Why reality is far more depressing than a war of all against all. https://www.patreon.com/arthurarcturus ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s663yBbzVWg

Quick test of (mostly) manual lip sync and character facial animation using FaceFX. As the stock character is a black dude I used melodyne to shift down my voice and add lower formant frequencies. This is the result of researching and trying tons of different facial mocap solutions, including faceshift, faceware, f-clone, iphone x, facerig, iclone etc. The shittiest indie license for faceware costs 8000$ and the painstaking work required to clean up data doesn't approach one tenth of the quality achieved in half an hour with FaceFX. My conclusion is that motion capture should not be used for lip sync. There is no substitute to manual editing. More info: FaceFX produces some result by dragging and dropping an audio file. However to go from shitty 90s character talking to something viable as shown takes about half an hour for this length sequence. I think it's doable. With more work and a good enough base model one can get hollywood quality out of this thing. Costs 900$ which I think they totally deserve. Phoneme placement is spot on unlike papagayo crap. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqvtLTJd3Gk