Yep! This is absolutely no problem. While the error might show every time you boot up the .aep, it will not affect the template in any way. The template will still work a 100%. Please read this FAQ or open your ReadMe.txt to know why this is happening.

I’m not sure what you are referring to here. What lines on what shirt do you specifically mean?

To add a logo on a t-shirt you would need to go inside the character composition. First make sure you have selected a plain t-shirt with the Character Creator.

Next, go inside the Character Creator composition you want to use and unshy all the layers. Now you will see a composition called “Torso”. Go inside that composition and drag your logo in to the timeline. Make sure it is the top most layer. Now parent the logo to any of the other shape layers with the parent tool. Now the logo should be stuck to the torso and will move with your character.

I did go inside the torso, but when I put logo on (blue shirt with yellow lines), it flips the logo when the character switches from right to left

You can choose a plain shirt or you would have to delete those lines manually, which is a little bit more work and gives you the exact same result as choosing a plain shirt from the start. But if you want to delete those lines any way, go inside the Character Creator comp and look up the “Torso” again. Get inside the “Torso” comp and look up “F_Shirt 1”. Now twirl down the arrow for that shape layer and go Contents > Group > and you will see “Group 25” and “Group 26”. Delete both of these last groups and gone are the lines.

The logo flipping is totally normal behavior, since the character is flipped the logo will also be flipped. That happens because the logo is inside the character composition

If you want the logo not to be flipped you will have to manually add it to each scene. So this time you go inside your desired scene( Scene 1 for example) and unshy all layers. Now you will see a character animation composition. You can place your logo again in the timeline on top of the character and parent it to the actual animated character composition(i.e. “Walking + Waving” in Scene 1). This way it will stay in place. If it still does flip, you could change the scale values for the logo from 100 100 to -100 -100 to flip it back.

Hello and thanks for your purchase! If you are new to AE I recommend you to watch all tutorials first and only then start editing the template.

Regarding your request, you could do this either in two ways. Or you go to your Character Creator 1 composition, select the Main Controller layer and change your character appearance in the Effect Control window to look exactly like character 2 and the import the “walking+fixing collar” comp from the Character 1 folder into the scene.

Or you could import character 2 into scene 1. Just drag the “walking+fixing collar” composition from the Project Window inside Scene 1 that you have opened up on the Timeline window. Now you can go to the Character Creator 2 composition and still change its appearance from there if you’d like.

Please watch tutorials ”#3 Creating Your Character”, ”#3.5 Creating Your Character [with Version 2”] and ”#5 Create Your Story” inside the “Basic” folder and tutorial ”#1 Updates in V3” in the “V3” folder for more detail on all of this.

Thanks for your very fast reply ! I go for the second method , After I imported character 2 (walking+fixing collar) to scene 1 . Now there are 2 characters ( original character 1 and imported character 2 ) in scene 1 . How to delete original character 1 from scene 1? Thanks

Hit the shy button to reveal all layers and delete the other character composition. Again please watch the tutorials since it is all covered in detail there.

Hi. The facial expressions are currently unable to modify, unless you are quite proficient in AE and want to script it yourself that is.

This character is IK rigged which means that you can move it by dragging and keyframing a couple of Nulls that along the timeline. This gives you a lot of freedom and you can basically make the characters move anyway you like, the only thing is making it look natural. That can require some effort and training but once you get the hang of it you can make really organic animations. There is a brief tutorial included where I show u how to start keyframing the characters.

Thanks! Checking out some of your tracks at the moment and I’m liking it so far

100% sure.. the only missing font “American Typewriter Regular”.. any solution?

Please email me at info [at] motionvids.com so I can email you an .aep file to test things out.

okay done.. check your email..

I’m not entirely sure what you mean by “alphabets” but if you used the text tool, you wouldn’t get the exact same LinkedIn logo font. Have you tried downloading the logos I had linked you to? Those vector shapes should work perfectly in AE as they are the original G+ and LinkedIn logos.

If the Drop Shadow effect didn’t work you could also copy the logo layer and fill it with black and lower the opacity on it. Now set it off a bit to the bottom and you have a shadow. It’s very similar to Photoshop actually.

It seems you tried too many different things and now have accidentally fouled you .aep. You might have accidentally removed some important files of expressions and that is why you get an error on startup. You can re-download a fresh Character Promo Kit.aep through VideoHive and extract the bonus scenes 12 and 15 from there.

Preview 2.aep wasn’t updated and is still at version 1. It’s just a preview project you can use if you don’t want to change around too much. If you want to make your own story and use some of the newer features, I would go with Preview 1.aep or Character Promo Kit.aep.

Also it seems you are working in all three different .aep at the same time? I would just stick with one at a time and not combine them, because that will only cause you trouble in the end.

I can help you but I’m fully scheduled for at least another week. Please contact me through info [at] motionvids.com and send me your error message screenshots and the .aep you are working in and I’ll see what I can do.

Please send me your .aep file to info [at] motionvids.com and I will take a look at it

I work on a quarter reso my computer specs are : 3.4 Ghz Intel core i7 + 16Go Ramm 1333Hhz. I still can’t make any rendering ;(

That should be more than enough for this project! Have you tried re-downloading the project and see if that renders anything? It might be something you have changed along the way?

Please email me at info [at] motionvids.com I’d like you to send me your project file so I can see what is wrong with it.

OK i send you a email

Hey solosin,

Thanks for your suggestions. I will really create more females and do my best to add more features like skirts and dresses in the future.

Well, I don’t have the LinkedIn and Google+ logos available but it is really easy to find them on the web. The logo’s are not too complex since they only exist out of text and no difficult shapes. I have linked to two examples above, which are both vector files that you can convert to shape layers in AE (Right Click > Convert Vector to Shape Layers). Now you have all the freedom to work with. You can delete the excess material from the logos.

I advice you to just use the letters “in” for the LinkedIn logo and “g+” for the Google+ logo because no more would be needed for the viewer to understand them. It will also keep the logos clean and in the same style as the order logos used.

You could easily copy on of the circled shapes in that scene, change its color and place the LinkedIn and Google+ logos on top of them. Next apply the “Fill” effect to the logo and set it to white. Now you could apply a “Drop Shadow” effect to the logo and you have the exact same results as with the other logos. Don’t forget to parent your logo to the Circle Shape layer so it will animate with it.

Hey thanks for calling me Steve, but my actual name is Marco

Well you have 13 Character Creators, so unless you are already using the 13 characters, I wouldn’t know why you will want to duplicate one.

But the way you are describing the replacement of the vector layers is correct. Make sure they are overlaid pixel perfect to the old ones and your animations will run smoothly. You can overlay one of the 13 Character Creators if you want to.

If you want to duplicate a Character Creator you will need to change it’s expressions to be parented to a new Main Controller layer. This is all what complicated and can’t be explained here in the comments.

The best way to avoid this is to simply duplicate your .aep and make new characters in that one, rename the character compositions in there and than import them again in to the original .aep. This way you would have 26 Character Creators without having to rename or redo all the expressions. Just make sure you rename the Character Creator compositions and/or the Main Controller layer.

It’s loud and clear ! thanks Marco but who is Steve

I don’t know

Hey thanks for your kinds words! The solution is quite simple

Go in to the desired scene and hit the “shy” button. Now all layers are visible and you should see a composition that contains the character animation. You could unlock this layer and delete it, or you could turn off the eye-switch in front of it to make it invisible. Either way works.

Now you can drag in your newly created character animations from the project window.

Hope this helps.

Thanks MrGold!

Yes I’m really sorry for the inconvenience. I wish I could split myself in two persons.. Maybe there is someone on the VideoHive forums that could help you out sooner?

hey bro , can u contact me whenever u ready ? our designer can’t do the design, so can u make as simple as the torso and the compliment stuff. i think i have enough time to wait, sorry disturbing ur time marco, thankies !

Please send me an email with more details on the design next week to info [at] motionvids.com I can then re-direct that email to my designer.

Go inside the composition of scene 15 and hit the “shy” button to make all layers visible.

Now press the lock icon in front of the “Lock” shape layer to unlock it. Now you can edit the layer or delete it from the scene.

You can insert any other shape in the composition if you like.

Could you be a bit more specific?

In the “Main Comp” there is a layer called “Color Customizer”. If you select that layer and go to your “Effect Controls” window, you should be able to see the Color Customization effect for all 35 scenes within that one window. Please watch the #2 Color Customizer tutorial for more details.

If the “Color Customizer” effect is not there in the Effects Controls window while you have the “Color Customizer” layer selected, then please re-download your package and try again, you might have accidentally removed something.

If this doesn’t help, please email me with more details through my profile page and I will able to help you.

I figured it out. Color customizer only appears as an option in windows whe!n th elayer is selected. Thank you for your quick help

Yes and you can lock it in place with the little lock icon on top of the “Effect Controls” window so that it not dissapears when you select other layers.

Thanks! This could be a million things.

Have you installed the ChunkFive and Bebas Neue fonts? Are the layers visible in the timeline window? Is the eye-switch switched on? Is the opacity set to 100%? If you hit the “unshy” buttons are there still two “Mask” layers? Are the text layers set to “Alpha Matte”?

I personally think you accidentally re-ordered the layer order and this is why the Mask layers are no long revealing the texts.

These are some of the things that could cause these texts not to show up. Please send me an email through my profile page so that I can help you better

Hi and thanks!

You can flip the character by scaling the composition of a particular character animation into the negative values. So let’s say you have a composition of the character walking in from the left, just change the scale values from 100% 100% to 100% 100%. Only the first horizontal x value needs a “” in front of it.

Now only thing you’ll have to do is reanimate the position so that the character comes walking in from the right side instead of the left.

Hope this helps.

I see what you’re saying, this works for me thanks! Additionally rotating the composition along the y axis after making it a 3-D shape was working for me as well.

It seems something messed up the formatting of my text in the previous reply. Hope it was not too confusing! But I’m glad you got it to work.

Hey thanks for getting back at me with your video! I like what you did with it

Please watch the following video tutorials:

Inside the Basic folder -> #3.5 Creating Your Character [with Version 2] Inside the V3 folder -> #1 Updates in V3

Both briefly explain how you can use up to 13 different characters on screen at the same time.

For example, you will need to go to “Character Creator 7” and double click the composition. Now create your character through the Main Controller 7 > Character Creator (in Effect Controls window). Now back in the “Project Window” you can find a whole lot of pre-made animations for the character you’ve just customized inside Character Creator 7 folder. Pick one of the animation compositions from the project window and you can drag it into any scene or composition you like and you even can create an entirely new scene.

If you want to go more advanced you can also animate your character to do basically any movement with the IK rig. Please check the Advanced folder for that.

In the aforementioned video tutorials I explain all of this briefly.