging
-Cycle Layers for PNG sequences (start triggers, directions, loop rules)
-Export: H.264 via Adobe Media Encoder, PNG+WAV sequences, stills, Dynamic Link
Course files & updates
🔗 Course and Project files (PSD/rig assets): udemy.com/course/rigging-and-recording-in-adobe-character-animator/learn/lecture/11957714#overview
🔗 Updated 2023 version of this course: udemy.com/course/animating-with-adobe-character-animator/learn/lecture/38261302#overview
🔗 Full playlist (all chapters): youtube.com/playlist?list=PL75fjdmpFwHGOqLdNML0Hhtin1N08RooC&si=KgeARU_SOwCvCB6G
Timestamps (adjust after upload)
00:00 Intro & context (Udemy archive + updates)
00:38 Navigating the Timeline Resetting rig for recording, record panel tour, Background cleanup
08:40 Voice recording, Viseme editing: select/replace, add Silence, fine trims
11:37 External audio: import file → Compute Lip-Sync from Scene Audio
15:22 Multiple puppets: duplicate, replace source (alt color), scale/position
25:36 Image sequence FX: import smoke PNGs → Cycle Layers options (start mode, direction, frame advance, continuous/once, ping-pong, hold last frame, trigger finish)
28:43 Export options: Media Encoder (H.264), PNG+WAV sequence, still frame, Dynamic Link
30:51 Conclusion and using the playlist to navigate chapters
About this series
Recorded in 2018 and well-reviewed on Udemy. I’m archiving it here because the fundamentals still help. I add update notes where tools changed and link to a refreshed 2023 version.
Support & next steps
👍 If this helped, subscribe & ring the bell for Chapter 2
💬 Comment the next topic you want covered
📧 Business: troftgruben.com/contact
#adobecharacteranimator #characteranimator #animationtutorial #lipsync #export
Bring your rig to life and ship a finished scene.
We record in passes (face, lip-sync, draggers), trim & edit visemes, compute lip-sync from external audio, manage multiple puppets/scenes, add image-sequence effects with Cycle Layers, and export via Adobe Media Encoder.
What you’ll learn
-Record panel refresher: arming behaviors, stacking passes safely
-Trim, move, and organize takes on the timeline
-Viseme editing: fix or replace mouth shapes; when to add silence
-Compute Lip-Sync from Scene Audio (external WAV/MP3)
-Toggle background (hide PSD BG; viewer background colors)
-Add/organize folders (Puppets/Scenes/Audio/Backgrounds) in Project panel
-Work with multiple puppets (duplicate/replace source) & simple staging
-Cycle Layers for PNG sequences (start triggers, directions, loop rules)
-Export: H.264 via Adobe Media Encoder, PNG+WAV sequences, stills, Dynamic Link
Course files & updates
🔗 Course and Project files (PSD/rig assets): udemy.com/course/rigging-and-recording-in-adobe-character-animator/learn/lecture/11957714#overview
🔗 Updated 2023 version of this course: udemy.com/course/animating-with-adobe-character-animator/learn/lecture/38261302#overview
🔗 Full playlist (all chapters): youtube.com/playlist?list=PL75fjdmpFwHGOqLdNML0Hhtin1N08RooC&si=KgeARU_SOwCvCB6G
Timestamps (adjust after upload)
00:00 Intro & context (Udemy archive + updates)
00:38 Navigating the Timeline Resetting rig for recording, record panel tour, Background cleanup
08:40 Voice recording, Viseme editing: select/replace, add Silence, fine trims
11:37 External audio: import file → Compute Lip-Sync from Scene Audio
15:22 Multiple puppets: duplicate, replace source (alt color), scale/position
25:36 Image sequence FX: import smoke PNGs → Cycle Layers options (start mode, direction, frame advance, continuous/once, ping-pong, hold last frame, trigger finish)
28:43 Export options: Media Encoder (H.264), PNG+WAV sequence, still frame, Dynamic Link
30:51 Conclusion and using the playlist to navigate chapters
About this series
Recorded in 2018 and well-reviewed on Udemy. I’m archiving it here because the fundamentals still help. I add update notes where tools changed and link to a refreshed 2023 version.
Support & next steps
👍 If this helped, subscribe & ring the bell for Chapter 2
💬 Comment the next topic you want covered
📧 Business: troftgruben.com/contact
#adobecharacteranimator #characteranimator #animationtutorial #lipsync #export
