Reallusion’s Cartoon Animator 5 desktop cartoon production software is coming soon, and there are offers in the emails such as ‘buy an upgrade and get version 5 free when it appears’. It’s good software for making that kind of animation, especially for a small studio. Professional, fairly easy to use, very well documented and supported. Though you to be aware that you probably need to budget four times the initial ‘sticker price’, if you’re going to fully get into the expensive Reallusion ecosystem with motion add-ons and expansion packs and suchlike.
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Six-week coaching course, AI for your art
Starting soon, a six-week coaching course on AI for your art, with Vladimir Chopine.
Out now, Digital Art Live #71 – “Battle”
Now available, free on Gumroad, the “Battle” issue of Digital Art Live magazine. Also has a 12-page centre section on the Poser 12 software, to give some light relief in the middle. And a two-page technical primer on Poser-to-Vue.
DAZ Freebies page updates
The DAZ Freebies pages has updated.
Ninive 6 Starter Bundle has Beach Wave Hair for Genesis 2, and a set of Capsces poses (always quality).
Keiko 6 Basic Poses, suited to thin toony Genesis 2 figures.
Tale Hero Textures are nice, but require the Sarsa/Val3dart “Tale Hero” (not free) for Genesis 1. The shirt has potential, for hobbits.
Careers at DAZ – recruiting now
ClipDrop
An interesting new re-lighting service, ClipDrop – Relight. Requires a 2D picture-upload, and you then get “as-if 3D” real-time relighting.
Animated demo:
I’m not sure how well it would work with a picture that doesn’t look like a head-and-shoulders passport photo.
I’m guessing it may also be flummoxed by wild Poser/DAZ stuff, such as an all-action hero cyber-elephant wearing goggles, posed against a complex cyber-city background.
Doubtless this sort of capability is coming to desktop software in a month or two, if it isn’t here already in something I haven’t heard about yet. But this is a nice online demo of the capabilities.
By the way, here is the “Click to replay” code, for the above demo. A few lines of simple HTML for Web pages. I’m surprised people go overboard with massive javascripts just to add a simple animated .PNG control…
Working in Opera (Chrome), Brave (Chrome) and Pale Moon (Firefox). You’re welcome.