LIFESTUDIO:LIPSYNC Plug-In for Maya

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LIFESTUDIOLIPSYNC Plug-In for Maya
LIFESTUDIOLIPSYNC Plug-In for Maya
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LIFESTUDIOLIPSYNC Plug-In

• creates smooth animation graphs to control
  articulation of your character in Maya

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Overview

• Key steps
• Using LIFESTUDIOLIPSYNC plug-in
• Create LSLS tracks (animation graphs) by parsing
  the speech sound
• Using regular Maya
• Connect the tracks to your Mayas model
• Enjoy lip-sync animations!
• Edit animation graphs if needed

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Overview

• Key steps
• LIFESTUDIOLIPSYNC plug-in creates LSLS tracks
  (animation graphs) for you by parsing the speech
  sound
• Use regular Maya to
• Connect the tracks to your Mayas model
• Watch lip-sync animations
• Edit animation graphs if needed

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Procedures
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Creating LSLS Tracks

• Select a speech sound file to process

This menu
Select a speech file
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Creating LSLS Tracks

• Wait a bit...

... till the speech file is parsed
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Creating LSLS Tracks

• LSLS tracks are added to Mayas scene

LSLIPSYNC nodesadded in Outliner
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Creating LSLS Tracks

• Make sure the audio track is enabled

Use contextmenu
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About LIFESTUDIOLIPSYNC Tracks

• Main tracks define lip-rounding

and jaw movement
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About LIFESTUDIOLIPSYNC Tracks

• Tracks for consonants allow articulation accents

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About LIFESTUDIOLIPSYNC Tracks

• You can apply LSLS tracks

to control anything in Maya
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Connecting LSLS Tracks to Mayas Models

• Its up to you which techniques to choose to get
  animated models
• In this example we use Mayas Blend Shape

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Preparing a Head Model for LSLS Tracks

• Import morph targets created for this example

File Import menu
Morph targetmeshesadded
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Preparing a Head Model for LSLS Tracks

• Select meshes to create Blend Shape

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Preparing a Head Model for LSLS Tracks

• In menu, click Deform - Create Blend Shape

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Preparing a Head Model for LSLS Tracks

• A Blend Shape object is successfully created

Blend Shape added
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Connecting LSLS Tracks

• In Outliner, select LSLS entry
• In Connection Editor, click Reload Left

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Connecting LSLS Tracks

• In Outliner, select Blend Shape entry
• In Connection Editor, click Reload Right

Expand Weightsfor better viewing
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Connecting LSLS Tracks

• Connect LSLS tracks, one by one,to Blend
  Shape morph targets

Set connections
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Watching LSLS Animations

• Play lip-sync animation

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Editing LSLS Animation Graphs

• Note a defect mouth opened when no sound is
  present

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Editing LSLS Animation Graphs

• A consonant was wrongly added in this position

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Editing LSLS Animation Graphs

• Select the wrong points...

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Editing LSLS Animation Graphs

• ... then delete the wrong points

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Editing LSLS Animation Graphs

• Defect fixed mouth is closed now

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