To All Cartoon Animator Users


This thread will be about the Work In Progress videos of Cartoon Animator 4.2 and Motion LIVE 2D 1.1

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Posted on the 8th of April, 2020

This is the first video for CTA body mocap warm up.
As you can see in this video, the animated character (from Warwick Hays) is not yet moving forward in-time with the performer, but you will see this in action in the next video.

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Posted on the 27th of February, 2020

This is the final video for CTA hand mocap warm up. Then we move on to 2D Body Mocap. 

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Posted on the 29th of January, 2020

After the hands, now we move on to elbows.

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Posted on the 21st of January, 2020

The third video is here for you to comment.

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Posted on the 15th of January, 2020

Time for the second video.




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Posted on the 8th of January, 2020

Check out the first video.


Hope you will like what you see.

BR,
Ola

Looks very promising and it'll be nice to finally use my leap motion for something constructive   Glad I kept it now.    Also glad that with the newer patches for me CTA has become more stable on mac which is too a good thing. I think when these features are added V4 will finally be that leap forward for me  

Happy to help test if ever needed with leap motion testing.   I do wonder if the leap motion could be used to add full body puppeteering to CTA4.  Link finger movement to bones like hands and even feet and then move them around to move limbs around in a 2D space.  Imagine running on the spot with your fingers and watch legs follow the movement etc with a little help from IK.  If finger movement is possible it's def possible to add this in the future with a little creative thinking.  I had my leap since day one (kickstarter) so have had a fair few years experience playing with it.  

Great work on this.  

Hi Ola - this is, of course, good news.  But I'm wondering is we Mac users are going to be disappointed?  Like scribbley3rd, I've had a Leap Controller for many years - but it's been uninstalled for a long time.  When I looked at their site recently, I discovered that while their Windows driver software had reached v4, the Mac equivalent was never developed beyond v2.  In fact, under the "What's Included?" tab, they actually say "Minimum system requirements (desktop): Windows 7+ or Mac OS X 10.7 (note that OSX is no longer formally supported);…".

It would be great if those v2 drivers would support your integration with CA4, but I've been in this game long enough to know not to hold my breath…

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Got my Leap Motion Controller recently and willing to do some Beta testing if needed also.
This looks great and is something I’ve been waiting for besides the Kinect V2 for CTA4.

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Will the Leap Motion Controller be mandatory to control hand's movement?

When I was looking closely at the video ,it showed a Perception Neuron hand option also.

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Very impressive videos, this will take CTA4 to another level.
Hurry up and take my money before my wife spends it on bills,groceries and stuff like that.

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Will this be available for free bone projects also?

Thanks Tim

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when it will be available 

I dare not to say.
Hopefully before June 2020.