Talking Head with Anime Studio
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 4:55 pm
Although I own a copy of AS Pro, I'm curious how easy it is to only use the tools and functions available in the non-pro version. There are no group layers, so those have to be replaced with bone layers.
Here is an example movie file I made of a talking head. I didn't use real lipsynching with mouth shapes, but rather used the wave file as switch data and three mouth shapes (open, half open, and closed), to keep things simple.
Not too difficult, only I really missed the Render function when I designed the head (in fact, I used it intensively). IMHO the Render function should have been included in the non-pro version. Without rendering you are working more or less working in the dark. Here is the archived source file, and the movie on YouTube**.
Take care.
** Note: The YouTube file misses a few of the finer details that are present in the original .anme and in the Flash Video file.
Here is an example movie file I made of a talking head. I didn't use real lipsynching with mouth shapes, but rather used the wave file as switch data and three mouth shapes (open, half open, and closed), to keep things simple.
Not too difficult, only I really missed the Render function when I designed the head (in fact, I used it intensively). IMHO the Render function should have been included in the non-pro version. Without rendering you are working more or less working in the dark. Here is the archived source file, and the movie on YouTube**.
Take care.
** Note: The YouTube file misses a few of the finer details that are present in the original .anme and in the Flash Video file.