Virtually puppeteered lipsync - before/after keyframe clean-up
Channel: quollism
Date: 2014-06-21

What better use for a Saturday morning than learning to puppeteer with a Razer Hydra? Proog's pulp rant from the open movie "Elephants Dream" is the test dialogue again.

I posted the raw mocapped .blend file with controls at http://www.pasteall.org/blend/29916

The controls are as follows: joystick up closes the mouth, joystick down opens the mouth, joystick left spreads the lips and joystick right rounds them. Trigger in and out curls the bottom lip up. There's obviously room for refinement, and it's not very expressive yet either, but it's kind of cool how the words become gestures. :)

Lipsync puppeteering is way more fun than doing lipsync by keyframes, though it's not as precise - it might even take longer.

Dialogue from "Elephant's Dream". Copyright 2006 Netherlands Media Art Institute / Montevideo & Blender Foundation. Used under Creative Commons.

BlenderArtists thread about the Razer Hydra plugin: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?340537-Razer-Hydra-Motion-capture-Addon-for-Blender-3D