Archive republication: This article was originally published on 24 August 2020. It has been translated into English and lightly updated for clarity while preserving the original reporting and context.
Public Beta
Adobe’s 2020 Character Animator public beta introduced Speech-Aware Animation, which adapted a puppet’s head and eyebrow movements to a voice recording. Other beta features included improved lip synchronisation, limb inverse kinematics and timeline-organisation tools.
Character Animator animated static characters imported from Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, driving mouth and facial movement from performance input.
Availability and Further Information
Adobe described the beta features in its Character Animator blog post. At the time, Adobe planned to move the features into the Creative Cloud release later in 2020.
Speech-Aware Animation had previously appeared as Project Sweet Talk at Adobe MAX:
