Voice-O-Matic v3
Available for Max
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Need to make your characters talk but don’t want to spend days or weeks doing it?
Voice-O-Matic
(3ds max Edition)
is a powerful, easy-to-use plug-in which automates the lip synchronization process for your animated CG characters directly in Autodesk 3ds max. Simply feed a recorded audio file to
Voice‑O‑Matic
and it will automatically generate timing and lip position data for your characters.
Flexible is the one word which best describes
Voice-O-Matic
. No matter which type of character setup you wish to use : from shapes to complex bones-based rigs, and no matter the language for which you wish to create lip synchronization,
Voice-O-Matic
delivers.
Interested in trimming hours of work off your next talking character production?
Voice-O-Matic
analyses the phonemes within an audio file and automatically creates standard keyframes, allowing animators to quickly tweak results. You will be amazed at how easy it is to use.
Voice-O-Matic
(3ds max Edition)
is
the best way to speed up the lip synchronization process for your CG characters in Autodesk 3ds max!
The Garfield Show animated series entertain audience around the globe since 2008.
Animating The Garfield Show
He’s the worlds most famous nap-taking, lasagna-loving, Monday-hating, dog-tormenting cat. Garfield thinks that cats are the most intelligent species in the world, maybe even the universe, and that everything in it, is there in some way to serve him. Despite his self-serving, and self centered nature, Garfield is really good at heart, and would never want anything to harm Jon and Odie.
The Garfield Show is about Garfield’s day-to-day life, blending the look of CG animation and familiar humor of the orange tabby cat. This animated series has been delighting audiences worldwide since its debut on France 3 network in November 2008. In addition to the dozen countries already watching, Cartoon Network Japan will begin airing the TV series in 2010. According to Garfield cartoonist Jim Davis: "The show has been a delight to work on – the animation sparkles, and the stories are fun.”
Ellipsanime/Dargaud Media, a Paris-based animation and publishing company started production in 2008 to coincide with the strip's 30th anniversary, the show features the corpulent kitty and the world he lives in, including his owner, Jon Arbuckle, the happy-go-lucky pup Odie, the cloying “cutest kitten in the world,” Nermal, and Garfield’s permanent houseguest, Squeak the mouse.
The show is fully animated and rendered in Autodesk Softimage 64-bit, and to speed up the facial animation process while maintaining high-end result, the production team opted to implement automatic lipsynching with the help of Di-O-Matic solutions.
Cyrille Paulhiac, R&D reveals: "Voice-O-Matic brings to Ellipsanime/Dargaud-Media a fast and effective solution for all our characters lips sync. This flexible and effective technical solution, combined with an exemplary customer service, allows us to keep the pace of our series. Moreover, vomBatch is an amazing way to integrate this solution in a production pipeline."
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Voice-O-Matic automates lip sync animations with any 3D character rig in any language and help reduce production time drastically as it creates a first animation pass that can easily be tweaked. Voice-O-Matic from Di-O-Matic is available as plug-in for Autodesk 3ds max, Autodesk Maya as well as Autodesk Softimage. More than 150 shots per episode of The Garfield Show are processed automatically with Voice-O-Matic and vomBatch, allowing the character animators to focus their energies on the character performance and emotions. |
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Once again, Di-O-Matic technologies helped artists bring unique CG characters to life, this time as a key component of the facial animation pipeline of The Garfield Show animated series produced in France at Ellipsanime/Dargaud Media, adding Garfield and its friends to the list of famous CG characters like Spiderman, Lara Croft or Mickey Mouse that rely on Di-O-Matic technologies to come to life and entertain audience worldwide. |
Watch teasers of the animated series on the Garfield Show youtube channel or watch exclusive behind the scene videos to learn more on how the creation of the animated series.
Try Voice-O-Matic and speed up your production pipeline like Ellipsanime/Dargaud Media.
Key new features to v3 include:
* Added compatibility with 3ds max 2010
* 64-bit support
* Improved lip-sync quality
* Enhanced and updated user interface
With Voice-O-Matic, you get everything you need to do high-end Lip-Sync animation in 3ds max, this includes :
- a Plugin Wizard to guides you through the complete LipSync process in 5 easy steps !
- Complete phonetic support, use up to 40 different phonemes
- .lwv file support, use LISET from Microsoft to process the audio recognition
- Audible phoneme audio cues, hear the phonemes pronunciation
- Support most languages, including English, French, Spanish, Japanese and others
- Text input, for accurate syllabic recognition (only in English)
- Intelligent smoothing, to get better lip synchronization results
- Weight-able Visemes Intensity, easily set emphasis on any given Visemes
- Standard keys creation on Bezier controllers, so animations can be modified easily
- Custom tangents type, change the keyframe tangents type
- Full support of animation plugins like Morpher, Morph-O-Matic or Facial Studio
- MAXScript support
- Float Licensing, so you can share license(s) across your network.
- Batch Processing, VOMBatch exclusively available to VIP members
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