Interfacing Guideline | Cartoon Animator

INTERFACING WITH CARTOON ANIMATOR

Smart Content Manager provides one-click installation of free designer resources and purchased assets. With powerful tag and search functions, all items can be easily found without fumbling through numerous asset folders. NEW!
Convenient editing with viewport gizmos: select, transform, link, etc. and navigational tools for camera zoom, pan, and rotate.
Two specialized editing environments: Composer Mode for character and prop setup, and Stage Mode for animation editing.
Timeline editor for fine-grained control over keyframing and timing.
Select between White or Dark mode for the preferred style of the UI.

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3D Camera System

Use the Preview Camera to review scenes, and the Live Camera to animate camera positions with key frames.
Customize camera views with pan, rotate, and zoom tools.
Quickly switch between Perspective and Orthographic views for a 2D or 3D sensations.
Navigate scenes in Perspective mode to experience realistic 3D camera movements.

Smoothly Animate Along a Path

Create path anchors in different time frames for character and object motions.
Customize path anchors with position adjustments and speed control.
Freely control facing, and fade In/Out by using the Flip and Transparency features.
Attach and move subsidiary elements with the Link/Unlink features.

Smoothly Animate Along a Path

Create path anchors in different time frames for character and object motions.
Customize path anchors with position adjustments and speed control.
Freely control facing, and fade In/Out by using the Flip and Transparency features.
Attach and move subsidiary elements with the Link/Unlink features.

Prepare your Scene with the Safe Zone

Quickly adjust your project’s output size/frame and aspect ratio before rendering and final export.
Easily manage presence, and movements of characters and props.
Current frame render button helps users instantly preview their output quality settings.

Prepare your Scene with the Safe Zone

Quickly adjust your project’s output size/frame and aspect ratio before rendering and final export.
Easily manage presence, and movements of characters and props.
Current frame render button helps users instantly preview their output quality settings.

Render Style for Vector-based Content (For G2 Characters & Props Only)

Instantly change scene styles to match different project scenarios.
Find various color profiles and quickly change color groups to match the tone of the environment.
Apply render style to multiple selections at once.

TIMELINE EDITING FOR STORYTELLING

Multiple-track Selection and Editing

Select an object and its subsidiary tracks for fast group editing.
Copy & paste, Time Shift, and Time Scale adjustment over multiple element tracks.

Simulate Cartoon Physics with Motion Curves

Create cartoon-style animations by applying Transition Curves to Transform Keys, and Time Warp to Motion Clips.
Simulate real-world physics like slowing down, speeding up, free falling, bouncing, floating, or accelerating a linear motion clip.

Animate Characters

Animate body motions with up to 16 individual body segment tracks, with facial motion tracks that are divided into voice scripts, morphs and sprite-based categories.
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Loop or extend motion clips to repeat animation and control speed.

Motion layering allows layer additions over existing motions.

Switch body parts using sprite replacement keys.

Align Clips -
helps you solve sliding issues when combining motion clips with different initial poses or positions.

Animate Props

Key frame editing for opacity, transform, visibility, link, path animation, deformation, sprite switching, and flipping with blending effects.

Motion Layering

Transformation
Sprite Switch
Deformation

Elastic Motion clips for Entry/Exit/Emphasis effects.

FFD Motion clips for free form deformation.

Add motion clips to the quick perform list, to later reuse from the right-click Action menu.