Character Artist Overview

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Character Artist (CA) is an add-on product for CC3 that enables you to create attractive full-length portraits of the characters and humanoid monsters in your game. The portraits can then be exported for use with character sheets, added to CC3 drawings, made into counters, or card stand-up figures. Character artist also includes symbols for a wide range of monsters, treasure and magical effects. Finally, Character Artist includes utilities for creating and editing symbol catalogs.

If you can’t see the CA menus (the Character and Catalog menus) on the menu bar, select the CA icon image\CA.gif or select Character Artist from the File menu.
Select the Hammer icon image\tools.gif if you can’t see the Toolbars.

Creating Character portraits

·   Choosing a suitable character template and start a new drawing.image\buttonarrow.gif

·   Selecting the character race and sex image\buttonarrow.gif

·   Building the character from symbols in the body part catalogsimage\buttonarrow.gif

·   Varying the symbol colors image\buttonarrow.gif

·   Using the re-ordering icons to make sure that the body parts are displayed in the correct orderimage\buttonarrow.gif

·   Creating humanoid monsters.image\buttonarrow.gif

·   Adding shadows or silhouettes to your figures.image\buttonarrow.gif

Using the portraits

·   Creating symbol libraries of characters.image\buttonarrow.gif

·   Adding portraits to character sheets.image\buttonarrow.gif

·   Creating counters and stand-up card figuresimage\buttonarrow.gif

Using the Catalog features

·   Overview of Catalog featuresimage\buttonarrow.gif

·   Using the Catalog menuimage\buttonarrow.gif