Comments on: Hiding and Seeking in Second Life, Cyborg Style

By: Bletaverse

Bletaverse — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:03:52 +0000

Too bad, i cannot see it here in germany, youtube took it out.

By: Gary Hazlitt

Gary Hazlitt — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:23:42 +0000

Thanks very much VWW…I am glad you liked the lip synch element and I suppose it still is one of the key things missing from second life at the moment – although there is finally some automatic ‘mouth opening’ to inbuilt voice – you still have to post-process the face to get it looking more realistic. Cheers

By: Virtual world watcher

Virtual world watcher — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:13:13 +0000

A very nice machinima video, thanks for posting that. I did found the lip movement very well done. One of the best machinima videos I have seen so far.

By: Gary Hazlitt

Gary Hazlitt — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:24:58 +0000

Hi Laurel. Thanks for the comment Yea about 6 hours in total mainly cause it took a while (40 mins) rendering the Cyborg head against the moving backgrounds. Most of the machinima’s on my YouTube channel are done in around 5 hours…usually 1 pre-prod, 2 filming, 2 hours conversion/editing. Machinima as a process and tools like auto lip sync to audio track make these ‘sketches’ so much more time efficient. I now conceive ideas with the production work flow in mind – hence many are done to existing lyrical music tracks. Doing scripted voice overs would add another 5 hours or so depending on length. I hear on the grapevine that the quality of CT5 will be inside Second Life before the end of the year, so your voice into SL will trigger the lips of the avatar in a similar way! Will make the experience even more immersive and wonderful.

By: Laurel Papworth

Laurel Papworth — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:40:12 +0000

Is that 5 hours +1 hour editing or 5 hours + more?
The lip synch is wierd in a wonderful way. I haven’t seen lipsynch before. It opens up a whole new world of possibilities. Great work!