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Make a rat talk? – How do you do it?
Got a short story in development where the main character will be a live rat. It only has a couple of lines. Anyone have any suggestions to make this happen? Wondering if you can use the audio keyframes to add an expression to a selected area…his mouth?
Thanks
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You might want to look into the Dr. Doolittle DVD making. what they did was motion tracked the face and made the animation seperately.
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There was a discussion here a little while ago about using time remapping controlled by an expression.
I think you could get a shot of the rat’s mouth open and one of it closed, then use the audio-to-keyframes feature to create a set of time remapping keyframes to sync up the rat to the voice. Unfortunately i can’t help you with the expressions bit, but maybe a search here would find you the answer.
Good luck
Graham
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You can always try the Mr. Ed method…
Give the animal a bit of peanut butter to smack its lips on…
That’s what they did for the horse on the Mr Ed show…They smeared a bit of peanut butter on his bridle & bit and let him try to lick it to get get his lips to move..
–Very low tech idea–For more control I would go with the time-remapping & expression
…or if you have time and $$, for complete & total control go the 3D animation route…Just my two cents…
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