Hi...
There are two ways to make an animated custom character for CTA5.
The first is to make a Standard G3 Character. The benefits of this are that you can then use any of the included pre-made animations to animate your character as it will contain a standard bone structure. To see how this is done in the fewest of steps, please check out the tutorial
HERE.
The second method is to create a FreeBone character. FreeBone characters are easier to create because you don't have to break the characer into parts. They are also more suited to non-bipedal characters (don't have two arms, two legs). Animating FreeBone characters is done by setting keyframes on the timeline. You can find a tutorial on creating a basic FreeBone character
HERE.
Peter
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