I see how most of the individual bits work, but not quite clear on overall workflow for animated character using strung together mixamo dance animations while character is also lip synching with a custom head generated from 2d images, but then needs hair attached, and shoes added that I currently have in OBJ format.
I'm assuming I need to first get the head created in Crazytalk Pipeline (almost done with that part).
Not quite clear from there, so please let me know if I have this right. I think I need to export the head into CC where I will add the hair / clothes from preset libraries. Not quite clear if this is also where I would attach the shoes I have separately in OBJ format. Also not clear whether the lip synch and facial expression morphs are being exported along with the head from CT into CC.
Once the character is all fleshed out, it needs to be animated. I have some custom keyframe animation I'm doing, and also stringing together some Mixamo sequences. Would the character be exported from CC as fbx into Mixamo pre-rigged? If so, is there some other formatting issue to be aware of there? I'm assuming having it rigged properly first is preferable to the Mixamo auto-rig, but seems also that it must be according to Mixamo's specs.
Should the full character be uploaded or just the basic mesh for textures to be reapplied later? I have some familiarity with (and own) C4d, so if possible, it would probably be easiest for me to comp the animation there. If so, seems the lip sync animation can't go into and back out of Mixamo with the character, so does it get set aside and imported into C4d separately from the fbx that Mixamo outputs?
Just not quite clear in general how the lip sync and dance animations come together. Seems like CC is the hub where the character all comes together, so seems most appropriate to ask here.