New anime and fantasy Puppet Maker styles in Adobe Character Animator
Puppet Maker in Adobe Character Animator allows everyone to create their own custom characters with just a few clicks. Customize an animated character and get a unique puppet to use in your own creations. Puppet Maker lets you select a style, pick features like skin color and clothing, and generate a final optimized puppet for animating.
The Cecy style combines nature and fantasy. Sprite, fairy, imp, pixie, or elf, Cecy could be any number of puppets. Customizable options from wings, ears, hats, eye shapes, clothing, and so much more, make it possible to create a whole cast of characters. Download Cecy here.
Cecy was created by storyboard artist and animator, Yuri Pineda. Having grown up on a ranch, the outdoors inspired and sparked her passion for fantasy. Reflecting on the templates, Pineda says, “My passion for the wilderness was an inspiration for creating this puppet. Working with the Character Animator team to design a fantasy-based puppet was a pleasure.” Through her art she wants to positively impact individuals and immerse the audience in journeys they have never dreamt of. Recently, she was a story artist mentee within the Netflix Animation Foundations Program. Previously, she worked as an animator and lead retake animator at ATTN:.
DeMarco Crews, a storyboard artist and 2D animator, is the creator of the anime inspired Nagisa Puppet Maker style, and shares a similar passion for animation. “It's been a great experience creating a customizable Anime puppet for Adobe’s Character Animator Puppet Maker application — being able to create endless combinations as well as see all of the possible functionalities of the puppet has never been easier with the Puppet Maker program. I hope that you will enjoy the puppet that I’ve made and look forward to seeing all of the puppets that everyone makes in the future,” he said.
Nagisa has a wide variety of customizable options. These include clothing, hair, head coverings, eye shapes, nose shapes, lots of hand movements, and more. Additionally, Nagisa comes with many different hats for different occasions like a jack-o-lantern, Santa hat, party hat, or cosplay ears and tail. Download Nagisa.
Along with Cecy and Nagisa you can also find five other character styles on the Puppet Maker page.
- Kyo, an additional anime style is by artist Nikki Goldberg.
- The Crafty style comes from Dovid Taub.
- Check out Rampy and Jump Kid created by Konee Rok. These unique styles use Cycle Layers to add motion to the styles.
- Okay Samurai brings us Puppetbot, a flame throwing robot.
Have you always wanted to animate? There has never been a better time to get started. Make an animated explainer video or a social media post. Make your own puppet using the Cecy or Nagisa styles.
Resources
- Learn about Puppet Maker here.
- And learn about the new Transcript-based Lip Sync.
- Get inspired by the latest Community Spotlight.
- Learn more about using Character Animator here.