Then move on to finish relocating the rest of the joints on torso and hand parts. Make sure the all end joints are close to the end of the image sprites. Move the baselines (shown here in red and blue) close to feet, and at this point hide the hips and hand so you can focus on the arm and leg parts. Edit your jointsįocusing on the head part, and again following the CTA3 template, relocate the labels and joints into the right positions.
Then delete the dummy and rearrange layers by relocating the hand and feet folders on top of the arm and thigh folders, respectively. Carefully place body parts into the right template folder. Make sure your character's hips are located in the same position as the dummy hip. This is simple to do if you follow the PSD template provided for CrazyTalk Animator 3 Pipeline. In order to animate the character, we need to locate all the bone joints. I tend to use Adobe Illustrator for tasks like these. We need him to have 10 parts to work in CTA3, so I edited the design as shown in the image above. My original character – which comes from Shutterstock – has six body parts. The first step is to modify your character designs so they'll work with the CTA3 format. I like creating 2D characters in a traditional flat design as it gives me more leeway for quick changes, but these techniques can be adjusted and applied to any style of character. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to animate a character with CrazyTalk Animator 3. In five hours, I can create a whole family of characters based on one initial character.
Photoshop Creative ranked the tool 8 out of 10, commenting: ”Overall CTA3 is a very good tool to create nice, smooth two dimensional animations…”
The results look professional and it saves loads of time compared to other animation methods. You can start with a PSD design, make a few quick modifications so it fits the CTA format, and bring it to life quickly and easily. Recently, I discovered CrazyTalk Animator 3, and even though I don't have a background in animation, I found it easy to use to animate my characters. Four years ago I taught myself to create vector art in Adobe Illustrator, and became a vector contributor for micro-stock agencies like Shutterstock, Adobe Stock, 123RF and Vectorstock.
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