Since its pretty difficult to animate specific movements, maybe more control over body parts like in iClone 5 (Picture 1),more advanced masking or locking body parts sort of how it looks in the Body Key Editor(Picture 2),. Possibly be able to pose and lock limbs and direct record the motions with mouse control.As it stands in the Body Puppeteering Panel(Picture 3)its not enough control.

Of course if we eventually get Kinect support we may not need this.

 

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Thanks for the suggestion. This will  be passed to the CTA team for review.

                                                                

Peter
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Why not have two puppet modes?

Basic as the current CTA puppet controls
And
Advanced as the IClone puppet controls.

It just strikes me that if you keep advancing CrazyTalk, which I thought was supposed to be a kind of 2D version "ease of use" iClone anyway, you'll end up with iClone as a result

I dont know if it equates to the same thing but the cartoon render in iClone pretty much comes across as Crazy talk in alot o f takes anyway.

What ACTUALLY, by definition and discussion (just so that we can see the boundaries)...... what ACTUALLY defines Crazy talk from iClone.

What actually as a paramount law of differentiation, segregates CrazyTalk output from iClone output on the theoretical table of each programs evolutionary goal? because its starting to get this fuzzy grey area of non-definitive square wheel chasing the round in my mind and unless they both become round... why have two?

Armstrong.

Advancing CTA is not in my opinion like iclone,it depends on what you need the programs for,me I love CTA because its easy to make characters and props from Google images etc but what I need is advanced dance movements which is
impossible with the tools we have now.

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