Cartoon Mouths Automagically!

Animate cartoon mouths without manual syllable by syllable work. By harnessing the power of AviSynth, your mouth will be chosen by the amplitude of your sound wave. This is a much easier and automated way to keep it simple and save time.

But beyond cartoons, you can put words in the mouths of public figures, like when Conan O'Brien interviews celebrities "live via satellite." Join the fun and be sure to post your video responses.

Stuff mentioned in this guide:

AviSynth:
http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Main_Page

My blog entry:
http://nerdwithnolife.blogspot.com/2009/01/animating-cartoon-mouths-with-avis...

Instructions on creating a JibJab-like mouth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrUrAcBdrpw

VirtualDub:
http://www.virtualdub.org/

GIMP:
http://www.gimp.org/

Audacity:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity

AVS2AVI:
http://www.divx-digest.com/software/avs2avi.html

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• jib jab
• style
• cartoon mouth
• automatic animation

[lumpy42069]

thank you for wasting my life even more...

[DerekForPresident]

That's basically the mission statement of my channel.

[DerekForPresident]

Did you record mouthaudio.wav and put it in the same folder as the AVS? If so, how did you record it?

[expressionmany]

i put the mouthaudio.wav in the same folder as the mouthmover.avs and the 5 .pngs. I recorded the audio with audacity exporting it as a wav. Theres probably a small mistake somewhere...

[DerekForPresident]

" AVIFileSource: couldn't open file "mouthaudio.wav" "

You should be using WAVSource, not AVISource. Can you post your script?

[DerekForPresident]

expressionmany - this still bothers me. There must be a syntax error. Try this: in notepad, paste:

dir . > "send to derek.txt"

type "mouthmover.avs" >> "send to derek.txt"

^save that as "derek.bat" - in quotes IN WHATEVER FOLDER ALL THOSE FILES ARE IN. Click on it; it will create "send to derek.txt" - then send it to Derek so I can analyze it.

[Maxaker67]

cool

[Sirdavids1]

u bro yes uuu can have me

[AngrySlop]

gimp please!!!

[porkroach]

thats gay i miss when conan used to do that shit live via sattlelite

[SketchyBob]

OMG. THATS WHAT I THOUGHT TOO!

[SketchyBob]

you sounddd canadiann

[patelmanrulez]

yo cant you do this with sony vegas pro as well? if so i'd rather use that

[Gen0bee]

What is up, Toby Maguire!

;P