This Animation Software is Getting Better | Cartoon Animator 5.2

hello animators I hope you're all doing well today we are taking a look at cartoon animator and its latest exciting update cartoon animator 5.2 which introduced a lot of exciting stuff this should make a lot of headstern and the new features introduced in this release will not only change how you work on your animation but also make your life that much easier with that being said and for full transparency this video is sponsored by reillusion a re-illusion with their assortment of tools like iclone Character Creator and our subject for today's video cartoon animator was always about Reinventing and making animation more accessible to a wider audience and in the process making animation easier for seasoned users as well especially in the last few years cartoon animator is finding its strides by presenting a workflow that animators are gravitating towards nowadays you can safely say that the software is one of the best if not the best especially when it comes to rigged 2D animation all of that taking into account that the software does so much more and is able to integrate itself virtually into any pipeline it can work seamlessly and Export too and from any major design software it supports vector and raster graphics and can be used for a plethora of different fields a case in point just while waiting for this video I saw this map animation and my video ideas about a treasure tale began tingling and that's what I'm trying to say cartoon animator is extremely versatile and can be used in so many ways it actually reminds me sometimes of blender a little I just hope it doesn't fall in the Jack of all trades master of nuns bit which I don't think is a concern because cartoon animator is focusing on only one thing for now okay now let's talk about the update the latest update introduced two main features motion pilot and motion path animation Each of which includes a ton of exciting elements motion pilot allows you to puppet characters or props in your scenes with mouse movements which would make you quickly and effortlessly generate intricate and complex animations in no type motion pilot also allows you to modify props and characters blend motions together assign automatic animations and add flock behavior for object groups and what you are left with is the question how the hell has nobody thought of this before I mean it just makes a lot of sense at least from a functionality standpoint to use your mouse but maybe not the other feature in path animation which will enhance path editing tremendously and open up a ton of avenues to be able to animate all sorts of paths in character animator including using the mouse recorded path as a well a path doesn't sound exciting when I say it out loud but trust me these are some exciting stuff trust me bro all right let's start beating around the bush motion pilot and they're the motion pilot suit there are four different tools each serving is somewhat different purpose and almost all of them can be used in conjunction or layered on top of each other the tools are transform wave motion and flock all of these come with a dozen free presets to get you started but if that isn't enough cartoon animator is offering a Content pack dubbed puppet gems with hundreds of presets but more on that later so we'll start from the top first transform transform is for Mouse puppetry it enables you to use your mouse to drive animations mainly into the X and Y plan but you can also use the Z depth value to move your subject around something the subject will turn or rather flip with the most movements or better yet you can use the turn mode which allows you to override object rotation and make your character follow the mouse around and as we mentioned before there are presets for transform on the puppet profile subfolder there are also a couple of puppet samples already available to test them for yourself my favorite is this phoenix bird that follows the mouse and flaps the wings every time I click the mouse next is wave and now if this has nothing to do with C waves even though it can be used in that way wave is similar to transform movement but it expands and lets you assign automatic waves or repetitive movements on top of the transform movement the animation can be activated using Mouse movements by clicking the use Mouse movement box in this case that if you keep the mouse still nothing will happen till you move your mouse thirdly motion pilot allows you to create animations and blend them together seamlessly this feature can be used with any type of motion including character motion ffd motion elastic or prop motion and even image sequences this process can also be used for transform opacity Sprite and deform animations and can be triggered with mouse movements and clicking if you expand the motion sitting section you will find the blend motion option where you can select and add any the animation to blend with your movement you are going to be able to control the speed of the animation and reverse animation upon a mouse click and last but not least we have flock which allows you to puppet multiple objects at the same time basically you can assign a leader object which will share the properties with predefined sub-objects the flock can be animated simultaneously or you can use a uniform or random delay in which case it will take a moment before the flock reacts the delay can be adjusted manually some usages for this feature is animating a school of fish a flock of birds the I mean come on it's literally the name it would be very awkward if it wasn't a use case anyway as for my bees a fleet of Jets or boats you got the point I actually urge you if you want to learn more about motion pilot so check out the real illusion YouTube channel they put out a well-made curated playlist with videos on each motion pilot feature breaking it down brilliantly and finally we have the New Path feature which will allow you to control exactly how and where objects in your scene are going to move for example you can pick the beginning and end position of your object animation with the ability to offset the path but what's exciting is that a single path can be shared with other objects and on top of all of that paths now can save both shape and transform data from the path properties panel you can parent any object to the path by using the eyedropper tool you can pick the drag mode and the progression which is a slider from 0 to 100 objects that follow that path can inherit different rotations so you can use the follow path drop down menu to correct the rotation and of course you have an offset section where you can offset the scale rotation and location of the object I also wanted to tell you about puppet gems puppet gems is a massive content pack of pre-configured puppet profiles such as the one we've seen in this video from the transform to wave motion and so on showcasing the power of cartoon animator's latest motion pilot the pack includes 240 plus assets with over 90 puppet profiles 52 multi-props 9 CTA G3 free bones 7g3 actors 140 ready-made objects and 10 sample projects all jokes aside Guys these honestly look like the greatest resource for 2D creators all assets can be customized to the full extent and easily fit in any use case so if you like what you see and you want to get your hands on character animator 5.2 and try it for free you can follow the link in the video description I hope you found this video useful if you did please give it a thumbs up and leave your comments down below thank you so much for watching thank you for reillusion for sponsoring this video and we'll see you next time take care [Music]

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Length: 8min 1sec (481 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 27 2023