I remember watching a seminar several months ago with Mark Diaz.  He mentioned an App in the works that would be a Character Creator version specifically for automating the rigging process and making 2D characters for CTA5.  Is that going to be a reality and is there a "ballpark" time-frame on that?
Or is that just wishful thinking?
As a complete newbie to CTA5... my first thoughts when using the program were... "Wow, this is great.. but man, this is very convoluted."  Like so many different aspects of character creation are haphazardly thrown into this, in addition to past versions of Crazy Talk and older character versions.  I mean, it's powerful... but very confusing.  It'd be nice if all of that were put into it's own App that would create a final, finished Actor that you would just import into your CTA5 inventory.  And then that actor would already function with all the Animation functions in CTA5 - lip sync, 360 head, adding motions, spring bones, hand bones, etc.
I think lots of people who don't want to use the "pipeline" of making perfect template layers in Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel, etc. would love the prospects of a separate App to work in and handle all of that.
Leave the animation to CTA5.  Leave the character creation to the other App.