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» Review Reallusion CrazyTalk 4.1
(October 2006)

 Reallusion CrazyTalk 4.1 Released

The Ultimate Human Interface

Facial Animation & Lip-sync Software
Use CrazyTalk in:

Pro Video Editing, Home Movies, Family Photos, & Multimedia Presentations
Create and control a virtual cast of live talking characters ready to deliver an animated vocal performance for your video, web, mobile or messaging projects. Just a single photograph, recorded or imported audio, and CrazyTalk's powerful facial morphing animation technology is all you need to begin creating speaking actors, guides, and digital hosts adding perfect personalities to any multimedia experience.

CrazyTalk Key Features :

Facetrix, photo-based 3D facial morphing technology

CrazyTalk's industry-leading 3D photo morphing Facetrix technology lets you import any facial image and bring it to life via a simple fitting process. Once the image is bonded with CrazyTalk 3D head framework, your talking character is able to lipsync with any speech and exhibit unlimited expressions and gestures (such as smiling, frowning, crying and laughing).

Create 3D talking characters from a single photo and audio, real human, comic illustration, or pet photos.

Photo editing - Load photos from any device, Rotate, Crop, Resize, Enhance before face fitting

Photo fitting technology automation of face fitting, auto fitting and 3 manual modes of facial fitting adjustment

Advanced Face Settings - fake eyes, fake teeth
Use Mask to create custom photo background, ensure realistic

3D head movement
Various Live stand-by modes to display the avatar's characteristics

Apply realistic facial expressions and face morph effects during talking animation

Expressix, speech animation technology
CrazyTalk's speech technology, Expressix, analyzes the audio of your talking messages and provides lipsync between the character and the audio. You can also add animated comic effects to dramatize your message.

 

To create a talking message you can record your own voice, import a wav file or type in a text message. Then adjust your voice with the Audio Morphing Filter.

Record your own voice or Import pre-recorded wave files

Voice Lipsync Analysis
Type any text message to be read back, Microsoft SAPI4, SAPI-5 Text-To-Speech compliance for serious business applications

Proprietary Expressix creates natural lip-sync animation from audio and text
Adjust and alter your voice nature with Audio Morphing Filter
Custom emotions & gestures

Animated SFX and custom Emotives

Add independent Music Background

Timeline editor
CrazyTalk Sequence Editor is an advanced editing interface designed to produce the professional animation output, designer can fully master the animation sequence through the timeline interface, product perfect lipsync result, and build distinctive human nature control individual elements such as head movement, Eyes ball movement,

Expression, Special Effects, head, shoulder and lip (mouth shape) tracks

Quick editing, users can group select, copy and paste, shift animation key location, strength directly from the timeline

Advanced fine tuning: click icons on the sequence interface to bring dialog box and adjust parameters
Timeline editor can perfectly work with IM as the talking head editing interface, save edit result then update

iClone face animation settings

CrazyTalk content manager
A convenient tool to assist you in managing your collection of talking images and talking messages. Content can be added, edited, deleted and moved, the same folders are also shared with iClone (3D character animation tool) as common design assets

Organize and categorize content files

Add, move, delete, copy, paste categories and content files

One-click preview function
Quick links for importing or exporting

Flexible media output
Custom size video output, DVD quality output, a comprehensive range of different output formats for the home, office and web.

Large Size (DVD video quality) output, MPEG-4 Video with adjustable bit rates, etc.

Targa (TGA) with Alpha channel output

WMV (Streaming Media), AVI, RM (RealMedia)

Compatible with Office documents & FlashMX

CELP (MPEG-4) audio compression to reduce file sizes

Email file attachments compressed as CAB files for smallest possible size

BMP image sequence & WAV audio export

Interactive talking web based characters
Create talking web based characters controllable with JavaScript or VB script to give visitors to your web pages an interactive experience

Auto-installable ActiveX web component
Web component interactivity controllable using JavaScript or Visual Basic
Script level access to property, method and event controls
Export in Windows & RealMedia streaming media formats for publishing on your website
Sample scripts to assist developers in learning how to control a talking image

Powerpoint and application program embed
CrazyTalk Active component shows the highest display quality, facilitate real-time interaction, also served as a standard control for document embed, application program designer can use the SDK to do make real-time interactive control over CrazyPal.

Microsoft Powerpoint Tools Embed - eg. MS Presentation with CrazyTalk component, save memory, better interaction, package wrapping

Shockwave Embed
SDK for Application Design- what programmers can do about CrazyTalk component

Mobile friendly output - 3GP/MPEG4
The output of CrazyTalk can be send as video message to MMS/3G handset, or interact with CrazyPal on your mobile phone

3G Mobile Video Compatible Output - 3GPP and MPEG4
From best video quality to smallest size, flexible parameter Adjustments - Quality, Size, Bit Rate

Share the talking head with iClone - Reallusion's 3D character animation tool
Now the iClone 3D characters not only dance, they can talk.

iClone users can Import talking head, audio script designed by CT40, save time fitting the face, and add realistic talking faces to iClone.
Pass the face photo and fitting information to iClone through RL- JPEG, JPEG file containing the face fitting information in meta tag
Load CTS (the CrazyTalk Talking Script) from iClone to generate animated 3D talking character

Send talking/animated electronic greeting cards
Send a personalized electronic greetings card complete with your own talking character, choice of card template, text message, background music and graphic effects

Categorized card templates
Add your own talking character and talking message

Include a text message
Add background music
Add JavaScript graphical effects
Send all images, sound, animation is a neatly packaged email attachment

Send talking messages

Send a personalized talking messages complete with your own talking character with a choice of messenger frames

Create messages with your own talking character and talking message
Send as Html email, or compressed attachment
Exe standalone player includes swappable frames to match your style
 

           Size : 33.5 MB
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