To launch their new comedy news show hosted by Greg Gutfeld, the producers wanted to create a Character Animator puppet that they could use for live segments. The character would serve as a nerdy, deadpan ombudsman who would fact-check the show’s contributors. Our friends at Adobe gave Fox News our contact info and recommended us for the project.

A revolutionary program that’s won an Emmy, Adobe’s Character Animator software takes your audio and visual inputs, and outputs an animated character in real-time—meaning live—through its lip-syncing and motion-capture technologies, like face-tracking and body-tracking.

The Gutfled! production team would have a comedian behind the camera acting out and saying the character’s lines (or making them up on the fly).  We’ve been working with Adobe for years as beta-testers of Character Animator, which opens up a world of possibilities with its ability to live-stream.

With the show slated to debut two weeks from project kick-off, the Gutfeld! producers wanted the ombudsman character to be a know-it-all with a snooty attitude.