Should it be Done?
. As we all know, back in the day, animation used to be done by doing pencil drawings on cels for hours of end to create fluid animation up until the creation of digital animation and to do it with a click of a mouse. Though, now Adobe has been experimenting with the idea of motion capture animation using a webcam and microphone to create basic animated movements on a 2D character. The new program Adobe Character Animator was put up on Creative Cloud for a preview on the idea of the concept. It's even said that lip syncing would be possible if separate layers are named the different body parts so it would be an automatic thing to do in the program, to make it even more easier on the animator at hand.
Looking at the video at hand, the program gives in depth character animation opinions such as breathing and physics that gives the character more life. As well as connecting the microphone and webcam for action and lip syncing that could easily be done to modify the scale, rotate and depth of the character as well as eyebrows and emotions making it easy to not keyframe each scene.
It Don't Really Know
. The Adobe Character Animator is a good idea to think about, bringing motion capture animation to your laptop, minus the cost of that ridiculous suit with all those motion balls on it. Makes it much easier and less of a joke. The program looks interesting and easy to navigate from what the video showed and how all the programs work with each other, I like that feature like how AE and PR work with each other nicely.
Even with the potential of easy animation, it is still in the works and you could tell. It looks simple and not professional. It seems to be a thing you would play with and not makes serious work. Like how Skype or programs let you move characters with the camera. It's not a new idea. I just think it needs to be polished and why should people animate this way, it's like giving actors our jobs and, we wouldn't want that.
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