There's no way to make that kind of skirt without manually key framing all the animation to stop it looking bad. Believe me I tried everything to make a skirt that would automatically animate with no cuts in the side. Nothing looked good.

Thanks, I'm glad you found it useful.

Thanks. Yeah, it's not immediately obvious this is how you implement multiple angles of the same G3 when animating complex motions. I don't think the manual even mentions it.

@@animlife That's right. There is no mention of this in the instructions, and I never saw it in any of the instructional videos until this one. Not only how to implement multiple angles, but that you even should, can , or have to do it to get natural looking results. Great job on bringing this up!

It's literally props animated to get smaller to appear like they're moving further away as the character walks on the spot. Maybe I should do a tutorial on it?

@@animlife Please do!

Thanks. I figured showing how to do this was worth doing as a quick mini tutorial after your comment on my previous video.

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Thanks for the feedback. I do say in the video that I'm cheating with how the character opens the door. I literally say I know nobody opens car a door like this. I did it because the lesson is how to take a character and put it inside a car and then animate the two together in Cartoon Animator. It's not how to make a character realistically open a car door. To make the character open the door, even remotely accurately, I would've had to swap the character out with the 90 degree side facing character so he could more realistically use his left hand to open the door, likely adding another 15 minutes to an already long lesson. Maybe you could take up the challenge, follow this tutorial, except make the character in your version open the door more realistically?

thanks for your reply and send me back i am not challengin but do connect with you have a nice day 🥰

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That's an excellent suggestion for a video that I think I'm going to do next. To answer your question, no they aren't done separately. On a basic level you just link your character to the car or horse and, whenever the car or horse move the character will automatically follow. But there are some tricks for how to animate these things - specifically for horses and how to have the character have one leg behind the horse.

Waiting for what?

Glad you found it useful. There's a few things in here you won't find out from the manual and official videos.

Thanks. I hope you found the video useful. 🙂

If you're using a webcam for the motion capture then yes, it's very laggy and hard to get accurate motion capture (not really suitable for live performance either). If you have an iPhone and spend the extra for the iPhone motion capture profile it's far better. I haven't personally tried it since I don't have an iPhone but I've watched someone set up the iphone mocap on their system after having used the webcam version for a while and they were amazed by how much more responsive the iPhone capture was.

@@animlife switched to adobe character animator.

@@maxibi Whatever works for you. If motion capture is important to how you animate you've probably made the right move. Cartoon Animator isn't quite there yet with motion capture.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks. I appreciate the detailed feedback. I do try to focus on actual challenges people face when using the software, or things people may not have thought about to differentiate myself from other CTA channels.

@@animlife Of other CTA youtube channel users, you are one of the best. Thanks for your support and knowledge.

You're welcome. Gave me an excuse to finally use my axe prop with my knight character.

Some of those things I cover in my paid courses, such as how to add AI voices, how to add actions to a character, how to add effects in post to your animation etc. Some of that I also already have videos on, on my channel... and I've covered making characters using AI realtime canvas in my Animation and Video Life Blog. Check out my courses at thelazyanimator.com Here on this channel I aim to make quick tutorials that hopefully are useful and are not things that have been covered extensively before. Though I will take your suggestions on board. For example I am currently considering a free tutorial for this channel on using an AI image generator to design Anime characters and then showing how to quickly rig those characters in Cartoon Animator. As for bone binding in CTA... CTA doesn't really have that feature. The closest it gets is the ability to fine tune a wire frame structure that surrounds each sprite that is attached to a bone.

@@animlife I'm glad to hear this. When you create content, you can share various knowledge points in the form of cases, such as the similar character design of a popular animation, or the actions of a popular animation, and how special effects creation is achieved. At the same time, you will also have more opportunities for commercial cooperation. Selling courses is just one of your profit models.

@@shouyouo Thanks, I'll keep those suggestions in mind. Selling Cartoon Animator 5 courses is my main focus. This channel is here to support that. I have no interest in chasing the KZbin algorithm, or doing collaborations etc. ...just quietly, I don't actually watch much modern, or current animation and have zero interest trying to animate in those styles. I'm more about teaching people how Cartoon Animator works so they can animate their own stories/projects etc.

You're welcome.

Thanks, glad I could make something of use to you.

Thanks, glad you like it.

Glad my video could help. Feel free to ask Cartoon Animator questions on my videos if you are stuck. I may be able to help and you may give me an idea for a video.

I'm glad my video could help you out.

Honestly, I have no idea. It was in GoAnimate's library when this was made.

Hi, I don't really understand the question you're asking? Could you perhaps give me a little more information and I'll do my best to give you an answer.

Thank you. I will ask next time .. sorry to make you confuse

The character was created using Krea.ai 's Realtime generator (img2img) where you draw and prompt for a character at the same time (there's a recent post in my animationandvideo.com blog showing the process but with Leonardo.ai's realtime canvas). After that I took the character image and rigged it in CTA and Krita using my one sprite rigging method. To add the hair with spring bones to a morph based head you have to add it to the character head as an accessory.

@@animlife thank you so much for your Answer.. wish you all the best and please keep up the great work you doong with CTA5

I'm going to assume your making G3 characters not G2 because G2's a whole other nightmare. With G3 characters the eyes and mouths have a very specific folder structure in the template that you have to stick to. Even a spelling mistake on the folder names will break the template. If you're trying to make a character template from scratch and not using an official template, you at least need to have an official template open so you can compare the folder structure to what you have. Mouth sprites are easy enough. The sprites can have any name you like but the folder structure must be exactly named as the official template. Eyes generally have three sprites, the pupil only, they eye sprite itself with eyelid but no pupils just eye white, and then a mask that is white and is the shape of whatever eye white is showing in the eye sprite. Again all these sprites MUST be in the exact folder structure used in the official templates. Note that if your main eye sprite is a closed eye then that eye will not need a pupil or eye white mask sprite (but the folders for them should still be present). Unfortunately I don't have a video on this but I do show how to make a G3-360 PSD head in one of my paid tutorials. The folder structure is very similar to SVG characters.

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Glad you found the information useful. With your question you could probably just create a path for the object using the path tool. Easier than pasting a bunch of key frames, and paths can be edited and saved easily as well.

@@animlife I tried doing it the way you said and it really worked. Thanks a lot! 💜

@@katiatargaryen516 Glad I could help.

You realize neither of these sites even exist as they were anymore, right? (yes I know about Vyond and I have Wrapper Offline)... Xtranormal is pay walled these days.

Glad you found this video useful. I'm actually quite surprised that this video seems to have filled a much needed gap in learning CTA5, becoming one of my most watched in a short space of time. With specific product packages - particularly those created by Reallusion themselves - it's always a good idea to really read the product page in the Content Store. Dynamic Character designer does have a Quick start guide link to a document explaining how things work but it's right down the bottom of the page and easily missed.

Thanks. I'm really focused on trying to get complete beginners up and running quickly with Cartoon Animator. My latest course, The Lazy Animator Guide to Animating Talking Heads is for Cartoon Animator 5, and is targeted at complete beginners to intermediate animators. It'll teach you the basics of using all the character animation tools in the software (including some body animation not just faces and heads). It also teaches the entire workflow from writing a script to adding additional effects in a video editor. You can either buy the course on its own or as part of a bundle that includes a tutorial on how to cartoonify yourself as a character in Cartoon Animator. For the bundle go straight to my store at store.arttimeproductions.com

Thank you. I'm very glad you're finding my videos useful. My goal is to always be providing useful hints and tips that may not be so straight forward to discover from the official tutorials. I do have longer, low cost paid, Cartoon Animator courses at my Lazy Animator website. While a lot are still for version 4 the information in them is still relevant to version 5. thelazyanimator.com

This video is really intended to showcase how much more you can do with characters inside the composer without needing any advanced skills. It would be great if you could change the outfits etc. too but I suspect that would make characters even more complex to make from scratch.

Personally I haven't really animated characters with long skirts to have worked out any methods. However Garry Pye, who you may be familiar with as a very prolific character designer, has a video (kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHSueIqmnsR6d6M) going into detail on how to animate his Jane Danger character who has a long skirt. You may find it useful.

Thank you very much for your answer. I hope your channel will continue to improve. Thank you@@animlife