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After setting up your puppet files in Photoshop , you will bring the files into Adobe Character Animator. Here, you “pin” the puppet—essentially giving your character a skeleton by placing anchor points with the Puppet Pin Tool. These points control movement, acting like handles, bones, and physics all working together.…

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,…

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…

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