Bendytoons Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 Here is the next piece in my development of the facial puppeting system. The goal was to begin exploring the performance possibilities. I gotta say I think it went quite well. Let me know what you think. (Sorry about the big file, best I could do) spystory.mov edit: here's a zip with a DivX avi in it, this looks and sounds better spystory.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhar Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 LOL That not only looked super, but funny as heck. Bendytoons gotta produce more animated shorts. You're a natural. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendytoons Posted March 4, 2007 Author Share Posted March 4, 2007 LOL That not only looked super, but funny as heck. Bendytoons gotta produce more animated shorts. You're a natural. Thanks, Dhar. This years goal is productivity, so hopefully there will be plenty more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Forwood Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 With a setup like this you should be able to turn out an enormous amount of work! This is fantastic, Bendy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenH Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 Amazing. The lip sync is almost flawless now. Imagine this guy with materials and final rendered! Do you have to do any "remapping" to make the origin face fit on to the bug face? What do the markers drive in AM? Poses or is it a keyframe on every frame? PS I can see AM studios like SoulCage being interest in this tech. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaryin Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 That is crazy how cool that is looking. I think Ken is right. There might be some people out there who would buy this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agep Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 haha. this was great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted March 4, 2007 Hash Fellow Share Posted March 4, 2007 That looks like a substantial improvement over your previous test. Much less popping. If you could get the cost of your system down to about the cost of A:M you might have something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendytoons Posted March 4, 2007 Author Share Posted March 4, 2007 That looks like a substantial improvement over your previous test. Much less popping. If you could get the cost of your system down to about the cost of A:M you might have something. You have been spoiled. I blame Martin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendytoons Posted March 4, 2007 Author Share Posted March 4, 2007 Hmm. Well I was gonna post a full size DivX version because it was better quality and much smaller than the QT. Unfortunately the forum will not let me do so. IF anyone knows how to do so please let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Forwood Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 You could probably zip the DivX and post that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendytoons Posted March 4, 2007 Author Share Posted March 4, 2007 Amazing. The lip sync is almost flawless now. Imagine this guy with materials and final rendered! Do you have to do any "remapping" to make the origin face fit on to the bug face? What do the markers drive in AM? Poses or is it a keyframe on every frame? PS I can see AM studios like SoulCage being interest in this tech. This approach fundamentally remaps the motion, but all of that is done in the puppet itself. The motion is used unaltered. And once the puppet is set up for a puppeteer there are only tiny tweaks to make for each new performance. Switching performers will require a little more work, I guess, so far it's just me. This method is creating a key on every frame, but you can use A:M tools to reduce them if you want. That is crazy how cool that is looking. I think Ken is right. There might be some people out there who would buy this. As my wife said this morning, the only thing to buy at this point would be me. This is all still a cobbled together system that mostly shows off A:M's flexibility. I've developed nothing patentable so far, just a bunch of clever hacks gathered over a lot of trial and error. You could probably zip the DivX and post that. Shaazam. Here is a zip with a divx avi in it.spystory.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Forwood Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 That is amazing! I have watched it about 20 times. So how much of this is hand animated and how much is from your motion capture setup? I'm assuming that you have to animate the tongue but is everything else handled by Syntheyes and your rig? I'd like to see you put him through some real extremes. Bloomin' marvelous! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendytoons Posted March 4, 2007 Author Share Posted March 4, 2007 That is amazing! I have watched it about 20 times. So how much of this is hand animated and how much is from your motion capture setup? I'm assuming that you have to animate the tongue but is everything else handled by Syntheyes and your rig? I'd like to see you put him through some real extremes. Bloomin' marvelous! You are dead on about the animating. I keyframed his tongue for the "thilenly thneak". Extremes will come, it's in my nature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendytoons Posted March 5, 2007 Author Share Posted March 5, 2007 Surprisingly, Bug was not the only one to try out for this part. Here is a fragment of the monkey trying to play against type. Mostly this was a test to see how transferring between models would work. The monkey is old and wasn't originally designed for this, and yet he performed quite well. bug_tryout.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
case Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 Crazy funny this is amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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