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What was that name again? – Animated loop for my Moho Webinar
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:27 pm
by JoelMayer
Hi Guys
The opportunity to host a Moho Webinar has given me a kick in the butt to finish this little guy whom i had sitting on my harddrive for a while.
Was inspired by the awkward situation when you're in a call with somebody and never really caught their name and then it's time to say goodbye...
Re: What was that name again? – Animated loop for my Moho Webinar
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:35 pm
by Greenlaw
Love the retro look! Reminds me of old DePatie-Freleng cartoons.
Good luck with the Webinar, Joel!
Re: What was that name again? – Animated loop for my Moho Webinar
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:28 am
by slowtiger
A favourite style of mine as well (see my
https://vimeo.com/683946372. Of course Moho's strength is the smooth transformation, but I think this style asks for mouth shapes with sharp changes, not interpolation. But of course that's a personal design choice.
I like the stuff you did with the speech bubble!
Re: What was that name again? – Animated loop for my Moho Webinar
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:04 am
by JoelMayer
slowtiger wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:28 am
A favourite style of mine as well (see my
https://vimeo.com/683946372. Of course Moho's strength is the smooth transformation, but I think this style asks for mouth shapes with sharp changes, not interpolation. But of course that's a personal design choice.
I like the stuff you did with the speech bubble!
I agree in this case i was watching a lot of Richard Williams' 60's commercials which were more "design-y" but had just as elaborate animation as anything so i guess was influenced there
Better luck next time haha... fwiw i did, as usual, do a lot of manual inbetweening to at least get some more "snap" in the breakdowns but i'll show that off next wednesday
Re: What was that name again? – Animated loop for my Moho Webinar
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:55 am
by slowtiger
Over the last 2 yrs I did _a lot _ of lipsync animation and experimented with several ways: fully automatical, switch with and without interpolation. I found that in a mainly interpolated switch lipsync I can get snappiness in when needed by just duplicating the last key and put it right before the next.
I should note that I'm not really comfortable with fully automated nor Preston Blair phoneme set lipsync. For most purposes I now use a very reduced set of 6 to 8 mouth shapes:
MPB
WF
A
E
I (can be skipped)
O
U (can be skipped)
etc (somewhere between M and E).
This is for my average normal job of mostly talking heads.
If there's need for more exaggerated articulation I can always add more shapes.
Re: What was that name again? – Animated loop for my Moho Webinar
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:57 am
by JoelMayer
There's always multiple ways to skin a cat
