Animation and Video Life

I wanted to start this installment of my series, where I document the process of creating my first ever, complete vector character for Cartoon Animator 5 using Inkscape, on a positive note. After much study and pouring over various templates I can confirm I'm not the issue. The Inkscape template is buggy, even the new ones... or maybe it's Inkscape itself? The reason I say this is, when you're working with Reallusion's character templates, problems with creating these characters is nearly always down to human error. Quite often it's a simple spelling mistake on a folder that has to be a specific name, or you've deleted something you shouldn't have. However I've been studying over these templates in extensive detail. Not just trying to solve my issues but also pulling them apart to try and discover a way to make this process easier - like I did with creating G3-PSD characters in my Fastest Way to Rig a Character in Cartoon Animator  tutorials. If you have...

Importing my character into CA5 for the first time. In part three of my series where I document the process of creating my very first, complete G3-360, SVG vector based character for Cartoon Animator 5 using Inkscape I get to the moment of truth - importing the character into CA5 for the very first time. In previous posts I showed how I came up with the character design and created the base character image, and how I created the individual main sprites and created the joints ready for rigging. Moving on... Creating an Outfit and Additional Face Sprites I mentioned previously that I wasn't just creating a female character in a bikini for the eye catching attention. I always planned to give her an outfit that was smart business attire.  My reference image for the character's business outfit. Right on the very next page of my sketchbook I drew what could easily be the same character in a smart business orientated outfit. So I took this sketch, overlaid it onto my character desi...