Description
CharToon is a user-friendly program suite for designing and animating 2 1/2D drawings, especially cartoon-like faces using movable, deformable lines and shapes. It consists of three components. With Face Editor a face can be designed by copying and adapting shapes chosen from a palette. Then with the graphical user interface of the Animation Editor the user defines time curves to animate the components of the face. The animations are stored as ascii files, which are the input for FacePlayer to play the animated face in real-time. CharToon is written in Java and can be used on different platforms.
Example movies
Animated gif of Moose
Animated gif of Lilly
Animated gif of Nine Faces
Animated gif of Magician
Download moose (14Mb)
Download lilly (11Mb)
Download ninef (12Mb)
Download Magician (Part, 7Mb)
* composing quickly `Saturday morning' animations, commercials, moving logos;
* 2D avatars on web pages that react to dynamic data in subtle ways without the use of pre-made gif images;
* simple teleconferencing applications, coupled with face tracking;
* (re-)using and processing captured facial motion.
