CrazyTalk 5 - Face Puppet Animation Software

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Product Information

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Photo Fitting
 Auto Lip-sync
 Face Profile Styles
 Motion Clips 
 Real-time Puppetry
 Dual-layered SFX
 Comic Text Bubble
 Flash Output
 HD Output

Quick Links

• In summary
• Applications
• Revolutionary Face Puppetry
• What's New in CrazyTalk 5
• Full Feature Matrix
• System Requirements
• FAQ
• Reviews and Awards
• Showcase

In summary

- Magically Turn Photos into Talking Movies.
- Make Any Photo Talk with Your Own Voice or Audio.
- Play and Create with Easy Puppeteering.

Fitting Wizard for Photo Animation

• Create 3D talking characters from photos, images or illustrations.
• Custom photo background and SFX with mask editors.
• Apply emotive facial expressions during talking animation.

Lip-sync for Talking Characters

• Animate characters with voice, recorded audio, or text.
• Automatic lip-sync animation from audio and typed text.
• Instant expressions and animated SFX from library.

Real-time Puppetry for Facial Animation

• Use mouse or handheld devices to puppet your character.
• Puppet character's behavior in real-time as playing the audio.
• Facial control panel for precise puppet performance

Applications

Moviemaking
Bring characters to life with expressive performances in movies.

Web video
Quickly create an character or avatar anchor for podcasts and video blogs.

Virtual Avatars
Virtual avatars can come to life in seconds allowing you to animate facial animation.

Live Performance
Real-time puppeteering performance engages audiences of all ages.

Cartoons
Any artwork can become a talking animated character for video comics.

Photo Comedy
Play with photo and make movies of yourself, friends and family.

Revolutionary Face Puppetry

	Live Capture - Real-time Puppetry Animation Use a mouse or handheld device to puppet character animation in real-time. Select character expressions or facial features and live puppet their behavior as you playback the recorded audio. MORE INFO >>
	Multiple Face Profile Styles for Non-human Characters 8 Face Profile Styles for non-human for unique facial performance to realistically animate animal, cartoon and machine faces. Original human profile mesh refinement. MORE INFO >>
	Motion Clip for Emotion Library Management Drag-and-drop Motion Clips to Timeline to add instant expressions for fully featured emotions. Record real-time facial puppeteering and save it in layers as Motion Clips storing all the data for every facial feature animated during the live puppet session. MORE INFO >>
	Comic Effect with SFX Swap & Text Bubble Dual-layered Special Effects allows you to swap SFX from foreground to background with SFX-Swap. Text Bubble to add comic messages. MORE INFO >>

What's New

Photo from CrazyTalk 5 PRO (CrazyTalk 5 Standard does not have time-line editing)

Full Feature Matrix

General CrazyTalk 4 Media CrazyTalk5 CrazyTalk5 PRO Intuitive graphical user interface Embedded Image editing tools for photo enhancement Preview window to immediately see/hear file content CrazyTalk File Manager to organize your talking image and talking message collection Enhanced character and script content One click editing of existing CrazyTalk content Preference settings Enhanced facial mesh for variety of face types to better fit different character facial contour Convert photos into live talking 3D heads CrazyTalk 4 Media CrazyTalk5 CrazyTalk5 PRO Create talking images from your own photo collection Import any .jpg or .bmp format image files Import any .png, .tga, or 32-bit .bmp format images files for alpha channel to enhance background mask editing Import images from TWAIN devices Bond your photos with CrazyTalk's proprietary morphing facial wireframe 9 Face Profile Styles for non-human characters Auto, basic, and advanced face fitting modes Photo crop and rotate tools Image color enhancement tool - smart color, brightness, contrast, hue and saturation Change wireframe color for easy visibility Group selection allowing simultaneous movement of multiple points Mouth close option to snap top and bottom lips together 3D head and shoulder animation for realistic effect Zoom function to aid precise fitting Feature enhancement panel to match virtual eye color with original synthetic eyes. Eye library, teeth library, adjustment of feature size, color and location. Mouth texture color options to provide a realistic looking mouth Apply custom image for the eyes and teeth texture to perfectly match character personality Background removal and replacement, with full featured masking tool Save facial fitting data as Face JPEG, which contains fitting information in the JPEG file for cross program or platform compatibility Create and save unlimited talking characters Apply default standby motions for realistic animation Create talking characters with text and voice audio CrazyTalk 4 Media CrazyTalk5 CrazyTalk5 PRO Create your own talking message by recording your own voice Import wave files or use the built-in audio record function Natural voice & Text-to-Speech voice modes SAPI 4 & 5 Text-to-Speech (TTS) Automatic phoneme analysis Set volume, pitch, and speed voice attributes in Text-to-Speech (TTS) Unlimited expressions with 100 levels of strength Apply different expressions to different portions of messages Preview a portion or entire message Emotive presets for mood based animation Special effects for image overlays and character disguises Text bubble SFX with comic captions and titling effects SFX are allowed to be swapped between foreground and background Master animation track sequence for perfect lip-sync and natural emotion Motion Clips to add instant expressions to the Timeline including full face, eye, head, and SFX track performance Record real-time facial puppeteering and save it in layers as Motion Clips storing all the data for every facial feature animated during the live puppet session. Precision editing tools for fine-tuning talking animation CrazyTalk 4 Media CrazyTalk5 CrazyTalk5 PRO Total linear animation track control featuring tools for professional animation output Custom facial expression editing tools featuring slider controls over each facial muscle Expression, special effects, head, shoulder and viseme (mouth shape) tracks, expressiveness strength control Quick editing, users can group select, copy and paste, shift animation key location, strength directly from the timeline Special effects overlay controls and editing tools Advanced fine- tuning: double click animation tracks on the Timeline editor to evoke track feature menu boxes and adjust the parameters Import audio file for background music Timeline editor is fully compatible for editing CTS files importable as talking character speech and facial animation for Reallusion iClone *Note: CrazyTalk 5 will be compatible with future release of iClone 3.0 * Real-time Face Puppet Animation CrazyTalk 4 Media CrazyTalk5 CrazyTalk5 PRO User mouse or handheld device to puppet character animation in real-time while playing back the recorded audio 5 default puppet profiles, including Wicked, Goofy, Youthful, Attractive and Grumpy, define instant personality performance for puppeteering 6 emotion styles to display the character's attitudes, including general, smiley, angry, sad, happy, scared Solo feature control panel for precise puppet performance Head Orientation and tilting Camera system to zoom character with free head zoom and rotation Multi-media Output CrazyTalk 4 Media CrazyTalk5 CrazyTalk5 PRO Export Targa (TGA) alpha channel for perfect video composition Full screen digital video output NTSC and PAL Large Size for 720p HD and 1080p HD size output Custom video size output Custom web media output size Mobile 3GP output for mobile handsets Export in Streaming Video format Windows Media and Real Media (WMV and RM) for easy download web content. Export in RealMedia streaming format (.RM) for publishing on your website Export .BMP sequence as raw content for import into 3rd party animation tools Export .WAV file Flash FLV video with custom standby motion included Custom YouTube 320*240 video size to share and upload through YouTube

System Requirements

Hardware:

• Pentium III 800 MHz (Pentium IV or higher recommended)
• 256 MB RAM (512 MB or higher recommended)
• 512 MB disk space (1 GB or higher recommended)
• Duplex Sound Card/VGA Card/Keyboard/Mouse/Microphone/Speaker

Operating System

• Windows XP SP2/Vista

Browsers

• Browsers: Internet Explorer 6 or above
  (software required online activation.)

FAQ

See Reallusion website for FAQ on CrazyTalk 5

Reviews and Rewards

See Reallusion website for CrazyTalk 5 Reviews and Awards

Showcase

See Reallusion website for Showcase of CrazyTalk 5

Lako Product code:  REA001-2

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