We're ready to do our first performance animation, and for this, we're going to be using the looping
technique, so the first thing we need to do is to import our sound.
The dialogue that we recorded for funny looking guy in Audacity, so what we need to do is we need to
go down here into our timeline under funny looking guy, little dropdown arrow here, because all we're
showing I've kind of deleted some tracks because I want to remind you how to how to find things, because,
trust me, you'll get lost as I did, because things are really well hidden and nested throughout here.
So we go to this dropdown arrow and we need the sound track.
So that's the first thing we need to do.
So go ahead and select the soundtrack and move into the timeline and.
Right.
Click and we're going to get import.
We're going to import.
And when I find it, I see it's called I'm a funny looking guy, so I'm going to select that and I'm
going to click open and it's going to ask me if I want a voice track or a soundtrack.
I'm going to keep it on the voice track here.
Now, what we need to do is we need to go back to funny looking guy here, we need to go up here to
this VCM or however you say that.
Click that, and now we can see down here in our timeline, I'm a funny looking guy, let's just drag
it closer to the beginning here.
And we can see our waveform for the audio as well.
With the key on my keyboard selected, I'm using the scroll mouse so that I can.
Bring it better interview so I can see the entire track here, so let's play that back.
Let's just put our play head at the beginning here and let's press play.
Hi.
My name is Hector and I'm a funny looking guy.
A good there's our audio track and it sounds really good, and we follow along with the play ahead and
you can see where the waveforms are to kind of open and close your mouth as we do this to loop the dialogue
as if you you were saying it.
So let's try that, let's get our phone, bring mine in front of me now.
We still got it hooked up to live face.
Everything is still and we need to go back and click our button so we're fully connected again.
This would be a good place to recalibrate.
So you want to do your set zero post again looking directly into your iPhone app with the live face
open and running.
Set zero pose.
OK.
Press the preview and then the spacebar just to make sure is Hektor and I'm a funny looking guy, OK,
this time we're going to record it.
It's not going to be perfect because we're just learning how to use the controls.
We just want to work our way through the process here.
Very important is we need to go up here under our motion live tab and uncheck this box where it says
record audio for Visi Track.
Otherwise, we'll record right over our imported audio and we don't want to do that.
So make sure that's unchecked, otherwise you'll blast this out.
So what we're going to do now, get your iPhone in your hand, looking into your iPhone, we press record
and then our space bar and we'll be ready to lip sync to this track high.
My name is Hector and I'm a funny looking guy.
OK.
Let's play that back.
Hi.
My name is Hector and I'm a funny looking guy, OK?
It wasn't very good, but.
The mouth opened and closed at approximately the right place, you can see that what this takes with
this particular method is it takes a lot of practice and you have to be very familiar with each line
of dialogue.
So this wouldn't be the ideal way.
But it is a way that you can take some high quality dialogue tracks that have been prerecorded and then
animate to that.
Let's try this again.
Set my zero pose again on the phone.
Press the space bar, hi.
My name is Hector, and I'm a funny looking guy.
I like that one better.
Let's play it back and see what that one looks like.
Hi.
My name is Hector and I'm a funny looking guy.
OK, so you can see that what this is, it's just take after take after take, just like you would do
in a real filming situation if you were doing a live action flick.
You know, you're just going to have to do take after take.
In the next video, we're going to do something that I think it's more fun because we're recording the
the audio and the animation at the same time, it's a little trickier if you're by yourself, because
you've got to start audacity and you've got to start.
I clone all the record buttons, you know, at the at the same time.
And then you've got to import the audio in.
But it's it's a very effective way to do it.
So we'll be doing that next.