Now we're going to do an animation recording.
Live with our sound and our visuals, our facial animation happening in real time at the same time.
So to do that first, let's clear out our timeline.
Let's go ahead down here and get rid of our.
One that we were working on before or save seen in a different under a different name, if you want
to keep this one, I'm just going to go ahead and delete that and then delete our expression track.
So we're back to an empty timeline.
Remember, he's blinking here, remember how we can stop that if we want, we can just go over here
to our.
Parameters tab.
So he's hiding way at the top.
Auto blinkx normal, we just select none, and now there won't be any automatic blinking in the program,
it will be added through our live face out in this situation, we're going to need audacity open.
So go ahead and open up your audacity program.
I have mine right here in another tab, so it's ready to go.
And what we're going to do is we're going to be starting our sound first, we're going to roll sound
first, and then we're going to go over here and we will start our animation.
And in this particular exercise, we're going to say the same thing we were saying before.
Hi, my name is Hector and I'm a funny looking guy and we're going to do it three times.
We're going to do it with three different voice inflections, same words, just different inflections.
So we're going to do three takes in the same recording.
So that's our goal here.
That's what we're going to strive for.
So have your iPhone Leive face app all hooked up.
I'm going to get mine in front of me here and make sure that you are hooked up to your if you have it
hooked up to the hard wired Cat five cable.
And we go over here to our animation tab.
I know this is repetitive for some of you, but I always like to go over this several times.
Down to emotion live, and this will open up our window and then over here, make sure that we have
the IP address that's showing in your life face.
Mine is one nine two one six eight, one, two, two, three.
And most important, remember, don't delete out the colon nine nine nine.
Without that, it will not work because that's the port.
So over here we click the live face button.
It turns to green and as long as this is checked, we're ready to go.
If it's not checked, you go over here.
Click on it and then select Live Face without that, it won't work either.
OK, let's just test it out now.
Let's hit the preview button, hold up your phone in front of your face.
And set the zero pose.
Press the space key space bar and.
Let's just make sure that our character is moving, looking good.
OK?
So that's looking great.
We have everything set.
Another thing is make sure that record audio for Visi Track is unchecked.
We don't want to do that right now.
So leave that unchecked.
And.
Going to go over to audacity now, this is where it gets a little bit tricky.
Because we have to start the recording here in Audacity and then we have to go back over here and we
have to start our record, hit the spacebar button, our space key.
Do our performance capture when we're done there, we pause and we go over here and we stop, so that's
a lot of moving around after you do it for a while.
It's no big deal.
But initially it's kind of cumbersome and it's a little bit tricky.
So just be aware of that.
Don't be afraid of it.
If you mess up, just start all over again, that's all.
It's really easy.
No harm, no foul here.
OK, so we have this set.
We need to go into audacity and make sure that we have.
A microphone selected, which nothing is showing here.
So I'm going to reopen.
Now that I've reopened my audacity, my microphone is showing up here.
Microphone blew snowball.
Now, another good thing to do is to use headphones, either your ear earbuds for your phone or plug,
plug some type of headphones into your speakers because you don't want to be recording.
Over your speakers, you don't want to hear that coming out, so monitor through your speakers with
headphones or earbuds.
OK, so we're going to be editing out a lot of the unnecessary stuff, so we just go ahead and hit record
and I'm just recording along and here we go.
Now, I'm going to go back over to Cyclone.
And we're ready to go here.
We're going to hit the record button.
Ready to hit the spacebar key and do our first line of dialogue, which is, again, it's going to be,
hi, my name is Hector in the cartoon voice, and I'm a funny looking guy and we're going to do it three
times with a different voice inflection.
So here we go.
Hi, my name is Hector, and I'm a funny looking guy.
My name is Hector and I'm a funny looking guy.
Hi, my name is Hector, and I'm a funny looking guy.
All right, now we go over to audacity and we hit stop now over here in Audacity.
We've got to do some cleanup.
So let's just start this.
We go back to the beginning of our audio track right about here.
I don't need any of the beginning stuff, so go ahead and click and drag.
Hold it down all the way to the beginning.
And then we press delete.
And this is the beginning of the dialogue, so I'm going to go ahead and clean all this up to where
all we have are the three dialogues.
The three hi, my name is Hector.
Now that we have our dialogue track edited down with all the junk, so to speak, cut out of it, we
have just our three lines of dialogue here, spoken in different inflections while we're in audacity.
Let's go ahead and sample some of this noise.
So select some of the blank spots, go to effect.
And then down to noise reduction and then get noise profile.
And now.
Starting at the beginning of your track, select the whole the whole track.
Go to effect.
And then go to noise reduction.
And select, OK, just leaving it with the defaults and we'll see that the.
Noise in between.
Our words have now disappeared.
OK, so just by doing that, that's going to help our dialogue sound so much better.
So now we want to do is we need to export the audio, export it as a wave file.
And I'm a funny looking guy, and we'll call this one.
We just put a hey, hey, I'm a funny looking guy, so we know this is the one that we record is different
from the other one.
So I'll go ahead and say that.
Now, back over into cyclone, we can go ahead and close down motion live for now.
He's going to say to you, sure, you want to disconnect the server, yeah, because we can always just
open it up again.
And we need to.
We already have a sound track here from before, and we have our new expression clip right here, this
is what we we recorded, so we don't want to delete that.
There it is, but we have no sound, we need to bring it in, so we go up here to funny looking guy,
this track, our little dropdown arrow, and we check the sound, which will give us a track.
Now, down here at the very bottom, moving over into the timeline, we right.
Click Select Import.
This will open up our window and this is the one we want.
Hey, I'm a funny looking guy now because my play hits here.
I didn't move it to the beginning.
It's going to bring it right in there.
Remember, we want a voice track, not just a soundtrack.
So we apply.
And here is our voice track right here.
TaskRabbit.
And move it to the front.
OK, now we're going to have to do some adjustments, but first let's play it back and see what it sounds
like, see how close we are.
Hi, my name is Hucker, and I'm a funny looking guy, we can tell that our sound is way off.
So what we need to do is we need to slide the audio using its forward.
What we the easiest way to do it is to scrub.
And see where he starts to open his mouth for high, we want this play had to be right at the beginning
of that sound.
So move this right at the beginning of the first word and then it should get us pretty close.
Hi, my name is Hector, and I'm a funny looking guy.
Slide a little, a little bit more.
Hi, my name is Hector, and I'm a funny looking guy.
Hey, my name is Hector, and I'm a funny looking guy.
Hi, my name is Hector, and I'm a funny looking guy.
All right, we did it.
So now we have three different takes to choose from.
Pick the one you want, save them all, whatever you want to do, whatever is best for your workflow.
But this is how you do animating in real time with the live face app right here in Achelen.
Now, remember, how do we save this?
Because we don't want to lose our hard work.
I mean, we're always going to be saving our.
Project.
Be sure to do that often, but we want to go over to our animation and then we go to motion, plus because
this has audio as well as animation, then we want to go over to our custom.
And.
Motion plus, remember here how we had saved some before.
We want to go ahead and let's just move back a little bit to the beginning.
We want to go ahead and save this.
And we'll call this.
Hey, I'm a funny guy.
Now, this is going to save this for us, so all that facial animation, the audio and everything is
going to be saved.
For us right here in our custom tab, another way to save is to go up here to the collect clip and you
start and you drag left, click and drag in this track, left, click all the way for the whole thing.
And then on this track, you right click and you go add motion plus to library.
And it's going to come up here and say, you want the motion facial animation all the spring states,
this is more for body.
Animation and you want all of this and all this stuff is already checked for us, the sound and all
that kind of stuff, and then you click, OK, and this will bring up your save window for us to save
it in the motion.
Plus.
Haria.
I prefer just doing it this way because it's easier to save some steps, but that's the process.
If you want to just save a portion of the animation, like let's let's say that you just decided you
wanted the second take, you would just.
Go down here and in the clip, you go like this.
And this is the only part of the animation that's going to save, so you would do that.
It's how you would do it.
Add motion plus to library.
All right, give yourself a huge pat on the back, because what you've just gone through, this whole
process is pretty advanced and it's highly technical.
I know it's been boring.
I try to make it not boring, but it's kind of hard because there's so many little details in here.
But you've really come a long way.
So practice doing this.
Just review the video again if you need to walk through it a couple of times, because it is it's got
a lot of moving parts in here.
But this is the basics of how you will do a facial animation.
And then like before, to add the body animation to this facial animation, we would just go up to the
motion puppet.
And then we would go in here into the moods or the move or whichever one, and we would just select
these.
Edit the various parameters that we have here.
It and then record to add body animation to your really cool facial animation that you have.
So that is the workflow for doing the live face recording audio in a double system sound way, and then
bringing the audio back into a cyclone, ready to sync up so that the lip sync matches up.
In the next video, we're going to cover very briefly how we can layer animations on top of this.