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December 30, 2016
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Character Rigging and Lip sync test video

  • December 30, 2016
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This is one of many new characters I am currently working on. Here is a video I made today to test out the rigging lip sync and blinks

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    scotte57842618
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    March 26, 2017

    This is a 3D character Ant completed just last week

    scotte57842618
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    March 6, 2017

    This is another screen test for a character we were working on last week for www.earth-sanctuary.com.au We also created a group of Rangers too but I havent gotten around yet to putting together a sample of those characters

      scotte57842618
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      March 8, 2017

      Here we are testing out more triggers for our Twitch customer. The props have two rounds of triggers. The first button makes the prop appear and then the second button activates them, so below we see the wooden and stun gun appear, and then when the second trigger button is pressed, they begin to work

      oksamurai
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      oksamuraiCommunity Manager
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      March 8, 2017

      Nice, have seen this guy posting on Twitter a lot as well, seems really happy with your work. I also love how all the streamers still want to have chairs in their cartoons.

        scotte57842618
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        February 24, 2017

        Here is a video showing some new expressions we've been adding to a Twitch gamers cartoon digital puppet

        We've been asked to make quite a lot of custom puppets recently but very soon we will be opening a store where we will be selling parts and props for people to use on their own puppets, such as blink cycle layers, lip syncs, hands, facial elements, effects, props like the game controller animation and so go. Whereas our custom built puppets may be more than some want to pay for, our store will sell these parts for as low as £5, and I dont mean, 'some' will be £5, but then you find most are a lot more, no, we are aiming to make all the individual elements really cheap. The store isn't live just yet, we have a page ready Character Animator Digital Puppet & Asset Store - Affordable animation creation  but it will be about a month until it is stocked up. We have elements ready and we will be making more, adding to the store continuously. If there are any props, elements or animations you would like to see added, please do let us know.

        oksamurai
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        oksamuraiCommunity Manager
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        February 24, 2017

        Excellent! Given the number of requests we see for stock puppets, that store is going to be a great resource.

        scotte57842618
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        February 13, 2017

        Because you are right, virtual avatars are going to take off big time I think

        oksamurai
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        oksamuraiCommunity Manager
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        February 13, 2017

        We've talked about that in the past, yes - a simpler front end in some form or another. We will be having something in the next release that we hope will make this process a little easier for people within the app, but I don't think it's far fetched to imagine more applications to interact with puppets in the future.

          scotte57842618
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          February 13, 2017

          Im visiting a theatre next week that want to discuss use of a puppet on stage, and its customers like him, and most non designer youtubers, who would appreciate a parred down version to use. No one I have spoken to have grumbled about the price, its more that it can overwhelm them if they arent use to designer software. Of course we can talk them through it quick enough but a nice user friendly version for non designers would be very good indeed.

          scotte57842618
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          February 13, 2017

          Yep, I'm making another one Wednesday, Ant just finished another today. I'm doodling a concept for a big youtuber right now. What would be good if Character Animator had a front end app, so customers who just want to use the puppets have access to the program, just to control the puppet, as they wont want to use the rigging side of things. A version where they literally upload the puppet and its ready to go.

            scotte57842618
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            February 13, 2017

            We've been working on lots of new characters lately, many of them for customers. Here is one I completed this evening for a Twitch gamer from the US.

            oksamurai
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            oksamuraiCommunity Manager
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            February 13, 2017

            Nice! Super fluid animations as usual. I've seen several Twitch streamers start to use CH now - I suspect you'll be seeing more requests keep coming in!

            scotte57842618
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            January 13, 2017

            Seems like the ideal use for digital puppets

            scotte57842618
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            January 6, 2017

            Ant and I will be doing a LIVE test today on Facebook at 4.30 (UK time, I think thats 11.30am on US East coast, 8.30am US West coast, and 11.30 pm AUS Perth, and around 5.30 mainland Europe) You can view the test if you follow our LOOK 3D page at https://www.facebook.com/look3dstudio

            scotte57842618
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            January 8, 2017

            Here is screen record of the Facebook live test. The audio is pretty pants because our main mic literally broke on the day, as luck would have it (its been on a stand for over a year, I take it down to reposition and bang, its dead) so we ended up with the built in webcam mic which aint great and isn't a shotgun mic, so it picks up a lot of noise from nearby cpu. Anyway, the main thing was to test if we could broadcast to Facebook live, and yes we can.

            Digital Puppets Facebook live test - YouTube

            scotte57842618
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            January 13, 2017

            Here's a character Ants been working on. We want to create a few characters to make into Youtube channels. We've already made Wizzy and Mr Chippy. This is Ants BOOKIE and I still have my cartoon learning character I want to make, How?e. We have a lot planned, though we've been held up a little as we've been working on our www.digitalpuppets.co.uk page and facebook page www.facebook.com/digitalpuppetstudio

            scotte57842618
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            January 5, 2017

            Setting up a page for the service http://digitalpuppets.co.uk/

            Digital Puppets - Look Creative Studios bringing charcters to life!

            Still adding new videos to it. Later this evening we are working on a demo video to showcase how easy it is to use, for consumers, not animators. Has Adobe ever thought about creating a front end package, so if we wanted to sell puppets to customers, they can just use a simpler program with the motion capture and not all the backend programming?

            oksamurai
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            oksamuraiCommunity Manager
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            January 6, 2017

            Yes. That's definitely a realistic possibility down the road.

            Awesome about FB Live and Skype. You'll have to teach me how to do it on Skype, haven't seen that before...

            antonye44650623
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            January 6, 2017

            Hi I'm Scotts brother Ant and been working with him on the designs, love Character Animator think its has massive potential.

            We managed to get skype working using OBS and its pretty simple to set up, just display capture a portion of one screen for the CA character then overlay that onto a window capture of Skype. We then are able to use OBS to live stream direct to facebook and show the character and person on skype live that can then interact with any facebook comments :)  

            scotte57842618
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            January 5, 2017

            Thanks We've also made big headway using OBS. My brother has it working on Facebook live perfectly now too and in Skype. Earlier we even managed to overlay the puppet from his office across down, to my video feed, using Skype. OBS and FB live. My internet is too slow, so the lag ruined it, but anyone with half decent web network, it would work perfectly

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