Does Character Artist 3 Support Face Masks?
kronovan
Newcomer
I'm wanting to make some masked Renaissance era characters - preferably masks like those worn in the Italian peninsula during festive occasions. From the CA3 product description page and all of the example videos I've viewed, there's no mention or showing of a face masks feature. So I'm wondering if such masks are in fact a feature that's available in CA3?
Comments
The vector artwork available in CA3 still from the older program version has the advantage that being a simpler style, it's a lot easier to draw your own additions, or even to amend the existing symbols to something closer to what you need. I've done this quite a lot myself, and as a not-really artist, it's actually not that hard to do in small pieces (something like adding or adjusting a feature on a weapon hilt or a staff head, for instance).
If you're suggesting using elements for drawing faces in CA3 to construct a mask instead, that might be possible, but would need a fair bit of drawing work to achieve, I suspect. The typical Italian Renaissance style masks seem to cover just the region from eyebrows to top lip at most (I'm no expert, but the online images suggest this at least), and I don't think CA3 will let you draw just part of a face using symbols. So, you'd have to do it with drawing tools, which is where the problems I mentioned regarding getting the drawing style to look right in my earlier posting stems from. It's much easier to do that in the vector style than the current-standard CA3 hand-drawn look, of course.
Import a png of the face/mask into Dioramas and work with it by tracing over the imported png/bmp.
Shame there's not a suitable non-vector mask symbol already in CA3 though, given the original query here.