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Kelleytoons
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Kelleytoons
Posted 6 Years Ago
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Last Active: 2 Years Ago
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As someone well-versed in 2D animation (including having a show optioned by Fox Animation to be on-air) I find the rigging in CTA to be both cumbersome and not very well-explained. So I understand your sorrow. It is anything but intuitive and only by going through a LOT of tutorials, both video and PDFs, have I come to an understanding of it (and those tutorials are, for the most part, not very well done. I'm still not quite sure if it's because the rigging is that complicated or because the teacher is not competent. I'll know for sure because I'm going to create my own tutorials for my granddaughter who wants to learn animation). My advice is to keep at it and take VERY small steps -- deconstruct one of the existing rigs, watch as many online tutorials as you can, and eventually it will become clear. Or not -- honestly, given how much experience I have (decades worth) I'm not sure if others can just pick this up without spending a lot of extra $$$.
Alienware Aurora R16, Win 11, i9-149000KF, 3.20GHz CPU, 64GB RAM, RTX 4090 (24GB), Samsung 870 Pro 8TB, Gen3 MVNe M-2 SSD, 4TBx2, 39" Alienware Widescreen Monitor
Mike "ex-genius" Kelley
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monkeyjediflame
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monkeyjediflame
Posted 6 Years Ago
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Last Active: 5 Years Ago
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Thanks, I have found that the manuals suck, and the videos are often pretty good. If they're not good, they're just missing one crucial element. Anyway, I animated the seesaw in the timeline just by changing the R (rotate) value. That's good enough. I've been making my videos in Powerpoint and using CTA for simple animations and for lip syncing. I may also use Explaindio, Video Robot, and other tools. Next CTA 4 adventure is to finish cartoonifying myself as a character and getting the 360 head rotation with sprite replacement down. That's been rough.
This one was fun.
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