Animation and Video Life

Created with Lywi.com Comic Maker. One really exciting use for Cartoon Animator and other animation software is to assist in the production of creating motion comics. If you're not familiar with motion comics just think of them as a kind of video comic book that typically features (but not always) all of the dialogue in each panel read by voice actors along with limited animation to make the still images more dynamic and visually interesting. Below is a demonstration motion comic I made many years ago when I reviewed Smith Micro's Motion Artist software (which has since been discontinued but, if you can find a copy, its entire purpose was to create motion comics and other motion graphics). Follow the link to the review if you want to see how this was made. The great thing about motion comics is that they're much easier to animate than an animated cartoon short. Often much of the animation will be moving a a static image of a character, panning the camera across a scene cre...

This animation technique allows the creation of whiteboard animations inside Cartoon Animator 5 without having to create frame by frame animation of your images being drawn Something I've been thinking about for literal years is how to create whiteboard animations using Reallusion's Cartoon Animator to do the animation. Specifically, looking for an easy way that doesn't involve any kind of frame by frame animation of images being drawn. Finally I think I've solved it with a technique that you can replicate. The release of Cartoon Animator 5 gave us two new features, Spring Bones and Free Form Deformations (FFD), which have made it very possible to create your own, fairly convincing, whiteboard animations directly in the software itself. Adding spring bones to the arm/hand prop, makes it look less stiff and more natural without having to do any extra work. While FFD makes it easy enough to 'reveal' whatever is being drawn with a little bit of sleight of hand (p...