omniVERSE wrote:
> 
> Could be that the mouth needs to start and end closed, not just remain
> open.
> It looked very good besides, I could easily lip-read it if I pretended
> to
> hear the spoken vowels (english of course).
> I took a look at Frankenvic again, a similar concept to yours here, a
> program so a character could speak what you typed in.  There was no
> name in
> the archive of that so I took a guess at who had made it, Remco de
> Korte
> apparently, my first guess.  I didn't see that particular
> frankenvic.exe
> mentioned at: http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Eremcodek/vic.html
> 
> Bob
> 
That program was made as simple demonstration of animated speech. I
tried synchronizing the movement with the sound but there are some
problems. In this case I based the synchronization on the typed text
which is of course not very smart. A character or series of characters
will be pronounced in more then one way according to the word, language,
dialect, etc. What it did show me was that when you simply have a moving
mouth it already does most of the trick. So to get a more or less
(semi-)realistic effect you're already 80% on the way if the mouth moves
with some extra points for other moving face- (or body-) parts. 
As Rick already mentioned it also helps if you start and end the
animation with a "rest" (closed mouth). It's quite easy to time this
right, especially programmatically. 
I have use this method with a series of speech scenes and I must say
that I'm rather pleased with the effect myself. A good voice-actor can
also do a lot.

While typing this I'm downloading the animation but it isn't finished
yet so I can't say much about that.
Oh, wait, it's in....
8)

It looks very good, you have a very smoothe moving mouth. The moving
eyes add a lot. I think it would improve if you'd move the head with it
as well and as Rick said: close your mouth every once in a while ;)
I understand this is just a study of the vowels. With the consonatns(?)
you'd have other lip movements as well.
Great work!

Remco

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