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Hi, Cartoon Animators

Cartoon Animator (CTA) is all about providing an easy and creative solution that empowers
all skill level users to animate. Reallusion is grateful and proud that CTA has positioned itself
among leading animation tools. Let’s take a brief look back at 2019 to see the milestones you
had joined CTA with.



2019 Recap

• April of 2019, CTA 4 launched and change the name from CrazyTalk Animator to Cartoon Animator.
• CTA 4 debuted 2D webcam facial mocap, simplifying the most difficult part of character animation by projecting your facial expressions onto your virtual characters.
• July, CTA annual contest "Animation At Work". 
• Joined by over 170 users with 270 submitted videos. We had more creativity and skill in a single contest, than ever before.
• September, the draw to animate pipeline.
• While the contest was still running, we launched PSD Roundtrip Editing giving everyone with the ability to draw, to now animate. At the same time, Reallusion partnered with Photopea to provide a free image editor for all users.

Non of these would happen without your support for CTA!

Before all the new features, Reallusion would like to make an official statement on the
recent posts on the "Cartoon Animator Users FB group" regarding CTA's performance.
We are looking into it right now.



What's new in 2020?

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• Hand and Body Mocap
• The Motion LIVE 2D plugin will make CTA the only 2D animation software that can capture the motions of your fingers, hands and body. Additionally, all mocap results can be easily edited. This will save humongous production time. With the existing facial mocap, a performer can animate an entire character including face, fingers, limbs and body which is perfect for quick production, interactive show and live performance.  

• After Effects Plugin
• Since the most animators choose Adobe After Effects for post production. Reallusion decided to combine CTA's speedy character animating system with AE's vast library of special effects to simplify the animation process. By bringing layers of sprite from CTA to AE, users can perfect every element in post production while preserving all animation keys. For users without AE, they can select and group animation assets and export as sequence images then edit in other video production software.

• 3D Motion Plugin
• Reallusion will break the boundary between 3D and 2D by making the world of 3D motions for CTA to use. With this plugin, any 3D human motions can be easily converted and applied on CTA characters. Besides double the value of the 3D motions you already have, this also enriches your CTA motion library with unlimited possibility.

• Smart Gallery, an intelligent way to manage your assets. Know More about Smart Gallery

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