I just purchased CTA2 and it's totally useless, someone said you need to have to wait for the upgrade! Well that's really sweet! Why put it out when it's not ready?

I have to agree with flatcap as well.

I bought CTA1 about a year ago, and also bought some training videos, and spend many weeks and couldn't figure out sqat about CTA1 so I gave up in frustration. I too find that the (paid for!) videos fly by at 100 miles and hour and skip most of what he is doing and only show the results, so I couldn't follow what he was doing or figure out anything. I just bought CTA2 thinking from what I had heard that it was vastly improved, but sadly, it is just as frustrating! The manual help files are useless to me, they seem to assume you are familiar with the program, and I can't figure out how to do the simplest of things at all! It is so frustrating. I use anime studio 9 pro successfully, as well as carrara 8 and daz studio, no problems.

For example, I am trying to figure out how to move a character's start position. Whenever I click on the character to move it, it moves the bounding box but not the character. I am at the first keyframe. Of course if I advance the playhead, it will move that character. But I am trying to reposition the character at the start. If someone could please explain to me how to do this, I would be grateful.

And of course I gave up trying to use my own content a long time ago, and I still can't figure out whatever steps are needed to do this.

I would appreciate it if reallusion would make help files or video tutorials that back off from the hyped sales pitch and "wow, aren't these features great" and make some help material that is of more use to anyone except psychics and polymaths.

Sorry if this offends. Just being honest.

Crazy Talk Animator is a fun program to work with, getting even better with the upcoming version 2.

There are some great assets to use, if you have the dosh to spend. Though some of it seems to have jagged edges even with anti-alias on. I haven't made a movie to see whether that is still the case.

Thank you for the feedback.

Unfortunately there has to be some differences between the Standard and Pro versions to compensate for the price difference. However we always make this clear in our version comparisons so the user knows which Pro features are not present in the Standard versions.

The CrazyTalk Animator comparison is below:

http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/animator/animator_matrix.aspx

                                                                

Peter
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www.reallusion.com

Hi, I'm new here; just to add to the point about the standard version being "crippled":
How annoying to find that Cut & Paste, features which you'd expect as standard in any self-respecting graphics editing software, are only available on the Timeline in the Pro version!! Which means that, unless there's another way around the problem, I have to enter all repetitive Timeline events individually! :(
Also, the fact that an external editor should be needed to create substitutes for actors' body parts - but that's a lesser gripe.

Love CTA!!

We've been working hard with this great software!

We hope to be able to share with you some our creations very soon :)

Our best to all :)!!

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Hi..

CrazyTalk Animator does not contain CrazyTalk 7. These are two separate products. You do not need CT7 to be able to use CTA.

I'm sorry to hear you feel annoyed about the Makeup Pack being a separate purchase for FF3. Releasing content packs for our titles is normal practise for all our products.

Please do remember that if you have any concerns about a purchase you made, please contact Customer Support using the link below. They will certainly try to help you resolve any issues.

http://www.reallusion.com/CustomerSupport/User/QForm.aspx

                                                                

Peter
Forum Administrator

www.reallusion.com

Does the current release version of CT animator contain the CT7?

If no, when will it release?

All the specials for CTA look good, but if I have to turn around and buy CT7 I will be disappointed.

I was annoyed as heck to realize when I bought the FaceFilter3 to find there is another add on to it that is $50 more. I really felt deceived when there is constant hipe about new products soon to be released and the MakeUp Pro thing wasn't mentioned until FF3 was released. Yeah I got some kind of bonus, but I would have waited otherwise.

Doing business in such a sneaky fashion like that without sharing the whole story is lousy.

Especially, when I finally get the FF3 and find there is already another addin for it, never mentioned. Really SUX.

CTA is a great product as long as you don't plan to take it to a professional level. As long as you are doing animations for friends and family, it's all good. In fact, it's great. But once you need CTA to step up to the professional level, your honeymoon with CTA will be over in a jiffy!

We have been battling CTA bugs for over a year, and CTA has NOT delivered the type of support that compensates for their poor programming and management.

We truly regret being fooled by CTA. We thought this product was serious, but it is not. It's not ready for prime time, it's not ready for anything outside amateur hour.

I wish we had better things to say, but we can't....CTA has been a total waste of our time and resources.

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Hi..

Have you cheked out the many video tutorials below, covering all aspects of CrazyTalk Animator. These should certainly get you started on creating your own animations.

http://www.youtube.com/user/CrazyTalkTutorial

                                                                

Peter
Forum Administrator

www.reallusion.com