Cartoon Animator 4 supports alpha transparency, as well, making it ideal for logo work, motion graphics, and even web design, in some cases. After your animation is complete, it can be sent dynamically to After Effects where the work may continue.

If Photoshop is the program that you prefer to design in, PSD files can be incorporated into a Cartoon Animator 4 workflow seamlessly. The Mask (yellow on Color Art) is a coloured shape using the Line Art's Mouth Line's stroke.Cartoon Animator all in one for video production - one continuous line from creating characters until post-production or film editing.

I copy-paste the Vector Line from one drawing to the other to ensure it's the same. The Mouth Line (black on Line Art) should be the same shape for both Bottom Lip and Top Lip. In my rig there is the Mouth Line and the Lips, the Lips will mostly be ignored in this tutorial, as they are a unique shape that is purely aesthetic and ha no baring on the cutting. The Top Lip and Bottom Lip have deformers to pose the shape of the mouth, both open and closed. This rig's mouth is made up of 4 components: Mouth insides, the lips, and the lines. Let me start by introducing the rig I used for this, as each rig is different. I will not be going through the basics on this, as this tutorial is more for the intent of having a method for side view-mouth cutting away the head, as I could never find a quick reminder of the method on Google. Part of the reason I typed this up is from seeing a lot of disappointment on the TBH Forums on people's inability to find a solution for this. If you've found this tutorial, then my SEO might have succeeded, because for the life of me I have never been able to find a tutorial for this myself, be it Toon Boom Forums or YouTube. Usually because the rig I was working on was different to the last one. There's been various times when I figured it out, and then always found myself at square one when I tried again. I kept running into the issue of wanting to cut away the head for a Side/Profile view of a rig. Gosh, I hope I am able to adequately explain this one! If it's not clear, feel free to comment for further info.

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