Hi,

I hope somebody can help me please. I am new to Crazy Talk Animator and although I have found it reasonably easy to find my way around I am have become stuck on one particular thing.
After I have created a character and added motions, animation etc I need to be able to save it and slot it into other projects.
The problem that I am finding is that I can only save it as a project but of course Crazy Talk will not allow me to paste it from that saved project into a new one. If I save it as a character it saves only the character but not the animations. I'm sure there must be an easy way of doing this but having spent a long time trying to find I thought I would ask the question.
I hope you can help.

Hi Alan and welcome.

CTA does not allow you to save a character with animations from a project time line as it were.
You can save the characters animations, either as one or many different ones as motion clips.
Then you can add that motion clip to the characters action menu to apply as needed.
The action menu items are saved with the character so you can copy the character to other projects and reference the same Actions for that character.
Keep in mind that the Action items point to clips that, I believe, are saved separately from the character in the custom folder.

For defining and creating clips and actions see the Help under:
Animations | Character Animations - Body Animations | Utilizing the Action Menu for Motions


Hope that helps.

Jeff


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Hi Jeff,
Thank you for your very helpful reply. The solution is not ideal for my needs by any means but I guess I'll just have to work it that way.
I do thank you for taking the trouble to reply.
Alan H.