Incredible work, Rune.  Your animations are just stupendous! Considering there
aren't any actual "lips" present, however, are you going to add support for
different lip sizes?  i.e. creating an ethnic variance?

Lawrence

Rune wrote:

> I'm working on a system to do lip synch. I already made an animation where
> AL the Alien talks back in November 2000, but the system I'm working on now
> is much more flexible and powerful than what I had back then.
>
> For any lip pose you can specify the weight, so you for example can have
> anything between a little "o" and a roaring "OH!" by specifying a number
> from 0 to 1. It also supports weighted lip poses, so you can average
> multiple phoneme poses and/or expression poses.
>
> The lips to be animated consist of four bicubic patches. You have some
> control over how the mouth looks, but not very much unfortunately. So you
> can use them for certain toony characters, but you can't adapt them to any
> character you might have.
>
> The attached animation is a test of the system. I still need to implement
> support for tongues (which is a major thing), but besides that the system is
> fairly complete.
>
> As always, comments are much appreciated! :)
>
> Also, if I made an include file of this system, would anybody have a use for
> it?
>
> Rune
> --
> 3D images and anims, include files, tutorials and more:
> Rune's World:    http://rsj.mobilixnet.dk (updated Jan 2)
> POV-Ray Users:   http://rsj.mobilixnet.dk/povrayusers/
> POV-Ray Webring: http://webring.povray.co.uk
>
>                 Name: lips1.mpg
>    lips1.mpg    Type: Wmplayer File (video/mpg)
>             Encoding: x-uuencode

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