face animation with SM internal graphics & random values

[philter5]

result of a funny afternoon SM session

EDIT : OSM removed...please pm if interested .... updated version comes asap

[tester]

Good addon for singing formant based synths somewhere around

[philter5]

Good addon for singing formant based synths somewhere around

great idea, never thought of that forgot to say that it uses one of your random number generators hehe

[trogluddite]

Ha ha, that is absolutely nuts!
The action with the mouth is amazing - so simple, yet really convincing. We have a guy at work who is deaf and is a master lip reader - maybe he can tell us what this little fellow is saying!!

[philter5]

Ha ha, that is absolutely nuts!
The action with the mouth is amazing - so simple, yet really convincing. We have a guy at work who is deaf and is a master lip reader - maybe he can tell us what this little fellow is saying!!

haha nice idea i am sure it would sound pretty unique

[pall]

I think first need to teach the vowels; a, e, i, o, u...

[tester]

SMiley Lama
if you remember the Delay lama

So we have the name!

[philter5]

i would love to do such a project, my problem is the lack of motivation when doing a project alone.

have i allready mentioned that i waste most of my SM time with prototyping things that are completely useless
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see the egyptian
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6454#p49207

or the hidden panel
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6335&p=48264&hilit=hidden+panel#p48063

but i have a lot of fun with SM, believe me.

[CoreStyler]

Lot of fun! nice.

[philter5]

little update: added paranoid mode (eyes will follow the mouse cursor)

EDIT: OSM removed

[CoreStyler]

little update: added paranoid mode (eyes will follow the mouse cursor)

you MUST do a synth with this face! will be really scary and funny! Sure 10k downloads for it!

[martinvicanek]

Yes, but it would be way cool to see him move to some music instead of just random. Like Pall said, teach him the vowels!

[jjs]

hahahaha this is fun!

great idea!

[philter5]

Yes, but it would be way cool to see him move to some music instead of just random. Like Pall said, teach him the vowels!

Using a bitmap-matrix as a animated knob would look a lot better and be easier to do (like the delay lama).
but i decided to keep the face build with SM-internal-graphics only. for a natural looking animation a few more things are needed. so if you want to keep this "project" alive (i´ll open a new thread in the project forum...but only if necessary)
then you can contribute the following GUI-modules or tips to :

good loking eyes with wimps and eyebrows
optimised mouth with teeth and tongue
main head with hair,ears and chin
nose with ultra-high-realistic 3d holes

maybe you have seen that i´ve used waves to animate the face. i think most of needed shapes are possible with that
let´s go !