Animate your characters and watch art imitate life.

Create 2D characters in Adobe Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC and bring them to life in Character Animator CC (Beta). Act out movements and record your voice using your webcam and microphone. Character Animator tracks your facial expressions and motions in real time, so when you smile, your character does too.

Character Animator (Beta)

Fast ways to make heads turn and jaws drop.

Quickly create interactive puppets with built-in character templates or by combining different puppet parts from your Photoshop and Illustrator files. Control actions with your mouse or use keyboard shortcuts to make heads, arms, and legs move. Character Animator automatically captures your voice and mimics mouth movements for effortless lip-syncing.
Use templates or existing artwork
Build your character from scratch in Illustrator or Photoshop — or start with a built-in template in Character Animator. 
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Puppets from scratch
Use your webcam to transform 2D artwork into animated characters whose movements map to your facial expressions.
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Control movement with behaviors
Easily control your puppet’s movement by adding or removing behaviors like head turn and auto blink. 
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Create faster using multiple files
Quickly export live feeds of your animations for broadcast.
The Simpsons  

Look who made his live TV debut. Woo-hoo!

The Simpsons creators used Character Animator to get Homer off the couch and onto live TV in a history-making first for animation. See how they did it, then get the app and bring your own 2D characters to life.
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