Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Adobe Firefly's text to image feature lets you generate imaginative characters and assets with AI. But what if you want to turn them into animated characters with performance capture and control over elements like arm movements, pupils, talking, and more? In this tutorial, we'll walk through the process of taking a static Adobe Firefly character and turning it into an animated puppet using Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator plus Character Animator.

0:00 Intro
0:57 Generating artwork
1:47 Photoshop Basic Prep
6:19 Character Animator Basic Rigging
8:07 Eyes
14:02 Mouth
19:48 Arms & Physics Prep
26:05 Arms & Physics Rigging
32:02 Using Adobe Illustrator
34:59 Outro

Check out Adobe Firefly: firefly.adobe.com
Download Character Animator: adobe.com/products/character-animator.html
Get free puppets: adobe.com/go/chexamples (official adobe puppets) / okaysamurai.com/puppets (okay samurai puppets)
Check out the official forums: adobe.com/go/chfeedback
Share your creations on social media with #CharacterAnimator!

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