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ISSUE 15 | MAR 2008

Blender learning made easy

Creating Cartoony animation

Learning the BGE

Blender Game Networking

Case Study BRE

- ‘Peach project gallery artwork‘

CONTENTS

Gaurav Nawani gaurav@blenderart.org

Sandra Gilbert sandra@blenderart.org

Taking Your Animation to the Next Level

Nam Pham

nam@blenderart.org

Gaurav, Sandra, Alex

Acting for Animation

Kevin Braun

Phillip Ryals

Bruce Westfall

Joshua Leung

Lynda Schemansky

Eric Pranausk

Noah Summers

Joshua Scotton

Mark Warren

Wade Bick

Patrick O'Donnell

Brian C. Treacy

Scott Hill

Henriel Veldtmann

Product Modeling: SDS and Details

Product Rendering

Hero's Blender Animation's

Facial Expresions in Stupidus

Clayton Moss

Brian Treacy

Dalibor Garic

Olivier Dressen

Claas Eicke Kuhnen

Keith Lango

Sandra Gilbert

Riste Sekuloski

Einstein Dwarf

Blender in a Classroom

‘Peach project gallery artwork‘

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EDITORIAL

I do not know about the rest of you, but watching

the Peach team's progress has re-awakened a not

very dormant desire to animate. Can you really

blame me? Breathing life into a character is the

ultimate in creative fun. Plus with "Big Buck Bunny"

due to premier soon, now is a great time to study

up on animation techniques.

lot from his massive list of things to check/do when

animating.

What are you waiting for? Get reading already.

Note: Several of this issue's articles make use of

Shape Keys. If you have not yet explored Blender's

Shape Keys or would just like to refresh your mem-

ory, here is a short list of tutorials and docs that

cover Shape Keys:

Managing Editor

Since animating is a broad discipline that covers far

more than just getting your character from point

"A" to point "B", it is often helpful to re-examine the

basics as well as study more advanced techniques.

That being the case, we will not only be looking at

the mechanics of motion (primarily arcs), but we

will also explore Blender's various tools for tracking

and visualizing those motions.

BlenderWiki

Blender 3D: Noob to Pro

BSoD | Introduction to Character

Animation/Shape Keys

BlenderWiki/Driven Shape Keys

Additionally, we will be taking a look at facial ani-

mation and expressions, in addition to learning

about phonemes and how they relate to lip sync-

ing. Then, once your character is ready for his ani-

mation debut, you need to enroll him in acting

lessons, with "Acting for Animation" by Clayton

Mosseven, because even virtual actors need to act

well.

Happy Blending!

sandra@blenderart.org

We also have a special treat for you. Keith Lango

has allowed us to include his article "Life After Pose

to Pose" in this issue. I guarantee you will learn a

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IZZY SPEAKS : ‘Sound Bytes’

across the floor as well as various other inanimate

objects. Now you have moved up to character anima-

tion. Your walk cycles are progressing and you are starting

to get the hang of timing, so now what? Well unless you

plan to stick with the "Tom and Jerry" style animation

where the characters never speak, next up is lip-syncing.

Lip-syncing of course requires recorded dialog of some

sort.

There are several options for getting recorded dialog. You

can talk your friends and/or family into an impromptu

recording session or you can use the services of "voice"

actors. You can often find student actors willing to do

“voice” work just for the practice or for very small fees.

And of course you can hire professionals, it all depends on

what your actual needs are.

A serious animation really should have voice actors, but a

lot of times, if you are just practicing or creating a short

little animation for fun, all you really need are some fast,

easy and unique voices.

If that is the case, you might want to look into "Voice

Changer" software. Often these programs are used for

funny pranks and answering machine messages as well as

for chatting online, but they can be rather useful to create

unique voices for your characters. Depending on the pro-

gram you choose, you can use a variety of preset “nick”

voices as well as create unique voices of your own by add-

ing various effects and adjusting the pitch, timbre and

speed of the recording. Here is a short list of fun, easy to

use programs I found.

ond Life, Galactic Voices, Male Voices, Personality

Voices, Sci-Fi Voices, Translator Fun Voices

Sound Effects : Ancient Weapon Sounds, Comic

Sound Pack, Fantasy Sound Pack, Farm Animal

Sounds, Sci-Fi 2 Sound Pack, Sci-Fi Sound Pack,

Spooky Sounds

Backgrounds: City Backgrounds, Nature Back-

grounds, Voice Backgrounds

Skins : Blue Satin Skin

A serious animation

really should have

voice actors

MP3 Player Morpher: (free) - Link

There are no preset 'nick voices" but they do have a

few setting or mode choices for creating unique

voices

just remember to write down your settings if you

want to use it again

Blaze Audio Voice Cloak Plus: 29.95, trial - Link

Unlimited Presets - You customize, name, then acti-

vate with a click!

50 Fresh Sounds - Original Acousticons* that will

rock your chat world!

Sayz Me - Link

While not a voice changer as such, the semi me-

chanical quality of the voices, make for some great

robotic/mechanical voices. If the Microsoft Voices

don't appeal to you, they have a list of others that

you can use with their engine.

MorphVox Pro: $39.95, free trial - Link

Available free add-ons:

Voice : Creatures of Darkness, Deep Space Voices,

Fantasy Voices, Female Voices, Furry Voices for Sec-

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Y ou did the bouncing ball and mastered a box sliding

IZZY SPEAKS : ‘Sound Bytes’

Once you have your recorded dialog you need an easy way

to help visualize the shapes needed for lip-syncing. There

are some nice programs available to create time-sheets to

sync animation to a pre-recorded audio track.

It is similar to the commercial program Magpie.

Well now that you have all the tools needed to start your

lip-syncing adventures, you might as well get started.

Yolo - Link

Yolo is a Java program for creating time-sheets to

sync animation to a prerecorded audio track. It is

similar to Lost Marble's Papagayo.

Yolo is written in Java, and should run under Win-

dows, Linux and OS X.

Yolo will automatically break the sentences into

words, and the words into phonemes. It displays the

results on the timeline:

Papagayo - Link

Papagayo is a lip-syncing program designed to help

you line up phonemes (mouth shapes) with the

actual recorded sound of actors speaking. Papagayo

makes it easy to lip-sync animated characters by

making the process very simple - just type in the

words being spoken (or copy/paste them from the

animation's script), then drag the words on top of

the sound's waveform until they line up with the

proper sounds.

Papagayo is free to download and use. Sync 'till your

virtual lips are sore! Papagayo is available for Win-

dows, Mac OS X and Linux.

JLipSync - Link

A Lip Sync program written in Java

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