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Cartoon and Animation Video creators - Please Help

by KenJ
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Hi guys and girls. I am starting a project that would lend itself to animated/cartoon videos.
In fact this medium would be just about perfect for it, if I can find a way of making numerous videos quickly and easily.

I have looked at GoAnimate and Xtranormal and find the examples somewhat amateur. (I looked at Mixit too but that is only avaliable in the US. I am in the UK)
Is there a product out there that would allow text to animation video with decent results?

Some examples of what you have achieved would be great too.

Thanks KenJ
#animation #cartoon #creators #video
  • Profile picture of the author THK
    Do you have any examples of what you have in mind?

    If you are going to use a tool to create large number of videos fairly quickly, you might have to be a little flexible on quality. You said Go Animate is a little amateurish for your need, that made me curious what quality you are looking for.

    Tanvir
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    • Profile picture of the author KenJ
      Originally Posted by THK View Post

      Do you have any examples of what you have in mind?

      If you are going to use a tool to create large number of videos fairly quickly, you might have to be a little flexible on quality. You said Go Animate is a little amateurish for your need, that made me curious what quality you are looking for.

      Tanvir
      Thank you for your reply.

      I have not seen what i am looking for exactly. I am hoping it exists somewhere.

      What I am looking for is a voice to camera type video with the voice presented as a cartoon character. If you remember the MAD magazine guy then I am looking for a video/animated version of him.
      All I want to do is type in the words and hopefully the "voice to camera" will come out as an animated video.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kurt
        Originally Posted by KenJ View Post

        Thank you for your reply.

        I have not seen what i am looking for exactly. I am hoping it exists somewhere.

        What I am looking for is a voice to camera type video with the voice presented as a cartoon character. If you remember the MAD magazine guy then I am looking for a video/animated version of him.
        All I want to do is type in the words and hopefully the "voice to camera" will come out as an animated video.
        You can give Crazy Talk a try...although you will need to do a little more than just "type", you'll need to tell the program where the eyes, nose and mouth are...

        CrazyTalk - Facial and 2D Animation Software
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        • Profile picture of the author KenJ
          Originally Posted by Kurt View Post

          You can give Crazy Talk a try...although you will need to do a little more than just "type", you'll need to tell the program where the eyes, nose and mouth are...

          CrazyTalk - Facial and 2D Animation Software
          Thanks Kurt

          That is exactly what I was looking for. The only trouble is I will have to buy a mac to run it on. (It's not a problem)

          KenJ
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          • Profile picture of the author Kurt
            Originally Posted by KenJ View Post

            Thanks Kurt

            That is exactly what I was looking for. The only trouble is I will have to buy a mac to run it on. (It's not a problem)

            KenJ
            Hey Ken...

            It runs on a Windoze Machine...I have it running on my Win 7 at this very moment.
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            • Profile picture of the author Kurt
              PS...The one problem with Crazy Talk is that it uses system voices. At this time, Win 7 only has a single (female) voice installed. This problem isn't limited to just Crazy Talk, but rather any text to speech program running in Windows 7.

              You can install Crazy Talk on an older machine or use something like VMWare with Windows XP installed to get more system voices.

              You can use an online text to speech tool, download it and import it into CrazyTalk.

              Another option is to record an audio of your voice and import it into CrazyTalk.
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              • Profile picture of the author KenJ
                Originally Posted by Kurt View Post

                PS...The one problem with Crazy Talk is that it uses system voices. At this time, Win 7 only has a single (female) voice installed. This problem isn't limited to just Crazy Talk, but rather any text to speech program running in Windows 7.

                You can install Crazy Talk on an older machine or use something like VMWare with Windows XP installed to get more system voices.

                You can use an online text to speech tool, download it and import it into CrazyTalk.

                Another option is to record an audio of your voice and import it into CrazyTalk.
                I will have to do that as I want a male voice. Thanks for the info.

                KenJ
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  • Profile picture of the author prbindia
    If you try to automate your process then you have to do little compromise with quality, I would rather recommend you to hire some freelancer

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    • Profile picture of the author Kurt
      IMO, it's the Goanimate license/TOS that eliminates using it and not the quality. Anyone considering Goanimate needs to read the license, as it's not very friendly.
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      • Profile picture of the author KenJ
        Originally Posted by Kurt View Post

        IMO, it's the Goanimate license/TOS that eliminates using it and not the quality. Anyone considering Goanimate needs to read the license, as it's not very friendly.
        I agree that goanimate license is a bit limiting . It feels like they are covering their own back rather than their users. They need to negotiate better with the sources they use.
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  • Profile picture of the author I.M.Retired
    I don't think this is what you are looking for, but I'm going to post it just in case it might be of interest for future projects. The iPad has some interesting possibilities:

    Using The iPad as a Recordable, Wireless Whiteboard - Mac Sage
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