CrazyTalk7 App Reviews

The program looks like it will be awesome, and when you are working in it you have so many great tools, but every time I click save it crashes the program. I will update my review when the software works, but right now I feel like I just spent $30 and too much time on a program that doesnt work.

I imported a photo & took the time to place the points & animate, it was great, but when I tried to save, the app crashed. I am only interested in using this app for photos of my own, but unless the work can be saved, the app is useless to me. Please fix the bugs & I will then give you 5 stars.

DO NOT INSTALL Crazy Talk if you have upgraded to Mountain Lion from Lion. It crashed Aperture and iPhoto while they were updating their photo libraries. Now both crash every time I try to open them and Ive lost ALL my photos. Ive deleted all the Crazy Talk files and still it crashes photo apps big time. AVOID!!

Ive been using this for a few days and the ability to tweak your own drawings is impressive. The face fitting portion alone can lead to incredibly expressive animations. The ability to tweaze the vowels and consonants in the lip sync section is unbelievable. Imports into FCPX ready files in no time. Very happy. And yup, it crashes whenever you try to save it at the end. After nosing around in some forums, I found that if you go to the project in the Content Manager (on the right side) and click the plus symbol to save as, then use the file extension .ct7project after the name you give it, everything works fine. You shouldnt have to do this after shelling out this much dough, but there you have it. Hope that helps some people. This issue aside, it works great and is fairly intuitive. After messing around with some simple shapes, I was very encouraged by what this app is capable of. Cant wait for Animator and iClone next!

tried this on my MBP and iMac. Each time I try to save the project the program crashes on OSX 10.8.2 NICE! Sent tech support ticket and received email reply that they will get back to me in 2-3 days! Really nice!

I have used some of the previous versions of this tool in the past but they did not quite deliver what I was after. When I saw this new version and all the excellent features that had been added I was excited to see Reallusion starting to deliver the quality apps I expect from them. CrazyTalk7 is an excellent tool.

Crashes way too often for the price. I also dont think the faces animate well to voice input. The wire frame set up of new faces is easy and does work well.

I bought this to do some animation work with students and it turned out to be MUCH more fun than I expected! It is so easy to use and tweak to sync the audio to the lips. I have been making short practice animations and everyone has enjoyed them. I have so many things to make talk I have to end this review and get back to the program! I would give it 5 stars, but it does crash often.

Ive used Crazytalk Pro for Windows for years now, and its so much faster now on the Mac. Everything seems to work better, especially motion clips. For what this app does, its a steal.

Importing photos to use as the heads of your characters is a superb touch and works like a dream. You can drag and drop as wells as use timelines to make animated characters quickly and easily. All round I personally think this is the best 2D animation software I have ever seen or used.

Hopefully the latest update will resolve the instability issues, however the software at its core is INCREDIBLE. It can be fun to use with photos, but I think its true power shines when being able to quickly animated illustrated characters. I was able to create a wonderful animation that would have taken hours if not days to illustrate and lip-sync otherwise. Hoping They port more of their products to the mac.

Ive watched all the tutorials. Still find the interface impossible. How do you zoom in and out? When you save a project, why is it not saved? If you save it before closing/quiting, why is the audio track missing when re-opened? Frustrating app. Plus it crashes! Very frustrating app. Hoped for more.

First up, this app is excellent and I highly recommend getting this software. Secondly I have to say I loved the scene manager. The interactive props work really well and make the whole process of creating good-looking animations easier.

I met one of the creators of Crazytalk from Realallusion at a tradeshow about a decade ago. Crazytalk has come a long way since. The mac version is great and Im having a LOT of fun with it. I have made and saved about a dozen projects so far with no crashes or problems reported by oher reviewers. I did used to use this when I was PC based. But it was at least 4-5 years ago. Back then, however, it was also solid. The new facial control features are superb! The process for setting up a new face is quick and easy. I do find the built in faces largely unusable as the 3D faces are a bit too creepy. I would love to see more vocal tweak settings, I have to resort to using another voice altering program usually. Thats being overl picky, however. For the money CrazyTalk is a crazy good value and crazy good fun!!

Even small children can have great success with this. Strongly recommend.

Very fun little app! Its very easy to use after watching a few short tutorials at the vendors website, and the vendor is adding more tutorials all the time. We have a blast making our family pets talk - the kids love it!

I was extremely happy with the support I got from Reallusion for some issues I had with this app. I emailed support and their response was fast and I got the issues resolved very quickly. I advise anyone experiencing issues to do the same.

When I first downloaded the app I was getting a few issues as some of the other comments talked about. Reallusion offered a patch for these, I installed it and all is now great! No more crashes or problems. Great App!

This program is amazing. My kids and I are using it on OS X 10.8.2 and it works extremely well. We have been using Anime Pro which is a good program but somewhat difficult. Crazy Talk on the other hand is really simple. We had home pictures animated in a few minutes after downloading the program. We are now learning all of the other features. This was a great purchase.

This app is crazy fun and well worth the price. To think that I can do in 10 minutes what it would have taken an animator weeks to do in the past. This is a fun and very entertaining app for kids and adults, anyone who enjoys animation without the hassle. My 11 year old son and I tried other animation apps that used stop motion, frame by frame, but found them to be too much work and too much time. With Crazy Talk we were up and running in minutes. After a trip to a sandcastle contest at the beach we were able to animate several of the sculptures and send the talking sculptures to friends and family. I also found it a fun tool for work to add some zip to my presentations. The comment that I get most often is, "Howd you do that?" My son cant wait til his next science project to have his Minecraft creature narrate the show. We tried it with our pictures, pictures of the dog, Mount Rushmore, Lego characters, even a sand sculpture. It works great. This app does everything it says in the online video tutorials…and more. Its worth the money.