Categories
Recent Posts
Winner - Best Series at the Machinima Film Festival Europe 2007 Episode 6 - It Takes Noob To Tango Episode 5 - The Sporting Second LIfe Episode 2 - This land is my land... Episode 1 - The So-Called Pilot Recent Comments
t0xic scissor on Episode 8 - Goldfurry rikomatic on Episode 8 - Goldfurry Keith Savage on Episode 3 - Me Talk Pretty Mike Monello on Episode 7 - Monster Trek Steve Coulson on Episode 7 - Monster Trek Mal on Episode 7 - Monster Trek Lynette Radio on Episode 7 - Monster Trek Mm Alder on Episode 6 - It Takes Noob To Tango Trent Hedges on Episode 6 - It Takes Noob To Tango marvin contendo on Episode 6 - It Takes Noob To Tango | « Episode 5 - The Sporting Second LIfe | Main | iPod Feed Update » Episode 6 - It Takes Noob To TangoJoin the cast this week as they lose themselves in Fort Malaya...show support for the third annual SL Relay for Life...burn some rubber on H & R Block...solicit personal advice from Coldwell Banker...and kick up their heels in celebration of an SL milestone... Do you have a burning desire to share your thoughts and opinions about the show? Please don't keep it to yourself any longer! Post your comments below. We're dying to hear from you! TrackBackTrackBack URL for this entry: | Other Sites
@Blip.tv Podcast Feeds
Recent Photos
Post your photo to Flickr and add it to the "gridreview" group to appear here! -->Links
3pointD Our Newsroom
Disclaimer Second Life and Linden Lab are trademarks or registered trademarks of Linden Research, Inc. All rights reserved. No infringement is intended. No title or any other form of ownership to any intellectual property of Linden Lab has been or will be transferred to The Grid Review |
Comments (5)
Thanks for the coverage! Love that Ming guy ... what a voice!
Posted by Randy | April 5, 2007 3:38 PM
Posted on April 5, 2007 15:38
I understand you use CrazyTalk to do the lip-sync. How do you use CrazyTalk with SecondLife?
Mike
Posted by Mm Alder | April 9, 2007 10:48 PM
Posted on April 9, 2007 22:48
I HAVE THE SAME QUESTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOW IN HELL CAN THE &*#¨AVATARS TAAAALK????????
I NEED TO KNOW THAT FOR A COLLEGE MOVIE MACHINIMA IM SHOOTING
PLEASE TELL US YOUR LITTLE SECRET
thanks
Posted by marvin contendo | April 12, 2007 9:46 AM
Posted on April 12, 2007 09:46
Hey all!
Thanks so much for your interest in the show and in the facial animations.
Without getting into rediculous detail, I choose a suitable frame of the video footage to use as the 'face-base' shot that I bring (just the face via a green-screen outline) into crazy-talk. After using CT to animate the faces (painstakingly! to get the right expressions at the right moments) I then bring the greenscreened talking face back into my video editor and motion control it across the original footage to capture all of the characters original head movements.
While CT is a great product and gives us our lip-syching ability, there is a lot more work involved in making the illusion believeable. I hope you're all inspired to create more machinima! Thanks so much for watching and tell your friends!
Stay tuned for a new episode today!
Cheers,
Trent Hedges
Posted by Trent Hedges | April 18, 2007 2:40 PM
Posted on April 18, 2007 14:40
Thanks for your explanation, Trent.
I'm not sure what "to capture all of the characters original head movements" involves. Your video editor must be 2D and the movements 3D. In addition to the lip-sync and facial expressions are you also reproducing the head movement in CT?
"I hope you're all inspired to create more machinima!" Actually, I'm inspired to create easier lip-sync so that everybody else can create more machinima. :-)
Mike
Posted by Mm Alder | April 18, 2007 4:26 PM
Posted on April 18, 2007 16:26