G2 or G3? What character type should you use in Cartoon Animator?

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When using Cartoon Animator you have 2 different types of characters you can use - G2 and G3 characters.
The question is, what is the difference between the two, and which one should you use for your animation projects?
Well, in this video I discuss the differences and share my thoughts on which one to use.
#2DAnimation #AnimationForBeginners #StartAnimating #howtoanimate

[@thomasduval7185]

The G2 Characters are great, but very labor intensive. Two hundred mouth sprites is an awsome task. Toon Titan Puppet Producer (by Ibis Fernandez) program helped with the rigging issues. A program that used shareware like Krita to generate the Flash file and automate the process would help. The artificial intelligence in Character Creator and / or Blender that would help generate mouth and other sprites would also help revive the G2 character. Also an in depth book that fully explained the Flash Svmbol concepts for producing G2 Characters would greatly help neophytes to learn how to make the characters. Many start learning and simply give up.

[@PratishMistry]

Planning on using both G2 and G3 for exactly the reasons mentioned ;) Mark Diaz, by the way, was designing a course he claims will allow doing full 360 body rotations using G3 characters so something to keep an eye on

[@jamesrosewell9081]

Do you know whatever happened with that course? I'd love to have full body rotations in CTA

[@SaffireAnimation]

Amazing tutorial! Do we know if CTA is going to release 360 degree full body creation in upcoming CTA 5 version?

[@sarfrazqasim]

Hello Eon Thank you for creating such a useful video. I guess Reallusion has discontinued G2 characters in CTA5. Please correct me if I am wrong. I also want to know what are the disadvantages or shortcomings you have faced to create your animated series while using Cartoon Animator and you wish they must include it in their upcoming updates? Thanks

[@DirkBaeten]

You can stil import them and use them.

[@RajeshKchennai]

I wud stick with G3 especially as cta5 doesn't support g2. However I like the concept of using both g2 and g3, especially when minimum customization is required.

[@DirkBaeten]

You can still import them and use them.

[@DirkBaeten]

G2's react better to iClone's 3d motions than G3's. End of story. G2's can be embedded with swf (vector) animations that can be switched on and off without the need to import a png sequence. (Those can be cloth and hair movement and if needed, you can combine G3 heads and bone hands with G2 characters. If you only use 2d motions or make up your own motions you will not be forced to make all angles and just work with one. I can go on ranting like this but in the end Reallusion made sure with every update that people don't give a crap anymore about G2's. You can still use them in CA5 but you have to import them and save them under custom characters. You can also use springbones on G2's that react to 3d motions covering all angles, but you will not find a mention of that in the manual.I agree though that the creation of G2's is not for the faint hearted and certainly not for someone who is starting out with Cartoon Animator. Edit: you forgot to mention that G2's face depth can be set in composer mode from 1 to 9 with at 9 gives a fair rotation of the head, almost the same compared to the 360 head movement of the G3 characters.

[@jamesrosewell9081]

It seems like a downgrade to go to G3

[@WhoMichaelWho]

I have always preferred G2. Most G3 people characters look terrible but the animals look quite good. What is with the red nose on G3 characters?

[@ibraattala5753]

any tutorial to make g3 360 caracter ?

[@startanimating695]

Hi. I will do a tutorial in a future live stream. Will do it on the 23rd of January. Thanks for giving me an idea for a live stream.. Hope to see you there.

[@HeinleinShinobu]

G2 seems better to me, so much more versatile compare to G3