You can use some photo and lipsynch the person on the photo having recorded some sound to use.
Here is an example on how ot lipsync President Lincoln!

To do the lipsync of a photo you have to start out with the lipsynced mouth you can find in the project file belonging to Four Basic Lessons.

And you better have a look through of PART 4 belonging to the Four Basic Lessons to understand a little more about how to lipsync.

Here you will find the project file and PART 4 to study:
http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15027

And here is the result to look and listen to!

Thanks Seven,

Always handy to have a tutorial when I need it.

Michael

There is always a need for guides - to tell the story behind! This guide is a continuation course to the Four Basic Lessons to learn and teach A:M:
http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15027

The two tutorials on how to make guides:
http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?act=A...=post&id=112635
http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?act=A...=post&id=112636
The project files:
http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?act=A...=post&id=112637
The demo example:
http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?act=A...=post&id=112638

Here you will learn to lip sync a little more, to use a free spring sound to give the bowing action a little more substance and to place the guide on a floor using an image as a Rotoscope in the Choreography and making the floor to a Front Projection Target.

This one is a guide to The Linoln Memorial. But you can make guides for all subjects!
Why not make a guide to Teslas all genious discoveries?
http://www.teslasociety.com/



And his earth-quake machine:
http://www.excludedmiddle.com/earthquake.htm
He put his little vibrator in his coat-pocket and went out to hunt a half-erected steel building. Down in the Wall Street district, he found one ten stories of steel framework without a brick or a stone laid around it. He clamped the vibrator to one of the beams, and fussed with the adjustment until he got it.

Tesla said finally the structure began to creak and weave and the steel-workers came to the ground panic-stricken, believing that there had been an earthquake. Police were called out. Tesla put the vibrator in his pocket and went away. Ten minutes more and he could have laid the building in the street. And, with the same vibrator he could have dropped the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River in less than an hour.

How to make Guides for all subjects - Part one

How to make Guides for all subjects - Part two

How to make Guides for all subjects - Project files

Look and listen to a very short guiding - just the start:
Hello and Welcome to the Lincoln Memorial

Why Tesla?
Tesla is best known for the invention of AC - alternating current electricity:
http://www.teslasociety.com/ac.htm

Modern society is really built upon scientific discoveries - electricity - the new fire(electric power) - the new wheel(electric computing).

1583 Galileo Galilei - 19 years old - sat in the cathedral of Pisa taking his pulse to learn how the lamps were swinging - connecting time and space with a formula - Natural Science was born.
http://galileo.rice.edu/chron/galileo.html

Man is seven million years old:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2...-man050406.html

Having lived in small groups - some hundred in each - most of the time - up to the agricultural revolution just 10000 years ago. Living like in Papua New Guinea having 800 languages:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/png/48039.stm

We are now six billons on our sun-satelite earth:
http://www.medindia.net/patients/calculato...dPopulation.asp

How to handle Natural Science? The good and evil of its discoveries?
Genetic Manipulation:
http://www.linkny.com/~civitas/page88.html
Nano Technology:
http://www.zyvex.com/nano/

Tesla can be a doorway into a discussion of what to do with modern science and technology - a moratorium - to let us sit down and meditate on the future?
http://www.crnano.org/PR-shutdown.htm
http://www.techcentralstation.com/073003B.html
http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display...ocument_id=5417


Tesla a short biography:
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Tesla.html

Teslas all papers:
http://www.tesla-coil-builder.com/known_te...ublications.htm

The earth quake machine:
http://www.freeinfosociety.com/science/earthquake.html

Natural Sciience and Technology taking a break - man having a moratorium on it - medtating on what to do - meditating on the image of the future - can be good - but is not that simple - meditating on the future in an eternal now?!.,

Why not learn a little about meditation? Learning to practice it yourself! And practice it to learn something about your I and your Self. This is the do it yourself "religion" - learning about the mystic and the magics - the things you have to know if you want to make artistic animations!!! By sitting on your ass??? You have to test it yourself - sitting down - to find out if it has some worth or is just worthless...

Hara - is the center of breath - four fingers below the navel:
http://www.seido.com/01_about_seido/meditation_breathing.htm

Hara - something to concentrate on - sitting down meditating some minutes each day
perhaps bringing some peace, love and understanding to our world - some fresh breathes!

Hey!

Thank you for the tuts

And much more thank you for the Tesla links... it reminded me of the subject that I've wanted to return to...

Drvarceto

A tutorial on how to Lip Sync a Beak

And here the project file

Willi - has done a simple mouth bone rig:
http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11326

Here is a tutorial in two parts on his mouth rig to learn to lip sync a clown or someone else! And the project file for the clown you can also find here.

And the second part

The project files

Here you will learn how to lip sync a simple mask in Muscle Mode. The tutorial is in four parts and there is also a project file.

Donald Duck and Mickey the Mouse animated without sound and lipsync will not get very much attention - no public! And animations have to have two characters to show the conflicts in the characters and between them.

But animations have to have something more. Silence makes the music. The same in animations. The Choreography has got a silent, unmoving horizon between heaven and earth.

Let us break that horizon with a lipsynched character. Having learnt to lipsynch one character - you can lipsynch another. Creating conflicts - problems - to solve! And have a good laugh afterwards.

Part 1: You learn to model a simple face - a mask - with lips.
Part 2: The mask gets eyes and a cavity with a tongue.
Part 3: Nine shapes - poses for the mouth are created for the lip sync.
Part 4: Recording the sentence: You´re welcome to the land of masks.
And the animation is created in the Choreography.
Part 5: The project file
(Altogether only about 3 Megabyte to download)

The tutorial is NOT for the advanced ones. It is for the NEWBIES. It just a simple face - a mask - a mouth and a tongue but no teeth. The lipsync is not perfected but you learn how to model a basic face step by step using extrude and lathe - you learn how to make nine poses - naming them in an action with a dopesheet for the lipsync. And you learn how to use that action in the Choreography.



Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

The project

Modeling a caricature you have to be very clever and lipsynching it will take some time. Here you will learn how to make it simple and fast! And you can tell your own jokes to a world audience on the Internet.

This example is inspired by an article in Hustler about 911:
http://911truth.org/docs/drgHfull.pdf

The article called "What if everything you know about 9/11 is wrong?" is an interview with David Ray Griffin, emeritus professor, Claremont School of Theology. He has written the book: The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions.
He has something to tell! A conspiracy theory or not - you have to find out for yourself - reading the article and Googling on it.

The article in Hustler has a cartoon a possible start point for an animation.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Project

Trying to model a caricature for a cartoon from Hustler and finding it really difficult to model a 3D caricature - I ended up in a fast and easy method. The cartoon and the article belonging to it you can find here:
http://911truth.org/docs/drgHfull.pdf

And the tutorial on making caricatures fast and easy you can find here:
http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15248

It is not really modeling in 3D space but it is a way to do a caricature! Trying to say something in a humorous way - trying to solve conflicts with humor - a good laughter - instead of using violence - hoping on some peace, love and understanding on our sun-satellite.

But how to model a caricature in 3D? I will try to answer that question using a dialectical method. Here is a result of a fast and easy method:

I had some looks on caricature modeling. Not much of that sort with A:M. It is so difficult and you have to be so clever. Jim Talbot has modeled two examples Lincoln and Clinton:
http://www.hash.com/stills/thumbnails.php?...arch=caricature


Douglas Ferrin has made an animation with sound - lip synched speach -
Cozy Chat With the President - http://amfilms.hash.com/search/Entry.php?entry=1051

It is really telling a story - not being just an image. The caricature has a big mouth and a photo? to make it look like the character.

For sure you can try to model something realistic - but what is realism? photorealism? what kind of camera? X-ray? No, also cameras are making simplifications of reality - just capturing some parts of it. Caricature it is something exaggerated - simplified - stressing just some concept - this is the way we are functioning - just taking in parts of the reality - the total reality it is unable to grasp. You just are it - and you are part of it - realizing it - realized by it - trying to grasp it - you kill it... but good caricatures have the flow - the soul - they have it!

Modeling in A:M you want to have som simple 3D model to alter - one simple one is the head of Gala. Can you use it to make caricatures? Or which way to go?

Caricature - what do you think of?
Goya´s paintings?
http://www.spanisharts.com/prado/goya.htm
Honoré Daumier?
http://www.honore-daumier.com/
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/daumier/
http://french.chass.utoronto.ca/fcs195/realism.html

Dialectical modeling - what is that?

Dialectics is an old method on thinking - making concepts - words out of reality.
Most known for:
Thesis - Anti-thesis - Syn-thesis

Dialectics for kids - What the Heck is Dialectics?
http://home.igc.org/~venceremos/whatheck.htm

Telling a lot - telling this:
One--Every thing (every object and every process) is made of opposing forces/opposing sides.

Two--Gradual changes lead to turning points, where one opposite overcomes the other.

Three--Change moves in spirals, not circles.

This is the principle used by Marx, Hegel the old greeks - Herakleitos and the book of changes - Chou Yi:
http://ecwberlin.coolfreepage.com/index2/e9.htm

Everything is one - making divisions - glueing the parts together - Oneness - Religion - Science- Everything uses this principle - but being an artist you have to go behind the words - the different ways - do - in Japan is practising it - drinking and eating - living it - sitting and standing...

Lookin at a face - it can be modeled like a sphere or a box or something inbetween the two. And the box/sphere is in a space. And they are materia - space/box/sphere. The head has some openings:
Forehead extruded - holes extruded - neck(1) - ears(2) - eyes(2) - nose strils(2) - mouth(1)

How to grasp it? Making a caracature? more or less exagerated - simplified - photo realistic...

A forehead and a nose - extruded backwards - putting some splines on it for the holes and connecting it - will it do?

Having a look on the one having done caricatures with A:M - Jim Talbot - you can learn he always uses a triangle by the nose - and some flow to connect the forehead - cheek - chin. Modeling in A:M you have to know how to make the splines flow - or stop the flowing of them. Or what is the secret behind modeling in A:M - I really do not know - just trying to think about it...

How to model in A:M?
Someones saying - start with the profile!
For sure - it is a way - but there are so much other things then you try to characterize someone - and it is 3D conceptions - the cheeks looking like hamburgers? the chin like a potato? the nose - a banana?

Traditional sculpture - is not learned or teached by making a profile - a contour - they have other ways of thinking - conceptualizing - doing it in clay or stone...

I believe it is the same thing in A:M - you have to have some 3D-model to work with from the beginning - a simple one and then trying to get the big forms and the small ones and letting them talk with each other - dialectics!

I am thinking of WINKing a tutorial on modeling...
Perhaps there are others having thought of modeling faces - caricatures - which way to go - how to think? You are welcome with suggestions - and you are welcome to do some tutorial yourself - I am just now just thinking loud...

Sometimes you can wonder - do you need to model a face - it is only to take a good modeled face and alter it a bit - moving some CPs. You can use the Gala models face to make a male out of it! Still I think their is a need for modeling. The thing is A:M is inexact. The splines having a life of their own...

Perhaps a way modeling without creases?
A triangle patch and some flow-work...

Modeling in space - how to do it!

Hiya folks
I can't for the life of me remember where the skylight / sky rig / sky something website it. I remember someone creating a website where you could enter int he various values you had for a scene and it created the necessary lights and action files you needed for it (I believe it used sub frame techniques to use fewer physical lights).......did this ever exist? Was I dreaming? Was I eating too many mushrooms last year and took a 'bad' one?

Thanks for any help!

http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/animas/skylight/

I think this is what you are looking for.

Scott

Thank you! I'll add you to the list of folks I owe an ice cream to!

P.

If you want to listen to David Ray Griffin, emeritus professor, Claremont School of Theology here he is interviewed of Michael Wolsey from http://www.colorado911visibility.org :
http://911blogger.powermediahost.com/audio...dRayGriffin.mp3


"Guns and Butter" - http://www.gunsandbutter.net/ - a weekly program broadcast on KPFA, 94.1 fm in Berkeley, California has also an interview with him:
http://www.gunsandbutter.net/archives.php?si=82


And you can have a look and listen to him speaking on University of Wisconsin, Madison:
http://www.911blogger.com/2005/04/proper-r...in-madison.html



And here you can look and listen to the result of the tutorial:

Has anyone bought this training cd? If so I have a couple of questions. First is how long is the training on the CD? On the website they don't say anything about length of training. Are there support files so you can work along with the CD? And of course would you recommend it? Thanks...

I bought the bundle before and am ordering the animating cd this week.

Yes, more than worth it and I'm sure you will get a lot of info on the cd.

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How to make a cartoon with a character with a recognizable voice?
Well, if you are really talented you can try to imitate the character...
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On A:M Films you can find Douglas Ferrin´s Cozy Chat With the President
http://amfilms.hash.com/search/Entry.php?entry=1051
How the voice is made you do not get any information about - perhaps it is Douglas Ferrin himself imitating Bush...
You can find a link to download the animation here:
http://members.aol.com/knowewetwo/
Or you can download the animation from here:
http://members.aol.com/dontbugmeimwrkng/cozychat/
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Imitating that is not so easy...
But if you have got the money or think you can get it - you can hire an imitator.
JibJab - http://www.jibjab.com/ - having made the famous This land -
http://images2.shockwave.com/afassets/flash/this_land.swf - hired Jim Meskinen
to sing and imitate the president canditates.
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Another famous cartoon is FuzzyMath - you can find here:
http://thebots.net/FuzzyMathVideo.htm
http://www.thebots.net/FuzzyMath22.swf
They have a voice archive you can use trying to find some useable sentence:
http://www.thebots.net/GWBushSampleArchive.htm
Perhaps that is the way to go - sampling gigabytes of speech from the character?!.,
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Why not try to use the computer to synthesize a voice?

You can read about speech synthesis on wikipedia and find some programs to use:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis

There are free programs eg.:
Festival - http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ - is a freely available complete diphone concatenation and unit selection TTS system.
You can also take a look at:
http://festvox.org/
telling you:
The Festvox project aims to make the building of new synthetic voices more systemic and better documented, making it possible for anyone to build a new voice.
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Thanks.....so its only about an hour of training. Hummm....

What does Weight Mover do that TSM doesn't do?

I have it. It's pretty basic but did teach me one or two things.

Weight Mover and TSM are related but do different things. TSM will rig your model but weight mover will only help adjust CP weighting (and requires a rigged model)

Think of it as Smartskin is to the 2001 Rig!

Cheers

So the tutorial isn't only about TSM it covers using WeightMover too? Both are used to create the animation in the tutorial?

I haven't played all the tutes yet but I have not yet come across anything related to Weight Mover!

Cheers

Anyone complete the CD yet?

Some result: