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Automatic Lip Synchronization Plugin for LightWave | Solve Nonrealistic Facial Animation

This plugin offers automatic lip synchronization for CGI animations in LightWave, reducing the need for hand-coding and improving realism. By utilizing motion capture during voice track recording with a noninvasive marker system, it enhances character facial animations with maximum detail and minimum interference, catering to non-human faces and supporting additional features like extra tongue plugin and eye tracking.

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Automatic Lip Synchronization Plugin for LightWave | Solve Nonrealistic Facial Animation

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  1. An Automatic Lip Synchronisation plugin for LightWave Jennifer Matlock Superviser: Shaun Bangay

  2. The Problem • CGI animation booming • Character facial animation often nonrealistic • Lots of lipsynch still hand-coded • Mostly unnecessary • Animation movements given when actor records vocal track

  3. A Recent Example: Final Fantasy • Huge budget • Amazing special effects • Great character modelling • Huge losses • Thin plot • Bad character animation

  4. The Solution • Motion capture during voice track taping • Full-face helmet • Maximum detail • Minimum interference • Noninvasive marker system

  5. Marker layout

  6. Process Movie Plugin Stage 1 Point Database LightWave Plugin Stage 2

  7. Extensions • Non-human faces • Full-facial motion capture [not tongue] • Extra tongue plugin • Eye tracker

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