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Subject: My first 2-person conversation Mimic/Poser

lhiannan opened this issue on Jun 01, 2003 · 13 posts
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lhiannan ( ) posted Sun, 01 June 2003 at 11:04 AM · edited Tue, 21 January 2025 at 6:48 AM

Attached Link: http://lhiannan.tripod.com/King_and_Dennis2.avi

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This the first time I've done a multispeaker conversation that was not a straight headshot. There are some MAJOR weird things that I still have to fix (Dennis, the peasant, seems to have a twitching problem, for one thing). Consider this a sketch, a 1.6M sketch :)

The King and Dennis, from Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail

Dave-So ( ) posted Sun, 01 June 2003 at 11:59 AM

getting error from Tripod that you cannot download the files.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
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jelisa ( ) posted Sun, 01 June 2003 at 1:54 PM

Copy the url and paste into the address field, that worked for me.

3ncryptabl3_lick ( ) posted Sun, 01 June 2003 at 2:01 PM

It worked for me too, I just tried it. Looks great! Are you using the new Mimic2.0?

Redfern ( ) posted Sun, 01 June 2003 at 2:10 PM

Actually, what you consider Dennis' "twitches" I consider reaction "takes" as Arthur proclaims his divine vision. I think you're off to a hell'ova start! Shoot, more than a start, I think you're in the home stretch with this one. I don't think I've ever seen a true 2-person conversation example with Mimic. Well, maybe Little Dragon has, but he's done so many animations, it's hard to remember what he has and he hasn't done. So, which bit is next? The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch? Sincerely, Bill

Tempt the Hand of Fate and it'll give you the "finger"!

Dave-So ( ) posted Sun, 01 June 2003 at 4:02 PM

well...bummer..you have now exceeded your hourly bandwidth :) I just dumped Tripod about 2 months ago for that reason...finally put up something folks tried to see and actually ended up with the site down for 2 weeks because of exceeded bandwidth....finally ponied up for a pay site...$10/month--450meg/30gig bandwidth...no popups or ads...cheaper if you sign for a year.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect......Chief Seattle, 1854

pendarian ( ) posted Sun, 01 June 2003 at 4:53 PM

Looks good...the only thing I noticed was that Arthur's beard didn't move with his jaw/chin as he spoke :) Good start tho, very entertaining :)

Bobasaur ( ) posted Sun, 01 June 2003 at 6:38 PM

Pretty good! The next step that hasn't been mentioned is random movement. For example, have Dennis slowly move back and forth or side to side just a couple of degrees while Arthur is speaking. Also have Arthur do the same. Make it very small movement. The rationale is that no one stands perfectly still. This will help your characters look more natural. If you want to go the the trouble of trying to simulate breathing with the chest that would be great, too. Good start and keep us posted - this is fun!

Before they made me they broke the mold!
http://home.roadrunner.com/~kflach/

dirk5027 ( ) posted Sun, 01 June 2003 at 9:14 PM

how in the world do you get started doing this? i just love it, somebody point me to a beginners guide or something

adele ( ) posted Sun, 01 June 2003 at 9:14 PM

I thought Mimic would only work on one character. So do you can apply a separate track for each characters speech? How many is the max you can use? You learn something new everyday. Thanks, Adele

lhiannan ( ) posted Sun, 01 June 2003 at 9:46 PM

I used the newest version of Sound Recorder that comes with Windows and spliced 2 wav files together. Then generated a Pose in Mimic 1. Following Little Dragon's help, I applied this pose to both characters, then using the animation palette I deleted all the phenome movements from each character when they were not speaking. With this method, you could have infinite characters speaking in an animation.

lhiannan ( ) posted Mon, 02 June 2003 at 10:45 PM

Just to let any new viewers know, I am taking the avi down because of bandwith. I only wanted to show my latest efforts and gave it a day of viewing. If you want to see the animation (which isn't fantastic, I am very new at this), IM me and I'll work something out :)

Bobasaur ( ) posted Mon, 02 June 2003 at 11:37 PM

There's an Animation section in the Renderosity Free Stuff Section. It was the closest we could get to having an Animation Gallery (due to technology/server issues) at the time. When you have stuff ready to show, that's a god place to do it.

Before they made me they broke the mold!
http://home.roadrunner.com/~kflach/

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