Since it appears that CT 5.0 won't be out for the next six months, I have a few more suggestions to improve it.

One thing that would really help would be some sort of "Basic Face Layer" that could be set at the start of a script and then the other facial expressions would layer on top of this. This is similar to the way the phoneme track works -- you can set your character to a smile and the phonemes work with the smile as an additional layer.

There are lots of times I'd like to change the basic structure of a character to start, with say a squinty eye, or snarling lip, but still be able to put other facial expressions like a smile or frown on top of this. Short of editing each and every expression this is currently impossible.

It would make such things as a sleepy smile (just close the eyes down somewhat to a sleepy position and then put your smile on top of that) easy to do -- these expressions could be further saved for even more possibilities.

Dear mkelley

We really appreciate your ideas to improve CT.
The team will evaluate the possibilty to make it become one of the important features in CT 5.0.

If I get any info from the team, I will let you know.

Thanks a lot
Visconti