Free Bone Character

The default Free Bone characters can be created with CrazyTalk Animator Version 3, or above. It is built with free structures of bones. Therefore, the character can be human or non-human.

ClosedNote:

Basically, the Free Bone Characters do not have any heads. You must attach a head in the Composer Mode onto one of the bones of the bone structure in order to have the character talk. The heads in the illustration at the beginning of this section are only images driven by bones and do not have the ability to talk.

ClosedTheory of G3 and Free Bone Characters

The theory of the G3 or Free Bone Characters is based on a Bone-rig technique.

ClosedNote:
  • Please note that the bone at the bottom side of the triangle is the Parent bone while the one at the tip point of the triangle is the Child.
  • The triangle between two bones is actually Not a Bone. It is only an indication for showing the direction of the bone string and the connection between bones.
  1. Cartoon Animator first subdivides the loaded image into numerous triangles.

  2. Afterwards, Cartoon Animator calculates the influence weights for each endpoint of the triangles in accordance with their distance to the adjacent bones.
  3. When the bones offset or rotate by IK or FK methods, the image will thus be driven to distort and animate.
 
ClosedFree Bone Character Library

The Free Bone characters embedded can be found in the G3 Free Bone library.

The thumbnails and paths of the characters are as described in the table below:

Assets

Thumbnail

Location (default)

Description

Free Bone Characters

  • G3 Free Bone - C:\Users\Public\Documents\Reallusion\Template\Cartoon Animator 4 Template\Character\G3\5_G3 Free Bone
  • G3 360 Free Bone - C:\Users\Public\Documents\Reallusion\Template\Cartoon Animator 4 Template\Character\_G3 360\5_G3 360 Free Bone
  • A bone structure of this kind can be freely constructed. There are no specific rules for them.
  • The types of source images for this kind of bones are unlimited and can be anything.
 
ClosedMotion Compatibility

For the Free Bone characters, you can only use the Edit Motion Layer panel to do the key-frame animation for them.