Note that you can skip this step and just work directly with the artwork but you'll have to contend with background distortion and double imagery of the head. Once you become adept at CrazyTalk 8 setting up a head can take as little as 5-10 minutes. Your first time may take between 30 minutes to an hour as you tweak all the settings.
Start a new project by clicking on the Create a New Actor icon and select 2D Actor. Click the next button to start the face fitting process. If you crop the head it will become out of alignment with your background and may even be rescaled to a different ratio. The red arrow points to the Detail Face Fitting Icon.Ĭlick to access this step before clicking Next.įollow the face fitting steps through according to the guide images shown. It should be fairly straight forward, though don't forget to use the Detail Face Fitting step which is easily missed if you're new to CrazyTalk 8.Ĭontinue the process until you're back in the main CrazyTalk 8 stage looking at your newly created head floating in white space. On the top toolbar is the Background Settings icon. Click on this and import your background image.Īt this point if you hit the play button at the bottom of the stage window you'll see your character head moving with the default idle motion. Here I've customised the Iris with graphics It'll look pretty good until the eyes start moving and the mouth starts to open. You can improve how these look by adding custom eyes and teeth from the Actor Elements Tab of the Content Manager.ĬrazyTalk 8 comes with an entire range of custom eyes in different folder categories (found under the Actor Elements Tab of the Content Manager). For my characters I often find the Comic eyes are a good starting point. The additional eye iris graphics I created Just double click on the eyes you want and they'll be swapped into your character's head.įrom here the Eyes icon across the top toolbar will be activated allowing you to customise the look of your eye further.
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