The amount of detailed elements for the basic Mr Bean rig (think 1553 mouth shapes, 777 hand shapes, and 96 head shapes) was reduced to a more manageable number that could be brought together into a single Adobe Illustrator document. The first step to prepare Mr Bean for his livestream was to simplify the animation.

Illustrator CC was used to create the various hand shapes used in the charades game. With these design challenges, the team turned to a game of charades to interact with the audience. They needed to keep the quality of the animation as faithful to the Mr Bean character as possible but also animate Mr Bean on the fly, without a script, with millions of fans watching live. With this is mind, the Mr Bean designers knew they had a challenging task ahead of them. Instead, he is known for his over-exaggerated body movements and facial expressions. He isn’t famous for long-winded conversation. The animated Mr Bean is quirky, but highly detailed. New technologies, like Adobe Character Animator, are making it possible to animate faster than ever before, but that certainly doesn’t mean animation is an easy task. Recently, the team behind Mr Bean at Endemol Shine Group, worked with Adobe and the Adobe Character Animator CC (Beta) team to enable for the first time the animated Mr Bean to have ever interacted live with his fans.Īnimation technology has come a long way from hand drawn sketches.

Following the successful live action comedy series in 2001, Mr Bean launched a classic animated series and is currently the largest TV entertainment brand on Facebook with over 70 million fans. The hapless hero Mr Bean has made us laugh for 27 years. Mr Bean Live: How An Animated Classic Tackled Facebook Live

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