Hi Shirani and thanks for your question. The music track is not included with the project.

Hi and thank you for your purchase. I have no idea to why this is happening. Please contact Envato support as this is a website related problem. Meanwhile I will ask around on the forums and see what we can do about this. Don’t worry we’ll figure it out. Just hang in there! Sorry for the inconvenience!

I got an official staff reply saying that you should read this article. It states detailed information about download limits. However I’m not sure how many times you’ve tried to download this. If this happened from the first try please contact Envato support here.

Ok im working with photoshop for 7 years as dev.. earlier i had basic skills with adobe flash and i customized some flash websites – but i did it before 3 years…))

If you want to only do basic customization, editing this template with After Effects and with video tutorials wouldn’t be too hard. Changing text and colors is pretty easy. But as soon as you want more customization, I would advise you to learn the basics of After Effects first. Although the video tutorials explain for example how to create your own animations, it is hard to understand what is happening if you ‘ve never worked in After Effects.

Photoshop and Flash are entirely different programs but the Adobe learning curve is quite the same in After Effects.

Yes thanks – i saw some tutorials with AE – looks more easyer than adobe flash… more intuitive)

That happens in some versions of AE. No real problem here. Please read here for clarification: http://videohive.net/item/character-promo-kit/6613057/support

Hard to say.

The template is made with the beginner in mind. So without any knowledge it is still possible to watch the video tutorials closely and do exactly what is shown in there. This way you will be able to create your characters (just by clicking some buttons and change some sliders), change your text and colors (like photoshop), shuffle up the scenes on the timeline and get a pretty unique video.

That is all beginners stuff and pretty easy, especially for an IT guy/gal. But of course it takes a while to get used to the After Effects user interface, the shortcuts and how the program works in general. So once you do something wrong by accident it would be hard to understand what is going on at first.

If you want to go more in depth and require more customization then the aforementioned you will probably need some more experience in AE.

Hope this helps.

That’s because the texts in scene 5 are pre-comped. So to quote myself from my first reply :

“All text and shape layers within the comp will become unique now, except for compositions.”

So these 3 texts are embedded in compositions and you’ll need to duplicate these comps as well from the project window. You will need to search for those comps in the Project Window and duplicate them there and import them from the project window in your Scene 24.

Just use the search option in the Project Window and search for these comps: “Spends on the web..” “Is the average..” “31 Hours”.

Hi there, sorry I’m a little new to AAF and I may be getting a little confused!.

I started off the animation from the blank template and not from one that had already being created so I dont know if that makes a difference or not…

I have duplicated the scene (Scene 5) and created Scene 24, I have used the search bar in the top of the Project window but it doesnt find “31 Hours”...

Sorry if I am asking too many questions!

No problem! You can also right click these text compositions and > Reveal Layer in Source Project. They are actually named differently so that is my mistake, sorry about that. The comps are named Text 3, Text 4 and Text 5.

Hi jafar and thanks for your purchase!

If you have renamed your compositions in the project window this could be the case! The expressions might not update when you do this but I’m not sure. If you rename them from the timeline window you should be okay.

It could also be you’ve accidently shifted the layer order in your Main Comp. Try to ‘unshy’ all the layer by clicking the shy button and see if the texture layer is still on top!

Awesome! Thanks, it was that the texture layer wasn’t on top. Working perfectly now

Glad to hear that

Yes of course, that is what the entire template is meant to be for: customization Please watch the video tutorials on how to do this.

You could easily change the looks of scenes by just changing some colors through the Color Customizer. Also you can edit the texts to your preference and even change the fonts and sizes and the position on screen.

If you are even more familiar with after effects, you could “unshy” the layers with the shy button and delve right into the works. This way you can change the way things animate in/out and such.

You could also animate your own character movements(although this will require some experience in character animation) which I briefly explain in a video tutorial.

Let me know if you want to know anything more specific I could also answer in Dutch if you’d like.

Hey there and thank you for your purchase! What kind of elements do you need in your portfolio? Do you mean you have separate elements created in After Effects as well? You could easily import those .aep files in After Effects if you want to.

If you want to use separate pre-rendered video files just make sure they are placed underneath the transition shape layers. This way you make sure all the transitions remain working and look nice. To reveal those shape layer be sure to click the “shy” button and reveal all layers. You can even duplicate them and change them to get a more unique transition look. Hope this helps!

What you are trying to achieve is described in the video tutorials but I will once more explain it here.

All you need to do in your Bonus Scene 12 for example, is to unshy all the layers and search for the composition with the character in it. Mostly these compositions go by names of “Walking + Waving”, “Walking + Standing” and so on. I’m not sure what the name is for this comp in the Bonus Scene 12 since I’m doing this all from the top of my head.

Now delete the one inside the Bonus Scene 12 and go to your Project Window. In your Project Window go to your Character Creator 5 folder and browse through the animations folder to get to your “Walking + Waving” composition for Character 5. Now drag that composition in to Bonus Scene 12 and you have your new Character Animation from Character 5 imported into the scene. You might want to animated it in from outside of the screen with the position property. Perhaps you can even copy the position keyframes of the old “Walking + Waving” scene for this. Now you can repeat this step for all 12 other characters if you’d like and have them all onto screen simultaneously.

Thanks for your purchase and your question. Here is the solution:

Go to the first “Character Creator” composition and un-shy all the layers. Now find the “Head” composition and go inside. Now find the “Male Eyes” Shape Layer, unlock it and hit “U” on your keyboard to reveal all expressions. Scroll down to the scale property and edit the expression.

Now in the expression replace the “Walking + Waving” part with “Character Creator”.

Now go back to your “Character Creator” composition and with still the layers un-shy-ed, you would be able to find the “Blinker” layer, you can move the entire layer left and right or the keyframes to alter the blinking movement. You can even delete the loop expressions to change the blinking manually. Or you could add in a random() or randomSeed() expression.

Hope this helps.

It feels like there is a fabric on top of the video. How do I do it?

Hi there! It’s all there explained in the tutorials. I advice you to watch some of them to understand how the template works.

Just select your “Color Customizer” layer and then go to the “Effect Controls” window. Now you can check the “Textures Enabled” checkbox and you will have your textures enabled .

Hi and thank your for your purchase. The way I advertise this template is exactly as I show in the previews. You can customize the characters with the character controllers for fast and easy customization. It is meant for those who don’t have a lot of time on their hands and want to make unique characters by simply pressing some buttons, hence you may have the feeling I have ‘locked down’ the character structure.

In my opinion you can still make a lot of different variations with these customization controllers that are shown in the preview. I agree that there are more options for male customization then for female characters, but that doesn’t have to stop you creating your own female looks. It’s not that hard to dive in the character compositions and change the hairstyles or add your own ones. They are all shape layers so you could adjust them within the compositions by hand. There are actually 3 female hair options, but 2 of them are short and may look a bit male-ish.

I don’t like how you imply I’m falsely advertising this template in your last sentence. $40 is a bargain for a template that took me 3 months to complete. If you want me to help you, you could be a bit nicer in your approach.

If you want to know more about adding a hairstyle or changing the shape of an existing one, you can send me an email through my profile page.

Hi, you are right – my note came off very snarky and I apologize. I didn’t intend to imply your template wasn’t good and wasn’t worth $40 – I rushed my note and I am sorry I offended you.

The template is fantastic, the best character offering on video hive. Thank you for your time creating it.

Thank you for your recommendation, I was able to easily update hairstyle 2 and create a female ponytail. I also added little stud earrings to further distinguish as a girl character.

Is there anything that can be done about the pants? No worries if not, I just wanted to check in case I can further push this to obvious girl status.

Again, I am sorry—I find the template to be extremely useful and hope you continue creating awesome stuff!

Apology excepted and thank your for all your kind words. Not sure wether it’s the best character offering here on VH since this was one of the first and many have come since, but still thank your very much for saying so.

Great to hear you’ve succeeded in making your character more female.

Well in the beginning stages of creating this template I was determined to add in a skirt but somehow I never succeeded. Then later on with the template getting bigger and bigger, it would take a lot of effort to add a skirt option with having 13 different character creators, meaning I had to do any changes to the template 12 times over.

Somehow when working with the puppet tool, the skirt would never follow the legs perfectly and end up with strange folds and digital artifacts. So it would mean that I had to restrict the leg movement in order for it to work and that was not something that was beneficial for the rest of the template. Or I could start from scratch with the torso and legs and redo all the puppet tools and relink them to all the bone nulls (something that would take a lot of time for just one added feature and that for all 13 characters). So I guess I’ve just been to busy and maybe to reluctant on that part, which is entirely my fault.

Now with that being said you could still increase the Mesh Expansion of the compositions such as: Torso, Left Leg and Right Leg. This allows you to further extend or change the shape of the pants (inside these compositions) , giving you the possibility to change its appearance. Hope this helps.

Hi and thanks for your purchase.

While this is not necessarily a feature within this template, you still can go inside the “Head” composition of each Character Creator comp and change the mouth shapes manually when editing the shape layers.

Send me an email if you need a more detailed description on how to do this and I’ll reply as soon as possible.

Cool, will check that out…

Another thing, I know the character is a 2D character, but I want to show that he is looking up at the sky, can I do that too ? Please tell me how…

Thanks for your help !

Well you could tilt the head with the rotation value of the HEAD null and make it so that he looks up.

Now the only thing you have to do is custom edit the shape layer of the eyes, mouth and ears again to make it seem as if he looks up.

Hi there! Please check your email.

Thanks!

in few minuets I will send you an e-mail

I have sent you email through your profile page

Replied with a solution. Let me know if it works!

I just found this on the FAQ:

“Why do I get a “Missing Effects” error? Some users seem unable to install the scripts. While this is not mandatory because the template will still work a full 100%, it will give you an error message on booting up the .aep and that can get annoying. This has happened to only a small amount of users and it usually means that you’re not running AE as an ”Administrator”. On both Windows and Mac OS, you have to be sure that you are running After Effects with all permissions open, meaning that you are running the program as an ”Administrator”. This is a client-side issue and has nothing to do with the project not working, it has to do with the settings of your personal Windows or Mac OS.”

I guess I just need to ignore the error box, i’m certainly am runnig AE in administrator but as I’m new on W8, i may have ignored something. Anyway, the templates is actually working fine so I guess it won’t be a problem.

Well you have answered your own question already The template will work fine without installing the scripts. Only thing is the one error message you get when you start the .aep but that is really nothing to worry about.

I’m not sure though anymore whether it has to do with restrictions on an OS. Initially this was my first conclusion and some people confirmed it to me but others are getting the error even if they have all permissions open. Not that it really matters, but it’s still a bit strange.

Hey Naim thanks for your purchase! I’m sorry you feel that way about the assets and I want to apologize for the inconvenience.

The thing is, is that this template was created in mind with dragging and dropping the scenes into the timeline and not with using each unique asset to create entirely new scenes. Although it is possible, it was not the first focus of this template so that is why you may find the assets a bit cluttered.

Again sorry if I gave off the wrong idea.

Hi, no you didn’t give off the wrong idea. It’s a great template. I just have OCD I guess ( everything needs to be tidy lol )