Hands-off Animating

This article/video is about Adobe's new program they are bringing to their CC service. In Adobe Character Animator, the program detects your face and tracks it through your webcam. It not only tracks your head movements, but also does auto lip sync and lets you assign certain actions to the character. You can also import your own characters through Photoshop or Illustrator. This tool is very useful for animators who want to make simple puppet animations without all the hassle of setting key-frames. I think this program seems useful for people who want to make short videos without wanting to do a bunch of key-framing. And also useful for people who animate in After Effects who maybe want to skip a few steps like Lip-Syncing. I was a bit worried that you would have to use preset characters, but I'm relieved you can import your own. I don't know if I'll use this ever, but it seems useful for a lot of people.