Sorry to miss yesterday's class/discussion. Friday afternoons are always crunch time for me, I'm always finishing up my next video. But I did want to share my latest. The animation isn't done with AI (I am still proudly using Cartoon Animator!), and the characters were designed and rigged by artists, but I did use AI to create most of the backgrounds/scenes in this one. (A few backgrounds from real artist - the side view of the dock, for example.) That saves me a lot of time and I'm happy with the results. I will continue to refine the look of the camp settings. I also experimented with some AI voice generation. The main characters (Dewey, Zack, Maya, Bob, the Moose, and one of the girl campers) are performed by my daughter and me, but I used typecast(dot)ai to create the voices for the rest of the young campers in the first story. I have mixed feelings about the results, let me know what you think. https://youtu.be/jyxR5aDvj0g?si=NcJEVtmtmsJnIzOl

Id love to get some good recommendations on consistent reputable AI resources. Character productions, Mouth and Eye Sprites, Image generators, story editors, scene generators, programing ai, and especially any ai that has vector production capabilities. What are your favorite AI links and what do you like best about them? Any you recommend avoiding?

In Cartoon Animator, they have this feature of Motion Capture. But it only captures the face, to animate the whole body, you need expensive motion capture equipment, like Rokoko for $2000. With AI, all of that becomes irrelevant. Look at how easily I did these 4 demonstrations with a few clicks, using the same prompt: "Match the reference video exactly (timing, moves and audio) while keeping the new character unchanged in appearance, outfit, and identity." Learn how to animate full stories with AI without wasting credits, and without having to reprompt again and again: AI Animation Masterclass

Im curious how many "from scratch" creators we have on here :) Also, id love to here about what some of your favorite premade characters are and why. Im always looking to see what others create and looking to learn from quality designs.

Im working through a few of the courses right now and was wondering if when the resources/project files are included, if it gives the option for him to provide us multiple formats, if there was a way we could get the other formats. Ive noticed this in a few courses. For a specific example, Im working on the Rigging Mastery in CTA course and working on the robot character (approx lesson 70) and I see there is a psd provided in the project files, but he goes back and forth in illustrator and photoshop and it shows him using an illustrator file but its not provided. How can I get the initial illustrator file instead of having to use the photoshop file?