tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319852092024-03-14T16:48:12.523+10:30Animation and Video LifeSouth Australian Artist, Writer, Video Producer and Animator, David Arandle working under the pseudonym 'The Extraordinary Tourist' or 'TET' for short blogs about his own animation projects as well as animation and video resources, reviews, how to's, tips, and advice for independent/hobby animators on a budget, focusing on low cost and free tools.TET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.comBlogger453125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-64114951689122380622024-03-13T10:30:00.133+10:302024-03-13T10:30:00.237+10:302D Animation Side Hustle - How to Package, Upload, Optimize, Price, and Promote Your Content in the Reallusion 2D MarketplaceThis is the final post in my four part, 2D Animation Side Hustle series on Selling in the Reallusion 2D Marketplace. I'll look at how to package up your content and upload it to the Marketplace, how to optimize your listings, price, and how to sell through your store backend as well as off site through social media and other channels.If you haven't read previous articles in the series click theseTET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-76255137859928148512024-02-28T10:30:00.084+10:302024-02-28T10:30:00.243+10:302D Animation Side Hustle - Deciding What to Sell in the Reallusion 2D Marketplace, Your USP, and Keeping Customers Coming BackIn part three of my 2D Animation Side Hustle series on selling in the Reallusion 2D Marketplace I look at deciding what to sell, your unique selling proposition (USP), and look at a key strategy to keep people coming back to your store.If you missed part one on Starting Your Side Hustle and whether you can earn real money, or part two on Niches and how to find ones in demand, I TET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-60422250931391020512024-02-14T10:30:00.022+10:302024-02-14T10:30:00.244+10:302D Animation Side Hustle - How to Find a Niche Market Selling Digital Characters, Props, and Background Art in the Reallusion 2D MarketplaceContinuing my series on your 2D Animation Side Hustle, Selling in the Reallusion 2D Marketplace, in this article I'm going to take a look at niches and why they're important to becoming a successful seller.I'll also look at some indicators, specific to the Reallusion Marketplace, that can help point you in the right direction of finding niches that are in demand.What is a Niche and Why Are They TET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-5074042029898308732024-01-31T10:30:00.129+10:302024-01-31T10:30:00.251+10:30Start Your 2D Animation Side Hustle - Sell Your Cartoon Animator Characters, Props, Scenes, and Motion Files in the Reallusion 2D/3D MarketplaceHave you thought about starting a side hustle selling your original Cartoon Animator assets in the Reallusion 2D/3D Marketplace? In this article, the first in a series on selling in the marketplace, I'll give you an overview of what's involved, why you should give it some thought, and whether you can earn enough to quit your day job (or at least have a worthwhile side hustle).If you're an artist TET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-85758081110190255722024-01-10T10:30:00.014+10:302024-01-23T23:30:35.256+10:30Prome AI Sketch Render Tool - Your Tradigital Clean Up and Colorist Artist for Character and Background DesignRandom character head, Biro sketches drawn by TET (left). Render by PromeAI (right)using Prome's Sketch Render tool set to 'Comon:Cartoon, Render Mode: Outline'.While I don't do New Year Resolutions, one of my plans for the year ahead is to do more of my own art. Specifically character design drawn in an actual, physical sketchbook. To that end, I have been spending the last half hour of TET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-46589712381278499012023-12-27T10:30:00.024+10:302023-12-27T10:30:00.176+10:30Resident Dragon: Christmas List - Behind the Scenes on TET's 2D Animated Christmas Short Made with Reallusion's Cartoon Animator 5A scene from Christmas List a short by TET.I released my end of year holiday short, Resident Dragon: Christmas List, staring my avatar, TET, Red the Dragon, Cool Froyd the Cat, and Grrr Dog. You will be seeing more of these original characters in the future as I'm developing a six part series. Watch the holiday short below.Since it's been a while since I've done a behind the scenes deepTET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-64452986870818963982023-12-13T10:30:00.014+10:302023-12-13T10:30:00.144+10:30Ready Made Characters, Props, and Scenes For Your Last Minute 2D Christmas Animations - Cartoon AnimatorThe Resident Dragon Team visit Santa to discuss their Christmas Lists.One of the great strengths of Reallusion's Cartoon Animator is you can create short, message based, animations within hours. Especially if you save yourself time by not creating all the artwork yourself and simply purchase ready made characters, props, and scenes from the Reallusion Content Store or Marketplace.With Christmas TET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-91519962424350220372023-11-29T10:30:00.206+10:302023-11-29T10:30:00.141+10:30The Lazy Animator Versus Garry Pye - Comparing Character Animation Workflow in Cartoon AnimatorBefore you get all excited and start yelling 'Fight! Fight!' that's not what's happening here. There is no long running feud coming to a head at this moment with an 'Animation-off' (if that's even a thing?).Garry Pye, Cartoon Animator Content Legend, and Reallusion's 2D Community Manager, recorded an excellent hour long webinar (excluding question time) called, Bring 2D Characters to Life TET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-51669013276454112592023-11-08T10:30:00.015+10:302023-11-08T10:30:00.131+10:30Using Avatar Maker with Cartoon Animator - Free Vector Cartoon Avatar Creator with Four Art StylesI'm always on the lookout for cartoon avatar makers of any kind, whether it be ones that 'cartoonify' your photo, or ones that let you build a cartoon likeness from a library of individual features. Free Avatar Maker falls into the latter category and can be used for making head and shoulder cartoon avatars.While it doesn't have an extensive library of character features (you may TET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-55021263472121813422023-10-25T10:30:00.016+10:302023-10-25T10:30:00.145+10:30The Family Guy Method - Animating Talking Hand Gestures in Cartoon AnimatorOnce you start getting into character animation you learn pretty quickly that people don't just speak with their mouths. Hand gestures and movements play a pretty important part of how people communicate too.The problem is, animating hand gestures and movements is extremely time consuming... and who knows what gestures and movements should be used and when?In Reallusion's Cartoon Animator I use TET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-19498512511588083092023-10-11T10:30:00.019+10:302023-10-31T22:59:21.225+10:30Featured Animator: Harrison Killian Fuses Sculpture, CGI, and Stop Motion to Blur the Line Between Animation and RealityHarrison Killian sculpting a character head for his animated short, Rider on the Storm.Residing on a mountaintop in Liberty, located in the Catskill Mountains of New York, and primarily self-taught, Harrison Killian is a musician, sculptor, animator, and the founder of Grateful Motion Studios which is currently producing an independent animated short film, ‘Rider On The Storm.’ TheTET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-46431542237474862592023-09-27T10:30:00.059+09:302023-09-27T10:30:00.147+09:30Moho 14 Released - Still the Best 2D Animation Software for Indy Animators on a BudgetMoho 14 Released.Regular readers know I am a Reallusion, Cartoon Animator advocate through and through. Hands down I would recommend Cartoon Animator 5 first over Lost Marble's Moho 14 to anyone who is just starting in 2D animation, is a team of one, or just needs to animate as quickly as possible.However, feature for feature, Moho is, arguably, the best 2D animation software for the rest of us TET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-71321339518120688382023-09-13T10:30:00.007+09:302024-02-03T23:43:15.615+10:30Six AI Audio Cleaning and Transcription Resources for Video and Animation Content CreatorsWhile AI applications may have been receiving a lot of bad press lately in the visual arts, there are definitely times when AI is a game changer, in a good way, for more mundane applications like audio cleaning and transcribing.Maybe there's some militant audio engineers or transcribers out there who just love what they do but the ability to give an audio file to an AI, and have it automatically TET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-49574855583104501962023-08-23T10:30:00.024+09:302023-08-23T10:30:00.141+09:30Eleven Mostly Free Comic Book/Strip Resources For Your Next Motion ComicCreated with Lywi.com Comic Maker.One really exciting use for Cartoon Animator and other animation software is to assist in the production of creating motion comics. If you're not familiar with motion comics just think of them as a kind of video comic book that typically features (but not always) all of the dialogue in each panel read by voice actors along with limited animation to make the stillTET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-59834448133762144642023-08-09T10:30:00.404+09:302023-08-09T10:30:00.155+09:30How to Create Whiteboard Animation in Reallusion's Cartoon Animator 5 Tutorial - Concepts, Video, and Project FilesThis animation technique allows the creation of whiteboard animations inside Cartoon Animator 5 without having to create frame by frame animation of your images being drawnSomething I've been thinking about for literal years is how to create whiteboard animations using Reallusion's Cartoon Animator to do the animation.Specifically, looking for an easy way that doesn't involve any kind of frame byTET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-44970385717793101922023-07-26T10:30:00.128+09:302023-07-26T10:30:00.138+09:30Can a Solo Animator Make an Animated Feature Film or TV Series?Series Creation Tip: If this is your first attemptat a series start small with two to four maincharacters and two or three sets that you canreuse each episode. My new series in development, Resident Dragon has fourcharacters and is set in a suburban home.Recently I was asked if a solo animator could make a feature film?The short answer is 'YES'. Logically, with enough time, you can achieve TET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-59439401442362546112023-07-18T13:58:00.000+09:302023-07-18T13:58:29.759+09:30XP-Pen Artist 12 (2nd Gen) Pen Display Drawing Tablet Review - Portable and Robust Quality Ideal for Sketching on the Go!XP-Pen's Artist 12 (2nd Gen) Pen Display Tablet.I've been looking for a more portable drawing solution for a while to work with my Samsung Galaxy Tab A, 8 inch, Android tablet, which is why, when XP-Pen invited me to collaborate on an animation project, I asked about trying their Artist 12 (2nd Gen) Pen Display Drawing Tablet.Does It Really Work With Android Devices?Having heard many of XP-Pen's TET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-53291922650285485892023-07-12T10:30:00.009+09:302023-07-12T10:30:00.159+09:30Inochi2D - Free Open Source 2D VTuber Avatar Rigging and Puppeteering Software (Part 2 - Inochi2D Session)In part one of my deep dive into the free VTuber software, Inochi2D, I focused mainly on Inochi2D Creator, which is used for rigging your character avatar in the correct file format for use with Inochi2D Session, the puppeteering part of the software.The two sides of the software are still very much in development and the documentation, particularly for Session, is very thin on the ground. To theTET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-29221821180319865722023-06-28T10:30:00.062+09:302023-06-28T10:30:00.140+09:30Mannequin: 2D Anime Character Avatar Generator For Illustrations, VTuber, Animation, and Game Development ProjectsMia and the Tourist Avatars created in Mannequin 2D Anime Character Generator. Background created with Leonardo.aiReaders of Animation and Video Life will know I love a character creator app. Specifically a 2D character creator app that I can use as a source for rigging animated characters in Reallusion's Cartoon Animator Software.In the course of exploring VTuber rigging and puppeteering TET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-88942556078942811672023-06-14T10:30:00.019+09:302023-07-05T12:19:29.959+09:30Inochi2D - Free Open Source 2D VTuber Avatar Rigging and Puppeteering Software (Part 1)Inochi2D Creator - Free Open Source VTuber Software.If you've been looking for a way to live perform as a 2D cartoon avatar on camera, whether it be for a live stream or for pre-recorded content like educational videos, then VTuber software is a low cost (or even no cost) option worth looking into.In my previous post, How to Become a VTuber - 2D and 3D Software for Creating and Controlling TET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-74532431251081649932023-05-27T10:30:00.013+09:302023-05-27T10:30:00.163+09:30How to Become a Virtual YouTuber (VTuber) - 2D and 3D Software for Creating and Controlling Your AvatarYoung TET VRoid Avatar in VSeeFace.In a previous YouTube video I demonstrated how you could use a webcam, Cartoon Animator and its MotionLive 2D Facial Capture system to create a virtual avatar that you could perform live during a live stream. Unfortunately the motion capture performance of this system is very average to say the least, and is even more expensive if you want to add hand motion TET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-12913768962607615262023-05-10T10:30:00.012+09:302023-05-10T10:30:00.147+09:30AE Juice Animated Backgrounds for Reallusion's Cartoon Animator, Adobe After Effects, and Other Video Editors.Do you find yourself spending too much time creating background elements for your animations or just settling for flat colors or a static gradient as a back drop for your explainer videos? For myself I often just don't have the time to put more effort into my backgrounds (or I'm just too much The Lazy Animator).Instant Animated BackgroundsAE Juice, who make animation presets, motion graphics, TET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-71403314170178509592023-04-26T10:30:00.024+09:302023-04-26T10:30:00.149+09:30Whose Art is This? Training an AI to Make Fun Cat Images in My Art Style Using Open Art's PhotoBooth AI WorkspaceAI image generation is a rapidly developing field. Currently a debate is going on about AI Art image generators being trained on practicing, professional artist works without their permission, allowing almost anyone to create images in those artist's styles without compensating the artists in any way at all. Not to mention, that most AI image generator output is generally defined, by the U.S. TET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-77248893272428652012023-04-05T10:30:00.022+09:302023-04-05T10:30:00.193+09:30Creating a 360 Head, Adding Spring Bones and Color Management - My Character Design Process for Puppet, Bone Rig 2D Animation in Reallusion's Cartoon Animator (Part 5 - Final)I realize writing a five part series over almost three months makes creating a G3-360 SVG vector character in Cartoon Animator 5 look like a long and drawn out process. However, I want to assure you that, once you've designed your character and divided up, or created the bare minimum of required sprites, the actual rigging process should maybe take an afternoon to a day at most - excluding TET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31985209.post-33514538832572537802023-03-22T10:30:00.048+10:302023-03-22T10:30:00.193+10:30Fixing the Rig - My Character Design Process for Puppet, Bone Rig 2D Animation in Reallusion's Cartoon Animator (Part 4)I wanted to start this installment of my series, where I document the process of creating my first ever, complete vector character for Cartoon Animator 5 using Inkscape, on a positive note. After much study and pouring over various templates I can confirm I'm not the issue. The Inkscape template is buggy, even the new ones... or maybe it's Inkscape itself?The reason I say this is, when you're TET (David Arandle)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10017963548130964043noreply@blogger.com0