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Puppet tool feasibility or rather, how to animate an animal talking!
Hi all,
Ever since I bought AE I’ve been wondering if it could be used to animate a dog talking like so many of those commercials out there today. Been meaning to tinker around to see what I could do with either the Puppet tool or the Liquify effect but have two problems:1) Can’t get my Golden Retriever puppy to sit still long enough to get some workable footage
2) Don’t really have the time anyway
So, just a general question / topic for discussion – anyone think AE is a solution for this and if so, how would you go about it?
Thanks in advance!
–KTFA
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6 Replies
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most of the time, it’s done with 3D. They animate part of the dog (his mouth) and composite that with the footage of the dog.
I don’t know how you would make it work convincingly without a way to manipulate the lips and teeth
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Makes a lot of sense.. Guess I’ll have to get better with Blender if I want to do this someday!
Thanks Ron!
–KTFA
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I once made a parrot in live footage talk, using the CC split plug in.
I used an expression to link the opening of the mouth to the soundtrack.Kool En De Anderen
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Cool – I’ll check it out – good thing for me is that, at this point in my life, this is only a hobby – so most of what I do will be ok (perhaps even funnier) if it’s a little cheesy. And if I try this for a video, it’ll be something funny. But then again, I am considering getting back into video production work – I miss it too much…
–KTFA
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You could always try the “Mr Ed” technique.
Place a large “glob” of peanut butter in the mouth of your puppy. Shoot the scenes of the puppy trying to get the peanut butter off his tongue and inner cheeks.
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Might this be a job for Motion Morph?
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