Back at it again! With a vengence!
So, I have has a hiatus. I got bit by the MSI CPU cooler recall. I got a replacement, thanks MSI for being so professional there, but lost heart having to pull the MontaPC apart to put the new cooler in. Took months for me to get over myself.
Then I had lost all inspiration.
Until / @jameslee
Loved his style, so will try borrowing some as a means to flatter.
So, a few things.
My preamble is now changed. Hope you like it, inspired by #JamesLee.
The home made lava outro of course.
But, in there some where is my first (draft) Blender add-on. I was looking to do lip-sync, and will with meshes over time, but for some of my video work I wanted really to use 2D images wrapped to planes or meshes, just as a style thing (and being essentially lazy).
So, since the Rhubarb Lip Sync add-on works so well, and generates a json file, I thought I would borrow the json output to build a collection of images (mitt transparent backgrounds) to then show/hide using the animation timeline. So easy really.
The RLPS add-on is at:
https://blendermarket.com/products/rh...
The add-on I am working on is at:
https://github.com/OrganicMonkeyMotio...
Note this was a first pass at the animation, so it still needs tuning.
Credits:
Shout out to real animators: • The Visual Effects Crisis
Thanks Blender Foundation for Blender. Thanks to people contributing to Mixamo. Thanks sasnad3 for low poly monkey.
Video editing by OpenShot
Video captured by OBS
Sound editing by Audacity
Doodly for intro and trailers to other episodes.
fakeyou.com for, you know, the rapper
https://quicksounds.com/
for monkey sound effects (monkey jabbering translation in CC)
http://www.zapsplat.com for other noise effects.
Licenced visual branding by:
shutterstock, placeit and RenderForest