When I was a student of Electronic Music at the Conservatory School of Music, there was a lot of interests in Multimedia projects that involved 2D and 3D animation. I was very passionate about it and I started studying it extensively, and offering my help in every project I could work on as an illustrator and animator. My work was appreciated, and I got a lot of encouragement from my teachers and fellow students. I continued developing those skills, and eventually 2D Illustration and 2D animation turned out to be the main part of my job.
I started the content business by working for Microstock Agencies and Freelancing Platforms. Well, I chose CrazyTalk Animator 3 because it is the perfect software for everyday people, like me, that need to produce animated content in a very limited time and that have to to take care of different aspects of designs from character design to sound design. The output quality is outstanding and the workflow is smooth and customisable. CrazyTalk Animator 3 is just the tool I have been waiting for a long time!
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In my work I use Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects and Logic Pro on a daily basis. Most of my production requires vector illustrations. I usually like to sketch with Photoshop using my tablet, and then work on my final pieces in Illustrator.
Well, I am growing very passionate about CrazyTalk Animator, so expect me to create more and more content for the store. I like to push the limit of the tools and I try to find new and creative solutions. So I hope I will be able to surprise you!
One thing to mention is that after learning the tool I decided to check out the Reallusion Incubation Program, which gave me the push to become a CTA3 developer. The program is really great as I could apply to get the tools for free, along with direct Reallusion support, and even early funding for my projects!
Hello! My name is Daniel S. Ferebee and I am a retired school teacher living on the east coast of the United States. I have been involved in the creative arts for more than 20 years now. The content I develop includes graphic design, photography, music production, illustration, animation, voiceover and character design.
When I first started working, creating content with digital technology was not a part of the process. However, now I constantly look for ways to merge traditional design techniques with digital design tools!
Aside from studying many of the art and drama courses offered in our public-school system before heading to college, I was always creating little projects on the side to satisfy an overly creative mind.
With overwhelming support from my mother, I kept very busy developing my skills in visual arts, music and photography. While in primary school, I discovered comic books and fell in love with the simplistic styles of art that expressed so much power and energy to tell a story.
I have always found the internet to be an invaluable resource for locating interesting software to help with many creative endeavors. So, I began searching for something that would help streamline my workflow and speed up the process from concept to delivery.
The software would have to be easy to learn so that I could quickly begin creating animations for telling stories, delivering messages or educating children and adults. I needed something that would simplify many aspects of the process such as lip sync and repeated motions. I had already been using CrazyTalk for a couple of years before discovering CrazyTalk Animator (CTA).
Aside from being able to purchase content within the Reallusion Store to add more capabilities to a character, the CTA3 software also allows me to create my own library of custom movements and other assets such as props and accessories.
After using CTA2 for a while I became familiar with it enough to rely on it in daily production. When CTA3 came out with the ability to import character designs from Photoshop, it was like a match made in heaven.
The variety of characters and animation styles became limitless. CTA3 will continue to be a part of my pipeline for production as well as for creating content for others to use for their own productions.
In addition to CTA3, I also use Moho Studio Pro [formerly known as Anime Studio].
Depending on the tasks, sometimes I might use the software packages in conjunction with one another because of how well I believe they complement each other.
One of my first long animations (with Anime Studio) that was over 2 minutes, involved a piece that was not created for a client or students. It was a short holiday story created for my daughter. I wanted to test how quickly I could output a piece of work from concept to completion within a limited time window.
The attire will constantly be changing and there will be approximately 8 to 10 main characters in addition to less important. For many years, this project has had to wait on the back burner because the team vision was a bit ahead of the tools needed to create something that would represent our talents without producing something that was of substandard quality.
Now technology and a talented team with be working together to produce many exciting creations in the near future! So stay tuned!
You also are still limited to just a single character in an animation, so CrazyTalk continues to require an actual editing solution to create multiple character animations. (With creative greenscreen, you can get a lot of animated people in one shot, as the Whiskey & Chai episode shows: =1itLzD48QE8 )
As mentioned before, 3D is where the bulk of innovation for the Depth of Options was put and, honestly, for a lot of folks interested in doing talking-head style animation, this could be a game changer, because the 3D morphs look a lot more convincing than the pseudo-3D 2D morphs found in the main version. In my testing, I could see how this could be very helpful for someone wanting to rediscover a Max-Headroom-style mascot for a brand or to create a new smart aleck film critic (ala Jeremy Jahns from Collider, who, defying all rational explanation, is somehow not actually 3D animated).
Additionally, you can choose any number of different clothing items and/or accessories for your character to wear. (Because your character will usually have either a default male or female body with no real customization to those bodies, the clothes tend fit quite well, as a rule. You can get expansions with more heads and bodies, but fortunately the customization options will let you enlarge and reposition clothes and accessories as needed, which is nice.) Check out the following video of some different clothes on my avatar and some different environments he finds himself in.
While there are no options for directly importing new 3D objects from other 3D programs, there is a large library of converted objects, items, bodies, and clothes that are being created at the Reallusion Marketplace for you to import into CT8.
As with CT7, for projects 10 minutes or less, the overall performance for CrazyTalk8 was very good and it was fairly stable on my PC. Once we got into projects that were longer, especially those with a lot of sub-animation or with more auto-animation movement, we had more sluggishness creep in and had more stability issues (although CT8 does seem to be generally more stable as a whole than CT7). Rendering 3D and/or working with Ultra HD was correspondingly longer, but not especially tedious.
The similarity between CT7 and CT8 when it came to actual lag and delay was where I became extremely confused because one of the big performance improvements in CT8 is that it is now 64-bit, so it can address all the ram and resources that a modern computer has access to (unlike CT7 which is 32-bit and could address a fraction of the resources in most computers).
In this scenario the daughter responds to the content of the accusation and becomes defensive and frustrated but also more engaged in the conversation drags out for many minutes. She is exhausted at the end of the conversation and he may feel equally frustrated but he certainly has gotten her attention.
In the alternative response, daughter does not get hooked by the conversation and in fact calls the interaction to a quick polite and uninterested close. This responses actually much more likely to result in better behavior in the future.
I like to mentally invoke a memory of the time when I was particularly exhausted: I was working as an intern on an extraordinarily busy Medicine service at San Francisco General Hospital. I had been getting three or four hours a night of sleep and was completely drained. My resident paged me at 4 AM to tell me that there was a tricyclic antidepressant overdose patient in the emergency room and I should come down to deal with this interesting case since she knew I was interested in psychiatry.
If you come up with an example of a time when you were exhausted emotionally in your own mind and use the example to help you stick to your commitment to not be interested in crazy talk you will find it is possible to change how you respond. And you will find that your disinterested or detached response discourages that behavior.
The media scholar and social critic Neil Postman once penned a work titled Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk. The book sounds more like a mass-market product than a serious scholarly work, but the catchy phrase does actually serve a useful purpose. According to Postman, "stupid talk" is language that is recognized as foolish because of its vocabulary, tone, or suppositions. "Crazy talk" is syntactically and semantically acceptable, even persuasive, but it promotes ideas that are irrational, inconsequential, and even malevolent. The passages below have been excerpted from pages 74-75, 85-90 of the Dell edition (New York, 1976).
"So far, wherever I have used the term crazy talk, I have been referring to talk that reflects 'bad' purposes. Where I have used the term stupid talk, I have been referring to talk that defeats legitimate purposes. Now, I will not say that this taxonomy is especially rigorous...In this case, my distinction between crazy talk and stupid talk is no less precise or more troublesome than a psychiatrist's distinction between a 'manic-depressive' and a 'schizophrenic.' And I bother to make the distinction for the same reason: It helps in pointing the way to a solution to the 'problem.' If we can see, even dimly, the way in which some person or situation is not working, then we are better equipped to suggest remedies...
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