Do you find yourself spending too much time creating background elements for your animations or just settling for flat colors or a static gradient as a back drop for your explainer videos? For myself I often just don't have the time to put more effort into my backgrounds (or I'm just too much The Lazy Animator).Instant Animated BackgroundsAE Juice, who make animation presets, motion graphics ..read more

I realize writing a five part series over almost three months makes creating a G3-360 SVG vector character in Cartoon Animator 5 look like a long and drawn out process. However, I want to assure you that, once you've designed your character and divided up, or created the bare minimum of required sprites, the actual rigging process should maybe take an afternoon to a day at most - excluding ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

Level up you video edits and animations with AE Juice's motion graphics and templates.Some days you just don't have the time to create flashy motion graphics for your latest video or animation. For some of us it's more a question of our own artistic abilities being a little less than the awesome we'd like them to be. Whatever reason a resource like AE Juice's animation presets, motion graphics ..read more

Since I've previously covered how to get the most out of your purchased G3 and G1 characters for Reallusion's Cartoon Animator 5, it would be remiss of me not to look at the greatest character rig of all time, G2 characters.G2 Characters have been mostly relegated to legacy status since Cartoon Animator 3 but, as a rig that let you create fully 360 degree turn-able characters that moved in 3D ..read more

If you're serious about producing 2D animation as quickly as possible, while still achieving professional results, Reallusion's Cartoon Animator 5 makes the most compelling case yet as your animation studio/tool of choice.Cartoon Animator's point of difference has always been its ease of use and accelerated workflow. Creating fast, 2D animation using puppet, bone rigged based characters and props ..read more

One of the often overlooked strengths of Cartoon Animator is how easy it is to make new characters simply by mixing and matching elements from existing characters you already own. This ability is possible because of the standardized G3 Human template.Note that it is also possible to mix and match G1 and G2 character elements with themselves but, generally you can't mix G1 with G2 elements or G1 ..read more

If you're more of a blog writer than a video creator but you recognise that video can drive more readers to your blog then Lumen5's relatively simple, AI powered, online video creator may be just what you're looking for.Lumen5 can take a post link or RSS feed from your blog (or you can even just paste text into the editor) and, using AI and a library of premade templates, stock images, and stock ..read more

Are you tempted by the promise of easy to make, animated sketch videos, and perfectly lip synced, customizable, 3D animated Avatars?These days almost everyone is into producing video content. Whether it's to promote a business, teach a course, or just to share your creativity on YouTube and other social media. Producing great quality videos takes time to learn. It's even more challenging if you ..read more