Overview

Digital animation technology has improved so much that it’s now possible to animate your own talking heads from your home PC. CrazyTalk promises to give you all the tools you need to import images and photographs before quickly applying mouth, head and eye movement to create realistic looking avatars and fun animations.

At first users might be a little skeptical about the value of CrazyTalk, Give it a try though and you'll be pleasantly surprised by the power of the utility. Granted, most peoples' initial efforts with the program will likely be limited to taking pictures of friends and adding famous song or movie audio clips to them just for kicks. These first experiments in CrazyTalk will be a little clunky and look far from realistic when you rely on the automatic lip-syncing functionality.

Features

Once you delve deeper into CrazyTalk's settings though, you'll start to realize that you can actually produce some impressive animations.

With enough tinkering you can customize everything in CrazyTalk, from the teeth in the character’s mouth to their facial movements and their range of movement. Best of all is the built-in timeline, which gives you complete control of the animation and sound, much as you would do in Flash, or a video-editing suite.

CrazyTalk offers alpha channel support, making it ideal for producing talking images to welcome visitors to your web site or in presentations. The simple-to-use export facilities also allow you to save to a range of formats as a media file, email attachment or a personalized greeting.

There are a few flaws with CrazyTalk that are a little frustrating though. The auto lip sync feature isn't all that impressive or accurate, for one, and there's no support for MP3 format audio. There also aren't all that many preset templates to work from, which might be bothersome to some users.

CrazyTalk requires some getting used to, but once you get the hang of it you'll be able to create unique facial animations.

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Crazy Talk Animator allows you to combine images, videos and flash animations into impressive 2D creations. This includes the ability to add actors, create scenes or landscapes and add special effects. Like most 2D OR 3D modelling packages, Crazy Talk Animator is not easy to use but it does have several easy to follow tutorials and web resources to help you create your animations step by step.

The first step is to take a photo of your face. Crazy Talk Animator then teaches you how to animate it by giving you a few simple phrases to animate. This involves marking points of facial expression which Crazy Talk Animator uses to morph and animate it.

The possibilities are endless with Crazy Talk Animator and with some patience and dedication, you can create some really impressive animations. Note that to get more from Crazy Talk Animator, you need to download a resource pack which is available from the author's website.

Crazy Talk Animator Pro is a powerful 2D animating package although does require some time to learn.

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