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Bricks in Motion
We are a friendly filmmaking community devoted to the art of stop-motion animation using LEGO® and similar construction toys. Here, you can share your work, join our community of other brickfilmers, and participate in periodic animation contests!
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You can use a 3D program (like Blender) to make shape keys for all sorts of mouth shapes, and then map them onto cylinders. Then, just animate them saying whatever the characters are saying, and overlay it on your video.
I heard Glueface is a pretty good way to do it. My only problem with it is that you have to scratch out the original mouths on the minifigure.
You can use a 3D program (like Blender) to make shape keys for all sorts of mouth shapes, and then map them onto cylinders. Then, just animate them saying whatever the characters are saying, and overlay it on your video.
Do you happen to know a tutorial on that?
I can't install GlueFace and that's ******* annoying!
I did a simple test with creating a couple of layer masks in Photoshop Elements and imported into Hitfilm and manually adjusted. Gave me a nice effect which I'll continue to play with and perfect.
I get pictures of cut out mouths, greenscreen them in and over lay them on the video (no scratching out faces), works well...Yet I tend to rush animation cos I am like 'hmmm, if I do less pictures, that means less mouth animations I will have to overlay! 
' so I don't do mouth animations.
I did a simple test with creating a couple of layer masks in Photoshop Elements and imported into [bold]Hitfilm[/bold] and manually adjusted. Gave me a nice effect which I'll continue to play with and perfect.
YES! someone uses Hitfilm!!!! (i have Ultimate) I did the same but put it in to Premiere and adjusted the size to not only fit but reshape for words.(I only use one layer.)
Last edited by Cooked Cat (November 12, 2011 (03:49am))
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