RayR10 (7/20/2023)
Ok... so Mark Diaz and that other cool guy that never gives his name out, and wears his headphones over his forehead... JUST said at the end of the brand spankin' new, one day old Webinar... Create Motion Comics Fast using Cartoon Animation at time signature 1:20:30... Character Creator for CTA5... that they are planning this and it's in the works.. but not planned for this year... but it is in development..
I think you're misunderstanding what they said was in the works. They were talking about a system that would allow you to rig a 2D character body so that you can turn it from front to side view... something along similar lines to how the current G3 360 head feature works but for the character body. That's not the same as a 2D character creator being in development.
Right now if you want to create your own, completely custom characters from scratch there's no getting around having to create all the sprites yourself. Particularly eye and mouth sprites, but also hands, if you prefer sprite hands over bone hands.
The alternative is to 'kit bash' existing characters in the composer, which is perfectly valid (and saves a lot of time) if you're making characters for your own projects and not planning to sell those characters in the Marketplace.