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More About Rigging My First Vector Character in Cartoon Animator 5 For My Resident Dragon, 2D Animated Web Series

Cartoon Animator 5's Smooth Mode Face Setup. I t's taken some doing but I've finally finished rigging the front facing angle of my G3-360 Vector TET Avatar character for my 2D animated web series Resident Dragon . If you're new to this series I've been showing the behind the scenes development of the character for my animation software, Cartoon Animator 5 because it is a particularly advanced rig with challenges that I haven't seen solved anywhere else. If you would like to catch up here's links to Part 1 and Part 2 which cover the very beginnings of the character and series, and both include behind the scenes video as well. This post was a final push to get the character finished and animated. I should point out, it doesn't normally take this long to rig a vector character for Cartoon Animator. I've just had limited time and have been developing solutions for common challenges people have faced when rigging a character with outlines, so the outlin...