Another tutorial on Anime Studio Pro 8 by Chad Troftgruben. This is is about the Character Wizard, a very powerful PRO feature for rapid cartoon creation.

In the Anime Studio Character Wizard you start with a preset (one out of Man, Woman, Boy, Girl, Creature, Bighead, Manequin) and then adjust a multitude of parameters to get a unique ready-to-use character! Most parameters are adjusted with slides and you can see the result immediately while you move these slides. The presets are starting points that set the parameters to defined values but also have some effect on the possible assets. I.e. for some reason you can only chose “head prop” for the “creature” preset.

Parameters

Body Parameters

• Proportions: Height, torso height, leg length, head height, belly width
• Arms: Arm length, shoulder width, arm width, arm muscles, hand length, hand style (i.e. toon hands with 4 fingers)
• Legs: Hip width, leg width, leg muscles, foot length and finally feet style (i.e. barefoot or shoes)

Face Parameters

• Eyes, mouth and nose can be selected from a list and then adjusted in size and position, for the head shape this is also possible but you can create an own head shape as well with the head parameters.
• Head: Head style (presets like various anime shapes as well as animals and a robot OR generic, which means you can adjust the head shape with the following parameters), neck width, head top, head middle, head bottom
• Eyes: Eyes style, size, height, spacing
• Mouth: Mouth style, size, height
• Nose: Nose style, size, height
• Head Prop: Prop (special feature), size, height
• Other: Horizontal adjustement, vertical adjustment

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