Lip Sync test for an independent film "Acordem Ovelhas" (Wake Up Sheeps) that I'm working as an animator. It's a Sci-Fi Comedy. It was Animated in Poser and rendered in Carrara. I can't use the Talk Designer because it doesn't fit on my language (portuguese). It was animated by hand and I figured out that Poser is the best and easier to do hand made animation.

Model - M4 Dragalien by RawArt, Voice - Robson Bailarino, Directed by Ricardo Chacur

You can use lip sync in DS as well. The language really doesn't matter since it's all phoneme based anyway - saves a lot of work hand-animated the speech. Cararra also has a Mimic plug-in, if you prefer doing it in Cararra.

-AniMajik

Maybe I might test it. Is there a way to export the DS lip sync animation to Poser? Because I use the Poser Graph editor a lot. This is just a test of lip sync and render time. And I'll have to animate the whole figure for the movie. And I still owned Carrara 6, I don't know if there's a Mimic plugin for this version. Thanks for the comment!

You could try the fbx or alembic exporter from DS, but I think you'd be better off getting a copy of Mimic which ypu can use the output in DS or Poser. It works similar to Lipsync. Also there is version available for Cararra. You might try exporting a .cr2 from DS (after applying lypsync in DS) never tried that though.

-AniMajik

Thanks for the tips! I believe I'll need some automatic lip sync to save time when I start animating the scenes. And I like your Van Damme vs Cats animation lol :)

They used to sell mimic as a stand alone, I see Mimic Carrara and Mimic DS, and they have Mimic Lite (doesn't support genesis its under 10) its a matter of also having the mimic phenom file for your character (or you make them). I haven't used it sadly so I cannot comment but Carrara has a Graph Editor, sequencer and NLA Clips and AniBlocks as well for animation.

I made some tests with Mimic for Carrara and Mimic3 StandAlone, I prefer the standalone version but it's always a base before an edition into Carrara (to much keyframes). My problem is similar as LeaLee, I speack french... but I have better results with a keyframing by hand directly in Carrara.