#Cartoon animator 4 discount software#
If that much is possible, then it feels like having that sort of system directly controlled within the Editor could significantly empower animators, compared to the classic 'store a special pose keyframe in another timeline to paste in when you need it' approach, and could be applied to a wide range of custom poses outside the classic example of a head turn.Īnnnnnd, thus ends my impromptu feature pitch.The idea is a part of the process the software can’t help with but we all have great ideas, so make sure you keep a notebook or some sort of digital notepad to keep track of them all. Much of this is already possible to some degree if an animator were to work extensively with a programmer to create a control system in something like Unity, wherein some scripted sliders in Unity would control the Alpha blend of a list of 'target pose' animation tracks to achieve dynamic expressions at runtime. If, like in the Preview panel, there were the option of applying that target pose additively, a rigger would even be able to set up a system where specific elements of an expression could be applied through control sliders, behaving very closely to Maya's Blendshapes feature. With each of these yellow dots representing a defined target pose coordinate, a single controller bone moving through these coordinates could blend seamlessly through many extremes and a rigger could add breakdown poses to fix any zones where the posing falls apart, which seems to be quite similar to how CA4 is treating the setup. In a world where one bone can be connected to MULTIPLE target poses, it may even be possible to set up a controller like the one featured in the Cartoon Animator 4 video. Maybe they grab a forearm and connect the activation of the target pose ( a swollen bicep) with a specific rotation value of the forearm. Maybe they make a dedicated control box bone like the one this user envisioned. The benefit to a system like this is that the animator could control that alpha-blend-like process themselves using any elected bone as the controller. In my mind, this is identical to if one were to go to the Preview panel and slowly drag the Alpha up from 0 to 100 on a separate animation track containing keys on only the necessary elements of the target pose. The closer bone A gets to a pre-defined value (an X/Y transform coordinate, in most cases), the closer any other implicated elements get to their target pose.For simplicity's sake, imagine it as a separate animation track containing only one frame, in which the face is posed in a side view. There is some context in which the user can define a pose.How I envision it working in its simplest form is this: It may also be somewhat related to the planned Range Constraints feature, but it doesn't seem encompassed by it, so bare with me. I should obviously preface this with the fact I'm not a programmer, but I feel like a script-free and potentially lightweight solution may be possible. Hi, Nate! I've been ruminating on this matter for a while now, though I'm sure you've put no small amount of thought into it as well. Now if I can take a moment to hijack your thread to address Nate. As Erika mentions in this thread, a lot of cartooning programs use scripts to achieve this effect, which she also confirms aren't planned for Spine for the near future. I've seen a lot of people asking about ways to rig up automatic custom poses to achieve more smoothly automated controllers like CA4 has.
So you can't get a 360 automated rotation, but you can do some extra legwork and still achieve it manually. Sometimes I keep separate dummy animation tracks to store the keyframes for these custom angles, then just copy those keys into my main animation timeline when I need to hit that pose again. After that point, it's usually up to the animator to custom pose the rig into the desired shape. Most of the rigs that I've seen (or created) can only achieve a certain degree of automated rotation before the face direction controller reaches its limits.
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