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Posted by Roy S on 12/22/05 21:05
Thanks for the great suggestion. I'm not going anywhere near the copyrite
thing!
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> "Roy S" <photoflair@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> A client want me to take a segment from a well known motion picture, and
>> 'stick' on heads, a la Monty Python!
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>> Hopefully will get decent quality stills to work with, but am not sure
>> how
>> to put the project together. I could roto scope it, but it seems to me
> that
>> would take forever! Does anyone have a suggestion??? (Finished segment
> will
>> run for 5-10 minutes, and include three 'heads'.
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> Ignoring, for the moment, the copyright issues this raises, I'd think that
> a
> track matte would be the easiest way to go. As for animating the heads,
> there is an inexpensive consumer product called "Crazy Talk"
> (www.reallusion.com) that I've found surprisingly effective. It can take
> either text or an wav file recording, break it down into phonemes and then
> animate the mouth, eyes and facial muscles (with a surprising degree of
> control) of a still photo. It can export to avi, but the version I've
> used
> was limited to 512 x 512 pixels. If you're going to use a tracking matte,
> that shouldn't pose a limitation. I got surprisingly good results in a
> project that included animating George Washington on a one-dollar bill, a
> talking dog, and a sing-a-long with Richard M. Nixon.
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