Charles Bukowski poem - BlueBird

what a master piece...

Got a question. How did you create the man? All in iclone? I want to create a guy but make his face look like Casey Kasem and have him animated. But I'd like to use him close up (head/shoulders) too. I wonder if you can get good enough details in iclone or if I'd need to just use CT6 for the close up stuff. ?

@TruthSurge The actor was fully created in iClone4. I used a base head and changed the face shape. One strong point with iClone is that with a good photo to begin with, you can get good characters. So if you have a good forward facing and well lit image of Kasem, you'd be headed in the right direction. Thanks!

You know, I think I'm going to sculpt the head in zbrush using front/side pics of Kasem as a guide then exaggerate it to cartoonize it some then render it and polish it up in PS then just use CT6 w/green screen background and import into Vegas to merge him with a background. I'll then later figure out how to put THAT head onto a body in iclone for a real 3D effect. I assume I can import a mesh into iclone so I'll prob merge that mesh w/body in zbrush, import to iclone then. ? hahah

thanks for the info!

What's with the flashing neck and weird shadows popping in and out? Is this what I can expect from iclone 4? Doesn't look too good to have weird lights suddenly happening on his neck like that. What about CT6? These are made by the same company so why wouldn't they put the same lip sync functionality in both? I'm confused.

@TruthSurge Turning on self-casting shadow can ease this. Good eye. iClone has lots of CrazyTalks features built-in. The ability to record audio or import an mp3 or wav is there. iClone will then turn it into auto lip-sync. You can also open that voice file or audio in CrazyTalk to have deep level access to exact lip shapes. iClone can do the job alone, but CrazyTalk gives a nice polish.

Great narration

Thx!

Thanks Cathy. I decided to take a bit more time and use CrazyTalk 6 to enhance the mouth shapes. Then, I brought the voiceover back into iClone after I fine-tuned the lip-synch. Using CrazyTalk6 to tidy up your mouth shapes that are auto-generated when you import or record your original audio is a big help.