Avatar facial animation.... [suggestions needed]
 

Hi All,

Could I get a suggestion? What is the best way to do facial animation with speech in vizard?

[A] Should I create morph targets for every phonemes? A, I, U, E, O shapes, etc?, and later on use vizard to morph it based on .wav file?

i.e. How are you today?
becomes; A morph -> E morph -> OO morph -> U morph quickly into -> E morph?

[B] any other alternatives?

You will definitely need to create a morph for each basic phoneme. However, Vizard doesn't currently have any way to parse a wav file and generate the phoneme sequence for you. I believe there are some libraries out there that can compute this, otherwise you will have to manually create the phoneme sequence yourself. You can then manually animate the morphs within a timer or use a sequence of vizact.morph actions.