Answers.Body: <p>Adobe Character Animator can do this.  The paid version lets you add your own images, define them as limbs, keyframes for mouth etc, and animate based on keyframes or by using your webcam. It's pretty good.</p>
  <p><a href="https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html</a></p>
  <p>It's included as part of the Adobe creative suite I think.</p>
  <p>If you're confident with After Effects, you could also look at <a href="https://duik.rxlab.guide/Bassel/tutorials.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Duik</a>. It's a free but very complicated &amp; powerful way to animate 2D rigs, using bones and '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_kinematics" rel="nofollow noreferrer">inverse kinematics</a>'</p>
  <p>Example here for lip syncing using Duik:</p>
  <p><div class="youtube-embed"><div>
                  <iframe width="640px" height="395px" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2NxisQ548-c?start=0"></iframe>
              </div></div></p>
  
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Body: <p>I have a 2D character created in the following formats <code>.png</code> and <code>.ai</code>. I would like to animate this character to speak some script, but I can't find any tool that can do it. They all support characters created in their service etc.</p>
  <p>Do you know any tool for this case?</p>
  
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Title: Animating a 2D character to speak
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ThreadText: # Animating a 2D character to speak
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2024-06-06)
  
  I have a 2D character created in the following formats `.png` and `.ai`. I would like to animate this character to speak some script, but I can't find any tool that can do it. They all support characters created in their service etc.
  
  Do you know any tool for this case?
  
  **Tags:** animation
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2024-06-06. Score: 0 | Accepted answer
  
  Adobe Character Animator can do this. The paid version lets you add your own images, define them as limbs, keyframes for mouth etc, and animate based on keyframes or by using your webcam. It's pretty good.
  
  <https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html>
  
  It's included as part of the Adobe creative suite I think.
  
  If you're confident with After Effects, you could also look at [Duik](https://duik.rxlab.guide/Bassel/tutorials.html). It's a free but very complicated & powerful way to animate 2D rigs, using bones and '[inverse kinematics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_kinematics)'
  
  Example here for lip syncing using Duik:
  
  
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