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Motion Tests
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Motion Tests // Work in Progress
Post by jamesmc // May 8, 2006, 5:10pm
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Shades of Clutch Cargo Frank!
Clutch Cargo was an old cartoon that super-imposed a real persons lips onto cartoon figures. It look really odd with a cartoon face and big red lips moving around, not matching the rest of the cartoon face motion. :)
Very innovative Frank. Texture motion might open up a whole new rage. I could video tape my hand movements and attach them as a skin texture. er... maybe not. :) |
Post by LazeeGazzz // May 9, 2006, 12:25am
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http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/images/attach/wmv.gifcharcoalman.wmv (http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/attachment.php?attachmentid=1316&d=1147135569) (158.7 KB, view me)
Wow Frank, those new CA tools you're beta-testing are more technologically advanced than I thought! Must be a new retro-filter.:D
Its always a pleasure to see your wips Frank. Reminds me of the work of another Frank who kept a journal similar in nature to your posts: "...zer Mouth von Patient Eins vaz grafted onto Patient Zwei mit voll succesfulness but zer LippenPuckerUppen effect needs more effecktivness. Zer experimental data von Doktor Caligari wants der more tinkering mit. " - Baron Frankenstein, 1818. :p |
Post by frank // May 9, 2006, 3:05am
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Very innovative Frank. Texture motion might open up a whole new rage. I could video tape my hand movements and attach them as a skin texture. er... maybe not.
Hey, go for it! :) You would need to make an accompanying mask for the arm, I reckon.
- Baron Frankenstein, 1818
Ahh. That Frank. LOL!
Thanks, guys! |
Post by W!ZARD // May 10, 2006, 11:53pm
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Cool animation! I've often wondered about using textures for mouth motion - I imagine that another approach would be to make your mouth motions into an AVI and paint that onto the mouth area. I imagine that could be even easier than keyframing a series of static images but what would I know? I'm cetainly not an animation guy!
But a cool animation all the same! |
Post by frank // May 11, 2006, 2:28am
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I imagine that another approach would be to make your mouth motions into an AVI and paint that onto the mouth area. I imagine that could be even easier than keyframing a series of static images but what would I know?
I have tried this before and you are right, it is easier in some ways than keyframing the static images.
Basically you just bring the 2D mouth images into an NLE (Adobe Premiere, Vegas, etc.), load up your sound file, and place the mouth images on the timeline at the locations they occur in the sound.
The next steps would be to render that out to an uncompressed AVI and paint it on your character in trueSpace.
With this method you get exactly what you want (no blending between mouth shapes) BUT if you are in the middle of animating the character in trueSpace and decide you want to change a mouth image, you have to change it in the NLE and re-render.
Another cool thing about the NLE method is that you can use masks for different parts of the face. You can have the eye animation on one layer and mouth shapes on another, for instance. This is a lot easier than using texture masks and blending in trueSpace.
So yeah...it's a good idea, Wizard! :)
But a cool animation all the same!
Thanks! |
Post by frank // Jan 22, 2007, 7:15pm
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Test animation with dialog. This was done by hand - ShapeSwapper plugin isn't quite ready for actual use at this time.
www.frankladner.com/BigWeehaa2.wmv
"Hello...how 'bout I give you a big'a wehaaaa."
Did have some body movement w/ MotionStudio bones but had some strange issue with the teeth objects appearing outside the mouth and one mouth shape appearing behind the head when I moved the head bone. May try doing a boolean union of the teeth to the mouth to keep it one mouth object glued to the head. May yield less issues. |
Post by parva // Jan 22, 2007, 10:52pm
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:D that looks funny Frank.
Looks like these animated clay-figures. |
Post by RichLevy // Jan 22, 2007, 11:25pm
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:D bravo Frank!!!
very interesting, looking forward to seeing more from your plugin.
rich |
Post by Methusela // Jan 23, 2007, 1:13am
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Ahahaha, this looks great! Aardman would be proud! |
Post by chamaeleon // Jan 23, 2007, 4:06am
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Great job, Frank! :) I love the style. :) |
Post by prodigy // Jan 23, 2007, 4:47am
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Nice Job Frank!
Good for a music video clip... :jumpy:
Rendered in ???? |
Post by frank // Jan 23, 2007, 6:34am
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Thanks guys! Glad you like it.
Rendered in ????
Oops, sorry! It was animated and rendered in trueSpace 6.6. |
Post by Tiles // Jan 23, 2007, 7:38am
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Great work :) |
Post by frank // Jan 23, 2007, 8:25am
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Thanks, Tiles!
Or as they say in Hamburg - "danke".
;) |
Post by Chester Desmond // Jan 23, 2007, 9:12am
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Looks great! The technique is very effective and follows the words well. Hope we will get to play with the plugin when you're done |
Post by frank // Jan 23, 2007, 10:03am
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Thanks, Chester!
After watching it several times, I see some of the shapes should have been pushed a bit more. Maybe the "ahh" sounds should be bigger.
Plus I kinda set myself up for difficulty when I recorded the dialog. The middle bit has a lot going on in a short amount of time, so I had to try and be impressionistic about it, not keying each sound but the overall idea. Even still it looks funny to me.
I think the next one will be better. |
Post by GraySho // Jan 24, 2007, 9:28am
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So when can we expect your first tests in German? :p |
Post by frank // Jan 25, 2007, 9:04am
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So when can we expect your first tests in German? :p
Wait... I thought "weehaa" was German. :) |
Post by chamaeleon // Jan 25, 2007, 9:42am
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Wait... I thought "weehaa" was German. :)
You're confusing it with "weehää". |
Post by frank // Jan 26, 2007, 3:43am
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Ohhhhhh. I see.
:)
Danke, chamaeleon! |
Post by parva // Feb 6, 2007, 7:55am
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As I saw that I must think on you Frank.
I think it's the same like you had in mind with the blending right?
L-Brush (http://www.lbrush.com/) |
Post by rj0 // Feb 8, 2007, 5:23pm
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Frank,
Great animations! Much enjoyed!
rj |
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