Originally Posted by B.D.Thomas
Originally Posted by WaoBand
This is just a really excellent song all around. 100% on all fronts, How did you do the video? It looks very like a 3D modelling animation - the kind of images I create, but animated - though even if I had enough room on laptop, which is only used for 3D modelling, to be able to do animations it would take me at least a month to lip-sync a vocalist! Amazing job.
Thank you for your nice words.
Lip-syncing videos is not as difficult as it used to be. Until recently, I created them all with a software called iClone8 .
The result looks like this video.
The problem is that it's a lot of work, not because of the lip sync, but because of all the other movements (e.g. breathing) you do while you're singing.
If you want to do it right, it's a lot more work than the song itself.
And I'm first and foremost a (kinda) musician, not a director.
Then I came across Hedra , and even if the beta version is a bit rough at the edges, it's a lot less work to create something interesting.
No idea what the prices will be when the beta ends, or if they'll even survive.
But it looks promising.

It's really impressive what these new AI progams can do - I checked out Hedra and other new ones and I'm sure they're here to stay, or until something even better comes along. Re your video, I could do the same with a Daz Studio animation and also have the singer change expressions to go along with the lyrics, but besides not having the disc space on either LT or PC I'll never get around to doing anything like it as it would just way, way too long. I now think my saying it would take at least a month was an underestimate!

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