Turn Photoshop to Animation | Cartoon Animator

Turn PSD Images into Animated 2D Characters

With the Cartoon Animator, you can convert your 2D artworks or photos to G3 Characters through PSD Templates. This will allow you to easily auto-rig your new characters from PSD files for easy avatar and Photoshop animation, thanks to hundreds of professional motion libraries.

Design 360 Heads with PSD Layers

Complete PSD to CTA round-trip workflow for 360 Head Creation
The PSD character template is extended with angle layers for sprite change
Use several image layers to accentuate depth such like a hog’s nose
Build the layer hierarchy using a simple naming rule, eg. Parent > Child
The 360 Head Creator can generate and send angle definitions back to Photoshop, new PSD layers are generated for the 360 angle adjustments

Designing 360 Heads with Photoshop Layers

Free Templates For Hand Animations

With Bone Hand Samples, you can customize the hand by replacing the PSD hand layers. Simply move the dots to the finger joints, to create characters with rigged hands. Then, you can generate delicate finger animations through hand mocap or the Bone Hand Pose Editor. Free Template >

Customize your Hands

Smooth Gesture Animations

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Turn 2D Animation into Graphic Illustration

With the PSD export capabilities, Cartoon Animator is now your go-to animation tool that helps you freely pose illustrated characters, quickly swap outfits & accessories, and create custom facial expressions. After combing all your custom creations, you can then export them in layers for re-editing and compositing - saving you lots of effort and time for comic creations, magazine covers, infographics, banner designs, and much much more.

Prepare your Character

Bring in graphic components to assemble your own characters.

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Edit in Photoshop Tools

Use Photoshop Tools for image editing and graphics design.

Create Facial Expressions

Puppet animate facial expressions.

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Animate it

Free to pose your characters and arrange accessory layer relations.

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Quickly Create Animated Content

With the capability to launch Photoshop and synchronize updates, Cartoon Animator can send props or characters to Photoshop in layers for further custom editing. You can easily design clothes, alter color shading,or apply filter effects to your animatable assets.

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STYLE CHANGE

ASSET CREATION

Skin Color

It’s easy to change skin color, multiple image segment layers, and update animatable sprites at one time.

Shading & Effects

Easily upgrade simple illustrations to sophisticated visuals like paper cutting, hash shading, or shadow and highlight.

Hair

Place hair assets in the hair folder, to allow back and front hair manipulation.

Outfit

Attach outfits to character’s torso, neck or hips - based on their wearing position.

Props & Accessories

Freely apply props and accessories to different sprite surfaces, or link to bone or sprites with appropriate offset.

STYLE CHANGE

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Skin Color

It’s easy to do color change to multiple layers of image segments, and update all the animated sprites in one time.

Shading and Effects

Upgrading from simple illustration to different visual presentation such as paper cutting, or shading.

ASSETS CREATION

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Hair

Placing hair assets in the hair folder, allowing back hair and front hair.

Outfit

Attach outfit to character’s torso, neck or hips, based on their wearing position.

Props & Accessories

Free to apply them to different sprite surface or bone with appropriate offset.

Generate a Whole Series of Characters

Once you setup one character, then you can quickly add new assets in Photoshop to generate abundant styles. These assets can be reused, and characters are free to posed and animated.

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Exclusive PSD Character Template

We provide PSD G3 character template for users to create various animatable characters by easily organizing body parts into logically grouped layers. Free Template >

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2D Scenes with 3D Depths

Design scenes in a layered PSD and send to Cartoon Animator. PSD layers (folders) appear as manageable scene elements in CTA. Then you can arrange the scene elements with Z-depth to easily create 3D parallax effects with animated cameras. View Manual >

Easy Hierarchy Buildup

Easily group PSD layers into individual objects.
Follow the intuitive PSD layer naming rules to set object hierarchy for structured animations. View Manual >

Create Animated Scenes

Arrange objects with 3D depth for parallax effects, animate with free-form deformation (FFD) keys, or apply dynamic animations from the motion libraries. Send updated PSD artworks to CTA, for conceptualization to production in no time.

Roundtrip Editing for PSD Editors

A two-way process that evolves sketch concepts and storyboards, to final production. Start with storyboard sketches and bring them to CTA for animation. Keep updating the artwork while keeping the animation intact.