Adobe Character Animator is an amazing addition to Creative Cloud with a great concept in mind. To help you make your own amazing animations without the specialist skillset for animating. All it takes is to import a puppet character and start controlling it through facial expression, lip-synch and button actions. Last time we prepared an in-depth review on where to start with Adobe Character Animator. With it, we included free puppets to start with. Today, we’ll continue the topic with a collection of editable vector-based backgrounds to suit your puppets and give an atmosphere to your videos. These 40 hand-picked Character Animator backgrounds (free and premium) are separated into categories, depending on what your puppet character needs. So, as usual, you can use the overview below to fast-travel to a particular section of your choice.
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Article overview:
1. Interior Backgrounds
2. School Backgrounds
3. City Landscape Backgrounds
4. Nature Backgrounds
Interior Backgrounds
In this section, we have prepared a lot of good stuff for your puppets. Along with the stand-alone interior backgrounds, we have also included vector backgrounds collections and creation kits by GraphicMama. The collections feature scenes with rooms, offices, kitchens, conference rooms, kids’ rooms, fitness, bathrooms, and more. The creation kits (makers), on the other hand, include pre-made backgrounds and elements to create your own designs.
1. Free Small Kid’s Room Background
Equipped with a basketball, telescope, cars, and lovely posters, this is a lovely background for a small child character.
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2. Animated Background Scenes for Character Animator
These backgrounds were created specifically for Adobe Character Animator. They are 6 premade dynamic scenes. They come as .chproj files. All of them have animated triggers, so you could start or stop different animations in your background with just one click.
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3. Kitchen Interior Vector Backgrounds
This creation kit includes 25 pre-made vector kitchen graphics. You can mix and match the individual elements from the 25 stylish vector illustrations and create your own unique look. The kit comes with different tables, chairs, kitchen appliances, jars, and pots.
Go To Download4. Kid’s Room Vector Backgrounds
The maker includes vector items and 25 pre-made kids’ room backgrounds. You can make your own illustration of exactly how you imagine the rooms of your characters. The kit comes with different kinds of toys, furniture, wallpapers, carpets, and much more.
Go To Download5. 10 Free Cartoon Room Backgrounds
A collection of 120 room background graphics. This bundle is perfect for web and graphic designers or non-professionals to impress the audience with a fresh, and modern look. The collection has presentation rooms, offices, rooms with whiteboards, home office backgrounds, kitchens, conference rooms, kids’ rooms, fitness, bathrooms, medical rooms, and more. It also includes 10 completely free backgrounds that are perfect for Character Animator.
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6. 25 Cartoon Office Backgrounds
This room builder can be used to create awesome office backgrounds. Ideal for your illustrations, web designs, animations, presentations, and more. It includes 100+ Office Items to create your scenes.
Go To Download7. Modern Living Room Backgrounds
A creation kit including plenty of living room item vector graphics. It also packs 25 pre-made vector living room backgrounds. The kit comes with different kinds of artworks, furniture, lighting fixtures, and plants. Includes a high-quality 1 free living room background for you to try out.
Go To Download8. Free Cartoon Bedroom
A sunny bedroom scene with classy interior items, suitable for a young adult character.
Go To Download9. Free Bus Interior Background
Very high-quality free graphic background for scenes with characters traveling by bus.
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A dark room with high-tech equipment. It’s suitable for characters who are teenagers, students, and developers.
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School Backgrounds
In our first category, we’ve gathered 12 colorful backgrounds, ideal for school, kindergarten, and college scenes. No matter if your character is a kid, a teenager, a college student, or a teacher. These detailed classrooms, corridors, exteriors, and libraries have something for everyone.
11. Free Kindergarten Room Background
A free background resource with colorful elements, suitable for kids’ rooms or a kindergarten classroom.
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12. Free School Building Background
This vector is a free background with a school building near the road. It’s perfect for scenes where characters just arrive or leave school.
Go To Download13. Free Cartoon School Building
Suburbian school building with beautiful trees and a pond. It’s great for characters who study outside of the city or in a small village.
Go To Download14. Free Chemistry Classroom Background
This free background offers a chemistry classroom with laboratory equipment and chemical formulas on the blackboard.
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15. Free School Hallway Illustration
The free background shows a simple school hallway with a window and classroom doors.
Go To Download16. Free Math Class Background
This is the perfect background for students or teacher characters during a math class.
Go To Download17. Free School Lockers Background
This high-quality background with lockers can work for high- school, kindergarten, or college corridor scenes.
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18. Free Cartoon Kindergarden Room
Another colorful vector background for kindergarden scenes.
Go To Download19. Free High-School Illustration
A scene with a school or college building with a small fence.
Go To Download20. Free Library Background
A high-quality library scene with shelves, tomes, and a librarian’s wooden desk.
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21. Cartoon Classroom Background
Here we have an empty classroom with quality graphics, perfect for videos.
Go To Download22. Free Elementary School Room Background
Math class vector background for pre-and elementary school puppets.
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City Landscape Backgrounds
After the interior background samples, it’s finally time to go outside. Let’s pick some modern city landscapes. These include urban scenes, modern buildings, streets, night city backgrounds, post-apocalyptic aesthetics, and even a lovely medieval village, because why not.
23. 12 Free Colorful Landscape Backgrounds
A huge collection of 241 vector landscape backgrounds made in a cool flat style. Includes 12 free city and nature landscapes for you to try out.
24. Free Urban and Nature Landscape
This panoramic landscape has an interesting concept that it shows quite literally. It might be ideal for specific environmental projects. Or even ones related to traveling. Everywhere your puppet character needs to be.
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25. Free City Traffic Lights Bg
This background shows city crossroads with traffic lights intersection that can be used for multiple purposes.
Go To Download26. Public Park Background
With a lovely flat vector style, this public park background is also suitable for multiple concepts and projects.
Go To Download27. Free Night City Neon Lights Background
This breath-taking background shines with everyone’s favorite for a reason retro-futuristic 80s style with neon colors. It’s simply stunning and will look great on night scenes. For example, if your office puppet character goes home after work, or goes to a party, and many more.
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28. Free Modern Metropolis Background
A similar to the previous scene background. A very high-quality neon retro-futuristic metropolis.
Go To Download29. Free Night Avenue Lights Illustration
Flat style avenue with modern buildings, a road, and a lamp post. For multiple purposes.
Go To Download30. Free Colorful Night City Background
A nightlife city background where nobody sleeps. In case your character doesn’t either.
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32. Free Cartoon City Landscape
A small town with beautiful colorful houses and shops.
Go To Download33. Free Medieval Town Background
An old European-looking street with medieval houses. Good for projects related to history, tourism, and education. Or LARP.
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36. Free Post-Apocalypse Background
A city destroyed in a war, in a dystopian world. This post-apocalyptic scenery suits very specific related projects.
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37. Free Nuclear Explosion Illustration
Mushroom cloud taking over the city in an apocalyptic background.
Go To Download38. Free Bomb Explosion Background
The last post-apocalyptic scene with an already ruined city.
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Nature Backgrounds
To have a good break from the dystopian genre, let’s jump into some fresh beautiful nature sceneries.
39. Free Carnival Landscape
Background theme with a colorful carnival. It brings athmosphere to puppet characters in festive scenes.
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40. Free Desert Road background
A cartoon landscape of barren desert with a car on the highway that rides along the canyon.
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For characters with diving suits and mermaids. Or every puppet that needs to be underwater.
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A stunning alien landscape. Ideal for specific projects related to science, SciFi, and similar.
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43. Free Green Outdoor Background
Gorgeous green landscape. Nothing more, nothing less.
Go To Download44. Free Steaming Volcanoes Background
A lovely volcano island scenery where things get hot quite literally.
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This log bridge between two mountain cliffs and a waterfall in the background brings an adventurous atmosphere.
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46. Free Nature Park Illustration
A classic nature reserve park with a pond and tall pines. It’s ready to invite some camping puppet characters.
Go To Download47. Free Mountanin Landscape
And here’s our last vector background for this selection. A lovely peaceful mountain landscape with a road.
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Final Words
This was all for today’s examples and samples of free and premium Character Animator backgrounds. The files come in EPS. You can edit or animate later. As usual, when it comes to the free graphics, keep in mind that some might be for personal use only. While others might be both for personal and commercial use. I hope we inspired you to create great videos with your puppet characters.
In the meantime, you can also expand your resources for Character Animator puppets with our free mouth shape sets that will give voice to your characters and bring them to life.
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