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Clip with Kiersten, singing some bits of a Hanin Elias song
Hey folks! I'm tinkering with more animation studies right now and GOD am I rusted when it comes to lipsyncing! This is my first attempt after 6 years X_x
So I grabbed my fierce cat lady Kiersten, a cyperpunky hit girl type of character, and let her sing some bits of Hanin Elias' "Burn" - which perfectly fits her personality and voice :)
I also tossed in her artificial plasma claw lighting up its cutters ;D
Watch it on vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/44186017
Check out Hanin Elias, good stuff!
haninelias.com/
So I grabbed my fierce cat lady Kiersten, a cyperpunky hit girl type of character, and let her sing some bits of Hanin Elias' "Burn" - which perfectly fits her personality and voice :)
I also tossed in her artificial plasma claw lighting up its cutters ;D
Watch it on vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/44186017
Check out Hanin Elias, good stuff!
haninelias.com/
Category Flash / All
Species Housecat
Size 1280 x 720px
File Size 229 kB
Love the masking at the beginning, and the animation is pretty good after a long hiatus, the only thing that erks me is the "Mmm" or "way" movement on the lips, it seems a little slow compared to the voice, she does give off a husky voice, so the long drawn out wo motion would take a beat to finish. Otherwise excellent
That is really wonderful! Body movement and sync is really good and the editing really makes it pop!
Will say though that the lip movement does seem a touch stiff. It doesn't have the nuances of other details you've put in your animations so far, like the subtle toe-splay in your walk-cycle. But for your first time in 6 years it's pretty amazing! I think it's mostly down to a lack of pursing on the lips (well, lower lip) on certain words. From the front it's subtle, but from the side on it begins to look odd, like it's stuck.
Will say though that the lip movement does seem a touch stiff. It doesn't have the nuances of other details you've put in your animations so far, like the subtle toe-splay in your walk-cycle. But for your first time in 6 years it's pretty amazing! I think it's mostly down to a lack of pursing on the lips (well, lower lip) on certain words. From the front it's subtle, but from the side on it begins to look odd, like it's stuck.
Ahh, just the comment I made got hidden, and I couldn't read the reply because that got hidden too, heh.
Either way, looks awesome, very smooth. Only crit would be maybe making the 'oo' mouth shape a bit more pronounced/exaggerated? That's the only nitpick I can think of. Love the 3D stuff =]
Either way, looks awesome, very smooth. Only crit would be maybe making the 'oo' mouth shape a bit more pronounced/exaggerated? That's the only nitpick I can think of. Love the 3D stuff =]
gotta say that the intro was awesome... the shadow of Kiersten with that evil smile makes it pretty much an evil song as well. An evil-some great song, plus with her face...
In MY opinion, it just needs a little more practice, because some words requires more movement in the lips (example: when she says "why do I have to hear you". The lips of her actually seems to say "yah". Or so I think). But, hell... for 6 years since the last time, is perfect. The following words after "...to hear you", to the end of the song, are more accurate in the movement and is much more realistic.
Sir, I congratulate you for such a success. *gives you a cookie-shaped golden prize*
In MY opinion, it just needs a little more practice, because some words requires more movement in the lips (example: when she says "why do I have to hear you". The lips of her actually seems to say "yah". Or so I think). But, hell... for 6 years since the last time, is perfect. The following words after "...to hear you", to the end of the song, are more accurate in the movement and is much more realistic.
Sir, I congratulate you for such a success. *gives you a cookie-shaped golden prize*
Just... amazing. There are no words to describe just how badass that video is...
I've been wanting to do some 3D modelling/animation like that for ages... but seeing yours just so lifelike and freaking awesome... I don't think I could ever compare, really... You are a GOD of these animations, man...
I've been wanting to do some 3D modelling/animation like that for ages... but seeing yours just so lifelike and freaking awesome... I don't think I could ever compare, really... You are a GOD of these animations, man...
don't give up to try!
Who knows... you don't have to compare yourself with others about how could your animations could be compared to their work. Also, take in mind that [in this case] zorryn have years animating. In some years, you could ever be better or close-to his *current* level
Who knows... you don't have to compare yourself with others about how could your animations could be compared to their work. Also, take in mind that [in this case] zorryn have years animating. In some years, you could ever be better or close-to his *current* level
I'm working on one :) I picture Kiersten to be some torn Character, mad to the bone. Not sure what she was before her terrible accident, but now she is one of the most dangerous and unregistered animats out there. She usally gets contracted by humans to do certian... jobs. Sometimes she teams up with Torumo, a wolfis mercenary, I'm planning right now.
Oh geez, now you're putting together a full show? Awesome =)
You're leading the way on non-creepy CG anthro art, and its very welcome! Must be goddamn tiring to take care of all the aspects of the modelling, rigging, animating and lighting though. Urgh. Hopefully you recycle some of that stuff to cut production time in future
I think you made it a little tough for yourself picking a song with such eddied vocals though. It suits the character personally great, but its difficult to align to mouth poses because of how unnatural it sounds.
You should grab some cool voice talent from this site and make a bond villain scene or something. Maybe one of those threat/demand videos villains make. It'll likely sync a lot cleaner, and then you can add synth effects afterwards
You're leading the way on non-creepy CG anthro art, and its very welcome! Must be goddamn tiring to take care of all the aspects of the modelling, rigging, animating and lighting though. Urgh. Hopefully you recycle some of that stuff to cut production time in future
I think you made it a little tough for yourself picking a song with such eddied vocals though. It suits the character personally great, but its difficult to align to mouth poses because of how unnatural it sounds.
You should grab some cool voice talent from this site and make a bond villain scene or something. Maybe one of those threat/demand videos villains make. It'll likely sync a lot cleaner, and then you can add synth effects afterwards
Absolutely awesome. She needs a tongue though. Also I believe if you look around you can find an exaggerated referance sheet on the shape the mouth should be while pronouncing certain letters. It really does help! ^..~ I'll post it if I find it agian. Beautiful smooth animation otherwise.
Love the setup and environment for this. The fish eye lens background and silhouette & emoticon face is amazing. The lip sync looked good and flowed along with the lyrics, but it seemed like it was missing something unique. Usually I tell my students to create a library of the phonetic mouth shapes, but then to also create a couple variations of each to make sure that their character doesn't uniformly use the same movements for similar phonetic patterns. It makes it look more human to have times where the mouth (even though uses the same O mouth shape for "ooo" sounds) shape is different slightly, or has a more exaggerated form of the O shape. changing things up like that makes it interesting to look at the character, more appealing.
If you want to see a character who is ridiculous with facial expressions and mouth shapes, look at Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones when she talks, she is ALL over the place (especially with her eye brows).
Anyway just my two cents. This stuff is amazing and I hope you keep making more. Thank you for showcasing this.
If you want to see a character who is ridiculous with facial expressions and mouth shapes, look at Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones when she talks, she is ALL over the place (especially with her eye brows).
Anyway just my two cents. This stuff is amazing and I hope you keep making more. Thank you for showcasing this.
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