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I’ve been continuing to practice rigging in Adobe Character Animator, which reads character files from Photoshop (or Illustrator). I strongly prefer drawing in Procreate, though, so after I finish my artwork I bring everything into Photoshop and reorganize the layers so Character Animator can read them properly. It’s a bit…

Tried Character Animator Auto Swap for the first time. It was… interesting. Kinda magic, kinda work in progress. I only set it up with two…

This might be the most fun creative work has felt in a long time. There’s something so deeply satisfying about getting lost in a new…

What started as a short December break in 2024, turned into an almost eight-month hiatus. I did finish my master’s degree in Instructional Design and…

Something unexpected and pretty amazing happened this month—Mr. @thedugmahnke, a DC comic artist, visited my site! Not only did he say it was “cool,” but…

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Nikki Tibbett: artist, teacher, instructional designer… sometimes amateur animator.
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