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| | Good Day ... I hope all is well. 1. I have CT 5 2. For my model I use: Human Profile Profile Strength = 0.4 Motion Strength = 58% Standby Motion is checked and = General 3. When I play my model w/my script, I get great lip movement but no other movement, like blinking eyes, smiles, nodding, etc. 4. If I play my model w/Elvis or Gump, I get total facial movement. 5. If I play my model with emotives, other than neutral, I also get total facial movement 6. My question ... how can I get more realistic facial movement, e.g., blinking eyes, smile, head movement, etc., with my model using my script ??? Thank you for your time & consideration. Jim ************************ |
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| | Hi Jim, It sounds like the problem you have is that you have created a script with audio but have yet to add any facial animation to it. In Crazytalk 5 you can add your facial animation by using a few different methods. As you have already found out, adding an Emotive will give you facial movement so that is one way. Even better would be to create your own facial animations by using Puppeteering. This will give you the most realistic animation once you learn how to use it. You can also, if you wish use one of the supplied Motion Clips and just drag that onto the timeline (adjusting it for length). You can then adjust the Intensity Slider to make the facial animation as subtle as you want. Take a look at the Puppeteering tutorial below for more information on this feature.
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| | Peter Edwards ... Thanks for your reply and direction. I will follow your lead & advise success. I appreciate your guidance; take care. Jim ******************************* |
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| | Peter Edwards ... Your guidance sure helped. Took of bit of experimenting to get what I wanted but, I did get what I wanted. Thank you. Jim **************************** |
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| | Hi Jim, You are very welcome. I'm glad you have it sorted out now.  Pete
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| I am sorry to say that I have been using CrazyTalk5 ever sense it was first released WITHOUT viewing the tortorials first. I Love crazy talk5 and I have been having a lot of fun with it. I just viewed my first tortorial (puppeteers) and wow! I can see I been missing out on a lot of neat features - 
Moral of the story READ THE MANUAL AND VIEW THE TORTORIALS. |
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| Hi, I began working with CT5Pro today and using puppeteering. All functions well, my only problem is the eye blinking.
I click for every blinking, but and can see a short blinking. But when I replay the movie, the blinking endures too long, means the eyes are closed to long. Its not a short blinking. Has anybody a hint, what I am doing wrong?
Andi
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| Have you tried outputting to a different format such as WMV if you are using AVI or vice versa. Also try a smaller output size and higher frame rate if you are using a low frame rate. You should be able to see if there is any difference with the blinking and the different formats settings. It will help narrow things down.
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| | I am having the same problem. Can't seem to find any way to get blinking to work correctly. Others are suggesting use of a different output format but - for me - the problem occurs before trying to do any output. By this I mean, I record the blinks...everything looks good during the recording then when you play from the timeline the blinks are in very slow motion which makes the character look unnatural. Any suggestions would be appreciated... |
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| bblakewood (2/27/2009)
I am having the same problem. Can't seem to find any way to get blinking to work correctly. Others are suggesting use of a different output format but - for me - the problem occurs before trying to do any output. By this I mean, I record the blinks...everything looks good during the recording then when you play from the timeline the blinks are in very slow motion which makes the character look unnatural. Any suggestions would be appreciated... Hi, Does blinking work ok when viewing the default project that loads when Crazytalk starts or when using any of the other supplied models? If it happens with all models then it might possibly be a peformance related issue during playback. Also what happens when you output a video of your project. Does the video still contain slow motion blinking?
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