Puppet tool feasibility or rather, how to animate an animal talking!


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Puppet tool feasibility or rather, how to animate an animal talking!
by Kevin Dearing on May 28, 2008 at 5:10:33 pm

Hi all,
Ever since I bought AE I've been wondering if it could be used to animate a dog talking like so many of those commercials out there today. Been meaning to tinker around to see what I could do with either the Puppet tool or the Liquify effect but have two problems:

1) Can't get my Golden Retriever puppy to sit still long enough to get some workable footage

2) Don't really have the time anyway

So, just a general question / topic for discussion - anyone think AE is a solution for this and if so, how would you go about it?

Thanks in advance!

--KTFA

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Re: Puppet tool feasibility or rather, how to animate an animal talking!
by Ron Coy on May 28, 2008 at 7:03:05 pm

most of the time, it's done with 3D. They animate part of the dog (his mouth) and composite that with the footage of the dog.

I don't know how you would make it work convincingly without a way to manipulate the lips and teeth

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Re: Puppet tool feasibility or rather, how to animate an animal talking!
by Kevin Dearing on May 28, 2008 at 7:13:00 pm

Makes a lot of sense.. Guess I'll have to get better with Blender if I want to do this someday!

Thanks Ron!

--KTFA

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Re: Puppet tool feasibility or rather, how to animate an animal talking!
by Itamar Kool on May 29, 2008 at 8:53:55 am

I once made a parrot in live footage talk, using the CC split plug in.
I used an expression to link the opening of the mouth to the soundtrack.

Kool En De Anderen
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Re: Puppet tool feasibility or rather, how to animate an animal talking!
by Kevin Dearing on May 29, 2008 at 12:55:39 pm

Cool - I'll check it out - good thing for me is that, at this point in my life, this is only a hobby - so most of what I do will be ok (perhaps even funnier) if it's a little cheesy. And if I try this for a video, it'll be something funny. But then again, I am considering getting back into video production work - I miss it too much...

--KTFA

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Re: Puppet tool feasibility or rather, how to animate an animal talking!
by Frank Thomas on May 31, 2008 at 2:55:43 am

You could always try the "Mr Ed" technique.

Place a large "glob" of peanut butter in the mouth of your puppy. Shoot the scenes of the puppy trying to get the peanut butter off his tongue and inner cheeks.

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Re: Puppet tool feasibility or rather, how to animate an animal talking!
by Gene Gemperline on May 31, 2008 at 10:21:41 pm

Might this be a job for Motion Morph?

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