This course teaches you to build engaging and entertaining animated content with the free Adobe Character Animator, Adobe Character Animator Starter provides you with pre-made puppets and allows you to record your own voices or gestures, or use pre-recorded audio, to create fun and engaging content. Animated characters can provide life to narrated eLearnings, instructional videos, announcements, social media posts, and advertisements.

 Note: Character Animator is NOT a video editing tool. It allows you to complete a video with an animated puppet but is best used in conjunction with other programs such as PowerPoint, Adobe Premiere, iMovie, Clipchamp, Articulate Storyline, Davinci Resolve, and Avid Media composer.

Performance Objectives: Upon completion of this course, you should be able to: 

• Activate a pre-made puppet.
• Import free puppets from Adobe sites or those that you have made yourself.
• Set up your camera and microphone.
• Record mouth animations.
• Import pre-recorded audio to trigger mouth animations.
• Add gestures to your recording.
• Export your recording.
• Change and customize your background.
• Change the orientation of your recording.
• Import your completed recording into another program.

Intended Audience: Elearning developers, training coordinators, content creators, and communications specialists.