Ability to create our own characters with a character creation tool. Change height, the color of skin, hairstyles, clothing, accessories with a library of prefabricated items (Think of 'The Sims' game).
I believe this would save lots of time for the dev team in the future!
I'd love to at least have basic character creation options (e.g., hair color, skin tone, body size, child, teen, adult, elderly, professional vs. casual clothing options).
Apologies - I added this idea separately. I did search for similar ideas beforehand. Anyway, I think that, while this would take a lot of work in development, once down it would exponentially extend the character universe.
This feature would make the biggest difference in the world to this product. Just being able to create a basic character from a set of body types and add skin and hair colour and clothing colour would be so much more useful than having pre-made characters, and time saving for the future. This would also mean that you could have two or more characters from the same demographic interact with each other e.g. two nurses or two doctors, without having a mirrored character. Really, a user could make any of your characters into a nurse or doctor if they were able to add a stethoscope. Like wise, being able to change the characters hair colour would give you endless variation--including changing the age of characters, currently the only senior citizen in the set is Santa!
Yes, I think it'd be a huge difference.
A character evolves in a story, and most character don't look the same at home and at work or other places... Parents and kids need to look alike somehow, so we need to be able to make new characters.
That's a brilliant Idea (at least the option of changing skin color for ethnicity and diversity)
I actually wanted to get more ethnic diversity (dark skinned business woman or man) - but this feature will negate this
if the character is vector based and layer based (which i suspect it is) it should be possible to assign different colors or even change clothes of a character
This would be awesome! I was just looking through the requests to see if someone has requested what I wanted which was a lighter skinned dark haired woman with pants or capris. Only the African American women have pants. All of the asian/white/hispanic women have dresses.
hey check this out my son helped me make a characters mouth move. Didn't take us long he created a mouth gif and he put it in the scene https://youtu.be/-4K9Sjf5aLU I think he can add hair and other things too but I wish it all came with this.
I think the ability to change / customize characters is really needed. Currently, almost all created videos are lookalikes with the same persons waving, holding phones etc. At least having the possibility of changing the color of hair, skin, clothes would help.
Agreed! I was a bit disappointed to see how few body types are available-- all of the characters are tall and slender, for example. Women are primarily in dresses... It would be nice to be able to create/ modify characters to get away from all of the stereotypical characters.
I need it . It will make the app awesome. I like to change the dress and hair styles.
Even changing the hair style looks like a its a different character :)
Yes please, I feel that’s what’s lacking with toonly currently as other apps allow you to do more with Characters ie create character and customise it plus would be great to have them have lip synch ability also in future. Thanks guys and keep up the good work.
But if it is a creation tool, then others will have the probability to have a the same one with you just like now. Your suggestion is great but do not fully solve the problem of everyone has their custom character representing his Company.
I have another suggestion here which require Toonly to help us to create with a fee. Please vote -https://www.toonly.com/requests/home/idea/708/custom-character
This is a real must have feature that would open up so many more possibilities. I know this is a hard feature to develop so even a simple editor to change the skin, hair and clothes colours on the existing characters would be a real leap forward. A hair and clothes designer could be added after that! Thanks for a great product :)
Like Sarah said : Just being able to create a basic character from a set of body types and add skin and hair colour and clothing colour would be so much more useful than having pre-made characters, and time saving for the future. This would also mean that you could have two or more characters from the same demographic interact with each other e.g. two nurses or two doctors, without having a mirrored character. Really, a user could make any of your characters into a nurse or doctor if they were able to add a stethoscope. Like wise, being able to change the characters hair colour would give you endless variation
This would be absolutely incredible. I know many others who would purchase this product for this very reason as it could represent them exactly without actually having to face a camera!
I think it would be the ideal and most awesome update for toonly! Please do this!!! And don’t forget to put possibility to create japanese characters (man, woman and childs) !
100%.... so far none of the characters available fit our charities demographic so a waste of money to date until this kind of development happens. Sooner than later we hope.
Can we at minimum get an update on this feature. It has the most votes and was suggested over six months ago. Toonly has a limited character base and this is even more narrow when you look at race and gender (which is a little offensive). This lack of diversity makes this wonderful app nearly useless to individuals who serve certain demographics. While Toonly states that it takes time to build more characters - it would do much more for the tool if Toonly gave us the tools to essentially build are own characters by changing basic things such as skin tone and hair color at a very minimum, and the ability to change clothes. As it is now, many of us don't have the diversity in characters we need for our business and all of our videos look alike. If you need a black professional woman, you only have one choice. Not cool! Its time for Toonly to make some headway on this.
Nothing new to add, other than just to restate how much of a game-changer such a feature would be for Toonly as a competitive advantage over other animation platforms.
Body type, short limbs vs long limbs, eye colour, facial hair, hair color, clothing etc. Similiar to a lot of video games when it comes to creating the main player's avatar.
We‘d like to use a Memoji style editor to tweak the characters. If I can make characters look like our actual presenters, they’ll be happier / an easy sell if we want to use toonly to create ondemand workshops and presentations. This seems obvious and unfortunately lacking.
This idea is gonna be a game changer and will make Toonly light years ahead of competition. I believe people will still buy this tool even if you raise the price of the app - this feature will justify it. But please don't raise prices lol! :D
This way you could rename your characters, which are currently offensive. Is there a difference between an African American Businessman and a Zimbabwean Businessman? Why does your Native American Man have red hair? Get out of the identity politics game and just make Man 1, 2, 3, etc. with different body types that can be assigned shades of skin color and editable clothes.
So I was *just* about to buy this software, literally sent it to my business partner for consideration. However, we cannot purchase without the ability to make ourselves. We are PoC with unique hairstyles that are hoping to use animation on our youtube channel. Was *this* close to purchasing, but this was a deal-breaker
The ability to create the characters instead of pre-made ones will be a deal breaker for many users. Doesn't have to be as complex as the ones in Animaker 2.0 and just as someone else here suggested, the basic feature to change skin colour, hair colour and clothes colour from existing characters would already make this more useful by leaps and bounds.
The ability to create new characters, akin to the way you create your avatar for an MMO, would be amazing!!! Especially if the character creation studio also had the ability to import custom graphic items to be included in building the character! If this included the ability to import existing animation and to edit or create new animation, it would be fantastic!!!
Even people are adding customised characters as object and using with so much complications for movements. Creating/adding characters in default library with save a lot of time and shall help non technical people to use it conveniently. Requesting toonly team to please do this help.
I think this would save a lot of time and hardship of the developers aswell. I think this is must, as almost every one is in the need of different characters.
Well imagine creating a character looked like you by very basic editing, like skin tone, body structure, facial hair, hair styles and accessories that can be added. with this feature toonly will become staple of every office. and with preset ques i feel its doable
I love to create own Character. Also Toonly would prefer it, since it will save time of Toonly developers to think and create new characters.
This feature will put Toonly on No 1 position and Toonly will have double customers.
This would absolutely be amazing! If we had the ability to customize the characters as stated above with the click of a button for the shades/colors available for each option: skin color, body type, hair color/style: hair down, in a bun, ponytail, braid, spiked, combover, clothing options: tops: tanks, tshirt, long sleeve, jackets, Hoodies, bottoms: shorts, capris, leggings/jeans, dresses, suits. Shoes: barefoot, sneakers, heels, sandals/slides/flip flops, Boots: ankle/ mid/tall/work boots... maybe even some extra accessories: bows, scarves, watches, hats (baseball/SnapBack/beanies/ etc..), bicycle helmet, motorcycle helmet.. etc. I believe if these were options, everyone could really take their Toony to the next level being able to showcase the time of year/weather or work/daily activities specifically according to their wardrobes would really be beneficial.
This would absolutely be amazing! If we had the ability to customize the characters as stated above with the click of a button for the shades/colors available for each option: skin color, body type, hair color/style: hair down, in a bun, ponytail, braid, spiked, combover, clothing options: tops: tanks, tshirt, long sleeve, jackets, Hoodies, bottoms: shorts, capris, leggings/jeans, dresses, suits. Shoes: barefoot, sneakers, heels, sandals/slides/flip flops, Boots: ankle/ mid/tall/work boots... maybe even some extra accessories: bows, scarves, watches, hats (baseball/SnapBack/beanies/ etc..), bicycle helmet, motorcycle helmet.. etc. I believe if these were options, everyone could really take their Toony to the next level being able to showcase the time of year/weather or work/daily activities specifically according to their wardrobes would really be beneficial.
I am structuring a significant Toonly animation proposal for a large online educational firm, and they have asked if Toonly characters could be created specifically for their two main instructors, who are seen in much of their live video courseware. They would provide model caricature illustrations (see attached sample) for each instructor and pay for the creation of custom Toonly characters, which would have all of the animations and features of other Toonly characters.
That would be a game changer for toonly if added as a feature and can then easily compete with the likes of vyond and other industry leading animation software!
This would be great. I think it would also open this up to more markets if you could for instance create a pregnant character or a character with a baby in her arms.
Yes, pretty please, this would be awesome! It would also save the creators time as one character can be changed to different ethnicities wearing different outfits to be an office professional, teacher, doctor, police officer, etc.
It is so important to be inclusive in showing diversity in characters and this would be the best way to do it.
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It would take away the need for creating all the special requests like military persons. Because I would simply add a com pattern as clothing and it would be done. Same for firefighters, police, etc.
This would be a total win for this application. No limits. Creating our own characters would enable us to do whatever and it would reduce the amount of requests regarding characters.
Since the competition also offers these features as a Character builder, I highly recommend implementing this ASAP!
It can be as simple as adding both one basic/vanilla male and female skin with adjustable/selectable height and skintones, with a set of different outfits to choose from.
This could solve a lot of problem...I need Japanese characters with a variety of skins...kimonos, samurai, ninja, school girl/boy, business man, office lady, and much more...there are too many video games out there with custom characters for this NOT to be a thing...we should be able to create everything from facial feature to hair style to physical traits (tall, skinny, fat, physically fit, etc.) to a host of clothing options. Sorry...but again...this is a no-brainer in the "modern" age.
Right. Because I want character models with bigger body frame especially on the arms and legs like the comparison image below.
https://imgur.com/dfrWWG6
Looking to have a more presentable character with this update if ever implemented.
This would be fantastic idea, maybe uploading character sets. As an example upload character parts e.g. arms, legs, facial expressions to use for animation.
Please add this but also a custom animation creator, I think there are some missing poses a very important one is for example an animation were the model walks and talks at the same time like showing something, like a presentator
Yes, this would be great, being able to create, edit, and import characters would be very useful. Especially if they could walk, run lip synch etc. Bones would be fun too.
This would be amazing! I've noticed that some similar web-based programs offer a similar feature, so this would help Toonly stay competitive with other services! It would open up so many more possibilities as well!
Me encantaría sería excelente que se agregue en las actualizaciones y que nos llegue a los que ya hemos comprado el producto. Estaba tratando de creear algo y me estaban cobrando por la serie de plantillas. Sé que me falta capacitarme más me sorprendió que mis posibilidades como consumir sean mínimas
It's a source of great frustration that all of the "professional" characters (doctors, vet, etc.) are white. We work with a very diverse area where over 300 languages are spoken, and the ability to adjust characters to fit our inclusion requirements would be very helpful.
Hello, Is there any update on this request? I can see 1015 users that are requesting this feature (as up today).
Please let us know when are you going to release a character creation tool. We can share results and go through a validation process on your side. I think we all will be able to collaborate on expanding the character list. Thank you!
Every user requires for it. Well, can anyone help me on my idea? I'd like to see the company offer promotion to sell both Toonly & Doodly with a special lifetime promotion (https://www.toonly.com/requests/home/idea/9442/offer-a-nice-promotion-toonly-doodly). Thank you for your kindly support :D