talking animals

Hi all,

first I wanna say that creative cow is a really great comunity. I learned a lot bye reading the AE articles and tutorials here!! I hope to give back a bit in future.. =)

Now my little question, im still looking for a nice and "easy" way to animate the mouth/face of animals with a natural organic movement.

For the beginning with stills ;)

At the moment, I figured out 2 ways for me, to get start with..

Way 1)..I`ll model the part of the face in 3d and animate an compose it later.. hmm easy to do and after cameratracking it will work with a movieclip too... but has not much to do with AE, I think ;)

Way 2)..I take the animalstill and cut it into a lot of layers and deform and move them to fit with the sound of the voice.. a bit like Mister Aharon Rabinowitz do this in his tutorial with the smiley-guy.

Maybe anyone here has another good idea to do it in a better way =)

Thanks & Greets

Ulf

You might check out Crazy Talk, it's not perfect but I have 3.5, it's 4.5 now so better. I used it to animate an Illustrator Bigfoot. There is a trail version and the only learning curve is fitting the face with the morph line, then it will lip-sync to your audio or text (synth voice then).

http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/

Hi guys,

thanks for your tips! =)

I think I`ll take a look on it.. and will try to figure out a nice mix of all this stuff =)

thanks for all your comments!

Greets

Ulf

Hi Aharon,

your tutorial was one of the first is was watching, but you are right it`s not much organic but maybe a good base for a talking animal setup.

I think I will make a mix of technique`s, a bit 3D, a bit AE and a bit whatever... ;)

Thanks

Ulf




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