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Journey of a Multidisciplinary Artist Merging Creativity with Instructional Design.

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  • Simple Steps to Rig Your Puppet in Adobe Character Animator

    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.…

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  • PS + Character Animator

    PS + Character Animator

    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,…

  • Auto Swap

    Auto Swap

    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…

  • Character Animator

    Character Animator

    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…

  • screen break

    screen break

    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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