Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Auto-swap is a new feature in Adobe Character Animator Beta that allows you to specify what artwork shows at what position, allowing creators to merge the worlds of frame-by-frame animation and performance capture. In this video we'll walk through several examples of puppets using Auto-swap, as well as some instances of the new Leader/Follower behavior to pick up objects like a coffee cup or sword. Learn more at adobe.com/go/ch_autoswap.

0:00 Intro
2:38 Basic Rigging
8:23 Additional Examples
15:13 Outro

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