Morphs Phonetix (Pose Morphs)

[VikLamant]

VikLamant submitted a new resource:

Phonetix (Pose Morphs) - Pose morphs ( currently just female ) for talking animations

CONTENTS
12 Female pose morphs related to speaking

NOTE
These pose morphs only affect the mouth, lips and jaw

WHY THIS?
I got frustrated using the vanilla phonemes to try and animate speaking in my animations because not only did...​

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[VikLamant]

Here's some things I've found so far in my early testing of animating my own speaking animations up against real life speaking movements...

For the initial quick test using "The quick brown fox jumped..." example, I actually had a video of a woman speaking to test my animation keyframe to keyframe against:

1) The mouth moves very fast and not every letter spoken needs to be used individually.
2) +.1 second apart per keyframe (smooth) in a quick speaking example such as this.
3) For quick, the Q keyframe uses some of K and W combined - for brown, the BR keyframe using some of B and R combined - for the X in fox, the keyframe uses K/X and SS combined - for jumped, one keyframe combines M and P and D - hopefully you get the picture.
4) For more realism, get some Jaw: Left, Right & Forward pose morphs that are out there as well as some Mouth: Left and Right pose morphs. Combine with your favorite facial expressions as well as Brows and Eyes for some stunning results.
5) Have fun!

 

[PortiaVam]

These morphs don't seem to be showing up for me. Any chance there's something wrong with how they're packaged?

 

[VikLamant]

These morphs don't seem to be showing up for me. Any chance there's something wrong with how they're packaged?

I've already had someone ask me the same question. If you download while game is active, just "Reload Custom Morphs" in the Female Morphs section. Let me know if that does or doesn't do the trick.

 

[PortiaVam]

I've already had someone ask me the same question. If you download while game is active, just "Reload Custom Morphs" in the Female Morphs section. Let me know if that does or doesn't do the trick.

Nope, that didn't do it either. I even downloaded it from my browser without VAM running, tried reloading custom morphs, etc., still nothing.

 

[VikLamant]

Nope, that didn't do it either. I even downloaded it from my browser without VAM running, tried reloading custom morphs, etc., still nothing.

Odd. I just double-triple checked and all the files are uploaded into the VAR package. No different than other Expression packages I've downloaded except the subfolder in Female has my username. Not sure what the issue is.

 

[PortiaVam]

Well, I wasn't able to get them working with the VAR package, but unpacking it and just putting them directly into the Custom/.../Morphs folder did work. Now that I got to test them out, gotta say, the morphs are really good and make lip-sync animations a ton faster and easier! These will definitely be a go-to for me from now on. Thanks!

 

[VikLamant]

Well, I wasn't able to get them working with the VAR package, but unpacking it and just putting them directly into the Custom/.../Morphs folder did work. Now that I got to test them out, gotta say, the morphs are really good and make lip-sync animations a ton faster and easier! These will definitely be a go-to for me from now on. Thanks!

Thanx for the update. Sorry the VAR didn't work for you. If you feel any of the morphs need improved upon or if an unlisted pose morph feels missing, just let me know.