Hello,
I am a newby so any help, even if its pointing me in the right direction, would help. I am having a problem with my character's eyes with her goggles (see attachment). Do I place her eyes as a new layer on top of the goggles. If I do that then how in the character face creation do I not layout the eyes? How do I then add in the up, down, left, right looking? Thank you in advance for any advice.

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I've not used Cartoon Animator, but I would assume you would have a layer for the face which includes the googles and one for the eyes, and place the eyes behind on the layer behind the face.






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My two cents. Depending on what you plan on doing I see a couple of options. If it's a plain G3 character without head rotation then you could remove/hide the goggles layer first, do all your face fitting without them and then when your eyes are moving the way you want, turn the goggles layer back on. Alternatively you can use goggles as a prop instead of a facial feature and link them to your character in the Stage mode instead. I have done it with things like baseball cap; this way you can easily flip the prop (say replace the goggles with a pair of different glasses) to another one easily, if you wish.

If you use 360 rotation, the prop method won't work very well so your option would be to link goggles layer to the face layer or perhaps the nose in the Composer Mode so they move together and the rest is pretty much as described in the tutorial (http://manual.reallusion.com/Cartoon_Animator_4/ENU/Pipeline/Content/Resources/4.0/03_Actor/Head_Types/Creating_Additional_Facial_Elements.htm).

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The character will be turning her head sholders and body. The 360 rotation looks terrible. So I'm going into the templates and creating sprites. She needs to move from drawing 1 to drawing 2. How should I do this animation?
Should I create two different template files, or do I put both components into the same template file? i.e center and center left? Any suggestions is most apprciated. Thanks

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Hi there,

I would create the character in 2 different angels. This will make it more simple for you.

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