LIFESTUDIO:LIPSYNC Plug-In for Maya

LIFESTUDIO:LIPSYNC Plug-In for Maya

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LIFESTUDIO:LIPSYNC Plug-In

• creates smooth animation graphs to control articulation

of your character in Maya

Overview

“Service areas”:

•LIFESTUDIO:LIPSYNC plug-in creates LSLS tracks (animation graphs) for you by parsing the speech sound

•Use regular Maya to:

–Connect the tracks to your Maya’s model

–Watch lip-sync animations

–Edit animation graphs if needed

Procedures

“… As easy as

1 – 2 – 3 …”

Creating LSLS Tracks

1) Select a speech sound file to process

This menu

Select a speech file

Creating LSLS Tracks

... till the speech file is parsed

2) Wait a bit...

Creating LSLS Tracks

Lip-Sync dataadded in Outliner

3) Get LSLS tracks added to Maya’s scene

… as easy as 1-2-3?

Indeed it’s easier.

Creating LSLS Tracks…

– one step to get lip-sync data

It’s 1

About LIFESTUDIO:LIPSYNC Tracks

• LSLS tracks define lip-rounding and jaw movement

About LIFESTUDIO:LIPSYNC Tracks

•You can apply LSLS tracks

to control whatever you want in Maya

Connecting LSLS Tracks to Maya’s Models

• It’s up to you which techniques to choose to get animated models

• In the following example we use

Maya’s Blend Shape

Preparing a Head Model for LSLS Tracks

•Load morph shapes pre-created for this exampleUseFile

menu

Morph targetmeshesadded

Preparing a Head Model for LSLS Tracks

•Select meshes to create Blend Shape

Preparing a Head Model for LSLS Tracks

• In menu, click Deform - Create Blend Shape

Preparing a Head Model for LSLS Tracks

•A Blend Shape node is successfully created

Blend Shape added

• Select a speech sound file to process

Creating or Updating LSLS Tracks

This menu

Select a speech file

• Get LSLS tracks added to Maya’s scene

Creating or Updating LSLS Tracks

Lip-Sync dataadded in Outliner

Creating or Updating LSLS Tracks

•Make sure the audio track is enabled

Use contextmenu

Connecting LSLS Tracks

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

Connecting LSLS Tracks

• In Outliner, select a Blend Shape entry•In Connection Editor, click Reload Right

Expand Weightsfor better viewing

Connecting LSLS Tracks

•Connect LSLS tracks, one by one,to Blend Shape morph targets

Set connections

Watching LSLS Animations

•Play lip-sync animation

Editing LSLS Animation Graphs

•You can edit LSLS tracksusing general Maya editors

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