INTUITIVE ANIMATION SOFTWARE

The Best Animation Software for YouTubers

face motion capture

easy way to control emotional expressions

If you add these 2 plugins to Cartoon Animator 4:

motion live 2d and face3d profile

You will be able to use any webcam to control the facial animation of your character instantly.

360 HEAD TURN

Easily take your 2D Art and create 360 Head Turns

  • Transform Face Elements for Smooth Angle Transition
  • Turn on Onion Skin for proper sprite placement
  • Mask-out features outside the face

Check the video to see demonstrations.

Quick Character creation

You can take any drawing of a character and prepare it for animation by using the Mask Editor for Advanced Character Creation.

With the mask editor, you can cutout the image into separate layers.

  1. Import Image
  2. Add bones
  3. Mask to separate into layers
  4. Animate it!

EASY POSE EDITING AND ANIMATION

Intuitive IK/FK Smart Motion System

Drag-and-move end effectors for IK editing, directly rotate joins for FK editing.

Intuitive pose-to-pose editing without switching IK and FK modes.

One transform timeline track can keep End Effector Constraints and it’s Effective Range.

Set keys only to Selected Body Parts, or to Full Body motion layers.

VAST CHARACTER AND MOTION LIBRARIES

With the vast content provided in the Motion Library, you can get your characters moving in no time, by just adding motion clips.

Motion clips are pre-animated actions that you can insert in your characters.

Think of it as you being the director of the scene, telling your characters what to do in the scene.

“Start running, do a roll, and then stop.”

As easy as that, without having to do the animation for all of those actions.

Done with Simple Click and Drag

FAST CHARACTER RIGGING

AUTO IK RIG


Generate IK-ready 2D animated characters, CTA4 provides standardized IK Controls for template-based characters.

We’ve also added the Auto IK Rig for Photoshop Imported characters. For custom created free-bone characters, now users may create a custom GUI from the Custom Rig GUI.

PSD IN-OUT FOR

ANIMATION DESIGN

You can easily launch Photoshop, modify any images, and synchronize updates. Cartoon Animator 4 can send any object or character to Photoshop in layers for further editing.

You can also add new designs, clothes, accessories, or apply filters to your animatable assets.

FULL COMPATIBILITY

Thanks to the PSD import feature, Cartoon Animator 4 is compatible with most graphic tools that support PSD files for layering, grouping, and masking.

WORKS WITH ALL KINDS OF

CARTOON CHARACTERS

You will have correct backward knee bend animation for quadruped animals. And if you need to alter the bone length between two bone segments, you can use shift+drag to produce a uniform transform effect such as the gorilla arm movement.

AUTO LIP SYNC

Once your character is rigged with different sprites for the different phonemes used for lip-sync, making your characters talk will be super easy.

Easy 3-step process:

  1. Select character
  2. Insert/Record Audio Voice
  3. Adjust the Lip Sync

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This bundle will teach you everything you need to know to animate any story or idea in Cartoon Animator 4. Learn from the pros on how to do organic character animation and techniques to achieve great timing in animation.

  • Total of 55 Lessons
  • Total of 6 hrs of HD Videos
  • Total of 32 Project Files to Practice
  • Detailed Step-By-Step Explanations
  • Learn to Create Your Own Animation

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PSD in-out for animation

360 degree head turn

Smart IK/FK motion system

Free bone editor

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Character and motion libraries

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Cartoon Animator 4 Pipeline

PSD in-out for animation

360 degree head turn

Smart IK/FK motion system

Free bone editor

Facial animation

Auto lip-sync

Character and motion libraries

Facial Motion Capture for Webcam:

Motion Live 2D

Face3D Profile

Exclusive FREE Bonus ($97 Value):

Learn Animation in CA4

Good Timing Animation

Save Time in Facial Animation

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