LIFESTUDIO:LIPSYNC PlugIn 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

• Service areas
• 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

• As easy as 1 2 3

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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

• Get LSLS tracks added to Mayas scene

Lip-Sync dataadded in Outliner
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Creating LSLS Tracks

• as easy as 1-2-3?
• Indeed its easier.

Its 1
one step to get lip-sync data
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About LIFESTUDIOLIPSYNC Tracks

• LSLS tracks define lip-rounding

and jaw movement
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About LIFESTUDIOLIPSYNC Tracks

• You can apply LSLS tracks

to control whatever you want 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 the following example we use

Mayas Blend Shape
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Preparing a Head Model for LSLS Tracks

• Load morph shapes pre-created for this example

UseFile 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 node is successfully created

Blend Shape added
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Creating or Updating LSLS Tracks

• Select a speech sound file to process

This menu
Select a speech file
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Creating or Updating LSLS Tracks

• Get LSLS tracks added to Mayas scene

Lip-Sync dataadded in Outliner
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Creating or Updating LSLS Tracks

• Make sure the audio track is enabled

Use contextmenu
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Connecting LSLS Tracks

• In Outliner, select an LSLS_Phonemes entry
• In Connection Editor, click Reload Left

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Connecting LSLS Tracks

• In Outliner, select a 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

• You can edit LSLS tracks

using general Maya editors
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