The way this is done is by applying a camera – with full control over zoom factor, etc – and by using Z-layers to place elements forward or backward in relation to others. Now, CrazyTalk Animator 3 may be called a 2D animation app, but the animations you create can be made to appear in a 3D environment. This allows you to create motion from 2D photos, resulting in smooth facial animations and talking expressions by morphing the images, but there’s always a limit to the amount of elasticity before it starts looking unnatural. A morph-based head uses a projection of a face image onto a surface with the dimensional and protruding shape of a face. For example, a head that is composed of sprites of a face and different facial features lets you move all those features independently. Sprite-based animations look more cartoonish but allow for more “natural” expressions of motion. The Paddington bear PNG relied on morphing. Sprites, by the way, is the second animation method within the app. Then, by importing the layered result into CrazyTalk Animator 3, the artwork’s layers are translated into sprites and you can start animating. The round-trip PSD pipeline lets you create characters of which you put the moving parts on different layers. My review version – Pipeline – provided me with a fully functional PSD in-and-out solution that allows you to keep using your familiar design environment for character creation and animated content development. The result is that you can create almost any animation from static elements. That is all good and well, but it doesn’t even scratch the surface of this 2D animation tool.ĬrazyTalk Animator 3 comes with 2D character templates and character motion libraries – you may call them ready-made animation components – which you can combine with 2D bone rigs, facial puppets and – a feature that allows you to create tutorials as much as hilarious cartoons – audio lip-syncing tools. The image originally had a white background, but by removing it and then importing it into CrazyTalk Animator 3, I could control its extremities and head. I tried this with a PNG image of a Paddington bear stuffed animal. With CrazyTalk Animator 3, you can bring an image or a piece of vector art into the application and create an animated figure by applying bouncy “Elastic Motion” effects, using “bones”. This, the developer says, is the world’s easiest 2D animation software that enables all levels of users to create professional animations with the least amount of effort, and I agree – up to a point. Animation for anything from presentations to games and goofy Youtube movies is possible with CrazyTalk Animator 3.
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