New Whitepapers and Developer Guides For CTA. 

Now available from the Developer Center. Find all about

The Specification of a CrazyTalk Animator Character

The Basic Rules for Vector-based CTA Character Design

Defining Color Group for Your Vector-based Actor

Creating Image-based character with Any Image Editor

Making an Actor Suitable for Front & Side Motions

You can find all the Developer Guides HERE.

More developer resources coming soon.

                                                                

Peter
Forum Administrator

www.reallusion.com

Great!

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Igor

Thank you! that is very good

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Is it possible you can provide design files that were created outside of CTA as reference for us to pull apart and compare with our own? I have read through the white papers but can't find the answers I need....

I am having trouble with line weight, I am using are 5 points, rounded and still looking like they are (jagged) compressed once imported into CTA from uncompressed swf. Your files appear to be hand painted and much larger than mine even though I followed the dimensions of 1000x500.

Wich program do you use ?

If you use flash...and you mean vector drawing
For me is the best way drawing with the line Tool ( 2 points ) and if I like more inking look for my outline, I converted the line in fills and then modified it regionally.
Here is a description

http://www.lashf.com/page/drawing/convert_lines_to_fills

and here you can see, 2 points is OK









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Thanks Peter,

The CTA developer whitepaper, this is just what I need to read to better understand how to design and create my own characters for animation with CTA! Also, I'm enjoying my CTA Training DVD

~Wil


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Is ist possible to make for us developer (or me ) a better Mouthshape template .
Like as Cherry Lips. A Guide with "real" Lips to see what this template mean to draw .
For me is the current template to abstract.


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