Talking house

jhbmw007 · Post by **jhbmw007** » Fri May 23, 2008 4:06 pm

Here I animated a talking house:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swhh3qnKolI

synthsin75 · Post by **synthsin75** » Fri May 23, 2008 7:25 pm

Nice lip-sync with the door and stairs. When it started I wondering how you were going to pull that off. The only thing I'd change is I'd probably limit the lip-sync phonemes. The Preston Blair set often looks jumbled when characters are talking fast.

Just my opinion. Nice work!

jhbmw007 · Post by **jhbmw007** » Fri May 23, 2008 8:42 pm

Good advice. I use Papagayo so I'll have to remember to take out some of the phonemes on the faster parts, or tell my voice actors to slow down lol

synthsin75 · Post by **synthsin75** » Fri May 23, 2008 9:40 pm

What I've done was strategically reuse some of the phonemes with different names. That way I could still use Papagayo without any fuss.

Just looked up an old file. I used the same mouths for FV and MBP and rest, E and etc, O and U and WQ. This reduced the phoneme set from ten in the Preston Blair set to five. It's still a pretty convincing lip-sync, and not so much like a strobe light on crack.

ToonLifeOnline · Post by **ToonLifeOnline** » Sat May 24, 2008 3:40 am

Haha I thought is was great! Funny stuff! I thought the lip-syncing was great as well.

DK · Post by DK » Sat May 24, 2008 5:20 am

Hey...great stuff! Did you do the voicework as well? Was ths for any particular project?

D.K

jhbmw007 · Post by **jhbmw007** » Sun May 25, 2008 12:42 pm

The was for the Esource.com energy efficient video contest- top video gets $2,000. I wrote the script and did the man's voice, house was voiced by the talented Brett Slater of Slatersgarage.com. If you ever need a good v/o, he's the man!

SlatersGarage · Post by **SlatersGarage** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:02 pm

Thanks for the plug!