IK Rigs are the bone structure used to animate 2d characters in Cartoon Animator. Cartoon AnimatorвЂ™s Motion Retargeting System can easily adapt the blue monkeyвЂ™s limbs so they match the rungs on the ladder.

These characters are using the same motion file to climb a ladder. Being able to scale a motion file, with Cartoon AnimatorвЂ™s retargeting tool to fit the proportions of any character, simply by adjusting a few sliders, is a huge time saver, doing away with, potentially, hours of key frame adjustments. In my own work, I save character motion files all the time and may use them with different characters in multiple projects. Retargeting allows you to scale the motion so it works as intended for characters of all sizes. However this doesnвЂ™t always produce the desired results when characters are of a different proportion to what a particular motion was designed for. One of CrazyTalk AnimatorвЂ™s key time saving features is the ability to create and save motion files for reuse with many different characters. CrazyTalk Animator 3вЂ™s IK constraints checkbox is expanded with more options in Cartoon Animator 4.

For my own work this feature alone will make it even easier to create custom cartoon squash-&-stretch style motions, and to properly anchor a character within their environment for more realistic interaction. It also gives you options to stretch limbs while they are being constrained.Д¬razyTalk Animator 3 already has IK constraints in a very limited way (as a single checkbox on the 2d Character Motion Editor), Cartoon Animator expands this into an entire graphical user interface with more constraint options. The general process involves locking character limbs such as hands and feet into place, constraining the rest of the character rig to movement based upon which limbs have been locked. Smart Inverse Kinematic/Forward Kinematic SystemД¬artoon Animator 4 includes a new Inverse Kinetic/Forward Kinetic Graphical User Interface that specifically makes it easier to get your characters realistically interacting with their environments.

These features will be a real benefit in making the process of character animation much easier. CrazyTalk Animator 3 makes character animation easy with its G3 range of character rigs that can be imported directly from artwork created using Photoshop character templates.Д¬artoon Animator 4 will have all of the features of CrazyTalk Animator 3 as well as bringing plenty of new tools that will make classic cartoon style character animation so much easier and even more intuitive. However my real passion is character animation, specifically seeing my own cartoon characters come alive.

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