I saw this thread... Motion of interconnected objects ...which reminded me of this thread... Hype Featured on the Mac App Store ...which mentions this hyper link...
...and then I was wondering if this "Feature Request" is already on the list. That's when I found this thread. 
Arise from your 629 day slumber!
Ideally, it would be great to setup characters like puppets. Then you could just grab an element / body part and move the character around.
If Hype did this, then I'm not sure that I would need CrazyTalk Animator. CrazyTalk Animator has lip-synch, but I think I could do that programmatically with JavaScript.
I've been waiting to see if CrazyTalk Animator 3 goes on sale again.
It recently went up in price. 