How'd they do that???
What software could accomplish that?? Magpie?
Thanks,
Ray
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Canny Valley
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Um...
Pretty sure it's called "film an actual baby, then make up dialogue that fits his random mouth movements."
He *could* be CG, or some combination of editing techniques like that horrible Taco Bell dog, I just think it would be simpler to film a baby randomly teething and make up a bunch of words that fit.
Maybe screw with the playback speed of the footage a little bit. Not enough to be noticeable, just a little bit to help it flow better.
It's amazing what you can accomplish with a little good old-fashioned film-editing.
Pretty sure it's called "film an actual baby, then make up dialogue that fits his random mouth movements."
He *could* be CG, or some combination of editing techniques like that horrible Taco Bell dog, I just think it would be simpler to film a baby randomly teething and make up a bunch of words that fit.
Maybe screw with the playback speed of the footage a little bit. Not enough to be noticeable, just a little bit to help it flow better.
It's amazing what you can accomplish with a little good old-fashioned film-editing.
Then my question would be what software can duplicate this?Canny Valley wrote:Um...
Pretty sure it's called "film an actual baby, then make up dialogue that fits his random mouth movements."
He *could* be CG, or some combination of editing techniques like that horrible Taco Bell dog, I just think it would be simpler to film a baby randomly teething and make up a bunch of words that fit.
Maybe screw with the playback speed of the footage a little bit. Not enough to be noticeable, just a little bit to help it flow better.
It's amazing what you can accomplish with a little good old-fashioned film-editing.
No, I'm actually positive they are simply replacing his mouth with CGI mouth samples (probably manipulated from him).
What software could do this? Um, depends on how well you want to do this. One of the keys to the ad is that the mouth shapes shift in 3D as the baby moves. Otherwise it will end up looking like a Conan O'Brien skit (where they simply put a video of someone else's mouth inside an image) or, if you're old enough to remember, the old Clutch Cargo series (an animated show where they replaced the mouth with a video of a human -- very odd and upsetting). Now, that's not a bad thing, it just won't be nearly as convincing.
So while you could conceivably do it in software like CrazyTalk or even AS, the problem is you need your mouth shapes to track in 3D and that requires a level of sophistication you don't have available to you in a 2D program. I could do it in 3D Max but that's a $3K program and probably beyond your reach. Animation Master might be able to do it, but I don't know anything about that program.
In essence you want to build your 3D model of the head and have it track the baby's rotation -- the head doesn't have to be perfect (for your own purposes probably almost any head would do) although I'm guessing the ad spot used a pretty good one. Then just use the resultant mouth shapes blended into the other video (this is definitely a "Conan" trick but easy to do with almost any compositing software).
Note that if you *could* keep the head still you could use a 2D program -- so another alternative is to use a clamp to hold the baby's head in position and video him (of course he will be screaming and in general not a happy camper -- can you tell I'm not really into babies all that much?)
What software could do this? Um, depends on how well you want to do this. One of the keys to the ad is that the mouth shapes shift in 3D as the baby moves. Otherwise it will end up looking like a Conan O'Brien skit (where they simply put a video of someone else's mouth inside an image) or, if you're old enough to remember, the old Clutch Cargo series (an animated show where they replaced the mouth with a video of a human -- very odd and upsetting). Now, that's not a bad thing, it just won't be nearly as convincing.
So while you could conceivably do it in software like CrazyTalk or even AS, the problem is you need your mouth shapes to track in 3D and that requires a level of sophistication you don't have available to you in a 2D program. I could do it in 3D Max but that's a $3K program and probably beyond your reach. Animation Master might be able to do it, but I don't know anything about that program.
In essence you want to build your 3D model of the head and have it track the baby's rotation -- the head doesn't have to be perfect (for your own purposes probably almost any head would do) although I'm guessing the ad spot used a pretty good one. Then just use the resultant mouth shapes blended into the other video (this is definitely a "Conan" trick but easy to do with almost any compositing software).
Note that if you *could* keep the head still you could use a 2D program -- so another alternative is to use a clamp to hold the baby's head in position and video him (of course he will be screaming and in general not a happy camper -- can you tell I'm not really into babies all that much?)