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1. Facial Animation Software Question?

   

   Topic by Mark Dygert · May 2007 · Home› Technical Talk

   I've been looking into different facial animation packages/plug-ins and I keep coming up short on features or flexibility. So I'm wondering if anyone else has banged their head on this brick wall and managed to put a dent in it (the wall, not your head). Needs: - 3DS Max compatible - Bones or Morph targets - Ability to…

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   Reply by Richard Kain · May 2007 · Home› Technical Talk

   Ah, you found Annosoft. I've used their free C++ phoneme command-line program to produce some facial animations in Flash. I just had to create a parsing program to convert the output of the lipsyncer into an actionscript array. Annosoft's lip-syncing software is quite capable. It spaced out the timing of my audio files…

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   Reply by Eric Chadwick · May 2007 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hey, I was looking in maxplugins.de and saw FaceFX. Looks like the batch support might be helpful for big jobs, and seems to support Max. http://www.oc3ent.com/

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   Reply by Eric Chadwick · May 2007 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hey that looks pretty good. I haven't done lipsync since the Magpie days, which seems to have come a long way. Hopefully your work will look as good as the TF2 vids!

5. Re: Facial Animation Software Question?

   

   Reply by Mark Dygert · May 2007 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks to Shibu Menon over at CGTalk I found the perfect solution. www.annosoft.com mixed with some of Shibu's Max Scripts it makes the process almost painless, almost...