Moving Mouths in Mac Ads?


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Any ideas how those were done? Please don't tell me they created special in-game animations that we'll never get to access...


 

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No. StoneFalcon did each frame individually.

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Showoff...

Well, at least that means that the effect is within reach given enough effort, as opposed to needing inside access to the game animators. I wonder if we could coax him into giving us some tips on how he pulled it off?


 

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Showoff...

Well, at least that means that the effect is within reach given enough effort, as opposed to needing inside access to the game animators. I wonder if we could coax him into giving us some tips on how he pulled it off?

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From what Jun told me... frame by frame changes. With far more patience than I'd have (at least without some serious monetary compensation).

One way to do it would be to check each of the male/female faces and find the ones with open/closed/pursed lips, move them to the angle you'd need, whitescreen the character, get captures of just the mouths, and then use transparent images in sequence in something like Vegas or Premiere.

You'll notice that the camera doesn't move around when the characters are talking.

Like I said, time consuming.

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Another reason I'm really glad I have After Effects?


 

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Another reason I'm really glad I have After Effects?

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What is, I am laughing a lot at your humorous response, Star_Dancer?

Wow, the facial animations were amazing. If I had more time, I would delve into doing that type of stuff for CoX. I may do it for a project of mine down the road.


 

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Isn't moving lips a feature available in most flash media creation tools? Setting a line or object to change shape according to sound produced (like in a visualization in a media player)?

Granted, it doesn't always look great, but there are shortcuts around having to manually edit every frame i would think.


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