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Reallusion's Comedy Contest. Reallusion, the creators CrazyTalk 8 , which makes animating 2D or 3D talking heads easy, launched their latest animation competition, The CrazyTalk Comedy Contest . The competition closes on June 24th, 2016, which is plenty of time to learn CrazyTalk and submit a 60 second comedy animation created with the software. Even better, if you don't own CrazyTalk 8, you can still enter as Reallusion is making a special free edition available for download from the contest page. Making this the ideal time to give it a try and possibly win over $1000.00 in cash. Of Course I'm Entering... Work in progress. The Comedian in iClone6. The Comedian Back in March I started working on a CT8/iClone6 animation based upon a character I created for a planned series of comic strips called 'The Comedians'. Even though this animation was intended to use both CT8 (close ups) and iClone 6 (medium and wide shots) to create a complete short, my comedian's entir...

Bat Storm.  I've reviewed Muvizu before and recommended it to friends as a low cost entry point to 3D, drag'n'drop, animation. It's very much like a simplified version of Reallusion's iClone6 and, at just over AU$50.00 for the full licensed version, which includes commercial use, hard to pass up. As easy to use as Muvizu is, it can also grow with you as your skills improve. As you get more familiar with the software you'll discover just how customizable everything is. Making Batman with Muvizu I recently decided to purchase a Muvizu license and found, among the additional character styles unlocked, some really cool, stylized action superhero characters. Naturally, I decided to make a Batman character... because... Batman! Turns out you can get pretty close to a good looking, cartoon style Batman with the superhero male character (known as 'Beefy'). A great feature of the 'beefy' character is you can add a cowl of any color just by adjusting a s...

Plotagon TET Avatar. Plotagon , the free, type an animation app for PC, Mac, iPad and iPhone, has undergone a complete transformation since I last reviewed it in this blog . Gone are the more realistically stylised 3D characters and scenes in favour of a more friendly, 3D cartoon style. It's a style I really like so it prompted me to see what's new in Plotagon version 2. Note that I'm using the PC desktop app so this review pertains to that specifically. Character Creator Right away I really enjoyed the new custom character creator. There's plenty of options to create very different looking characters, both male and female. Plotagon Character Creator. You are limited in color choices for skin, hair, eyes and clothing, which is not a big issue but if you did want to use a very specific color scheme that isn't going to be an option. There's no option to adjust your character's height or weight so body types will all be very much the same however there is enoug...