"talking head" animation object

[ajp]

I am looking for an animated object that can be used to look like the "talking heads" on TV, a newscaster or something like that from the waist up with moving lips.

[Mantis]

You probably won't be able to find such animations to suit your needs on the Internet just by searching. You should find a 2D or 3D artist to help you with this. Even if you do find any animations, I doubt they'll be royalty-free.

[Dines]

You sometimes get these things as Flash animations in Websites. Do you mean those? (example: http://www.sitepal.com )

If so, they are available as Flash Objects, so you can buy the character you want and import it using the ActiveX Object.


If you can find a way to read pitch and volume from a playing soundfile, you can design your own system to look like it's talking.

Just create a separate 'mouth' object and make it resize.

PITCH is low = X-Size of mouth is small
PITCH is high = X-Size of mouth is wide
VOLUME is low = Y-Size of mouth is small
VOLUME is high = Y-Size of mouth is high

Depending on how low, or how high these values are, you can make the mouth expand more or less.

[Mantis]

I must say, I'd have never figured that out.

[ajp]

Thanks a lot for the link and your ideas. Very helpful.