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Talking frogs? Hilarious, but how did they do it?
I just checked out this site:
And I wonder if they used AE or flash to make it. I also wonder how they made made the mouths move – I assume they made the audio, converted audio to keyframes, and linked an expression of the size of the mouth to the keyframes. But I notice that the head changes shape along with the movements of the mouth, so did they parent the head shape somehow to the mouth? And note the shadow behind the frogs. same deal?
I assume the blinks were not linked to any audio, but were added later, at random.
Anyone else have any ideas on how to do quick animation using the audio as the principle agent of change/
Thanks
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It’s Flash. Now, I’m not a Flash guy, but I once subbed out a project to a local Flash guru. He had a plugin for Flash that allows you to analyze the audio waveform and convert it into several different levels of loudness. Then, you create several different mouths, and can link those mouths to the different levels. So, depending on the changing volume of the audio, the software automatically adds each mouth where it deems appropriate. Play it back in real time, and you get what you see with the frogs. My project involved a talking dolphin!
Maybe you can do this in AE with Trapcode’s Soundkeys? I’ve never touched it myself. Or, ask your same question in the Flash forum…I’m sure you can get more info there!
Good luck!
Jon
TreeLine Productions
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Looks like just one animation per frog, from closed mouth to open.
You can use Trapcode Soundkeys or “Convert audio to keyframes” to trigger Time-remapping to go from closed on silence, to open on loudness.
You might want to smooth the resulting keyframes a bit.the eyes and other stuff can be done on different layers.
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I’m either thinking Trapcode’s Soundkeys, or Motion Math under the keyframe assistant, which I think only featured in AE 6.0.
Josh
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