Re: [mh] Animated face

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Check out the pinball machine "Funhouse": 
http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=966

Maybe you can find an old Rudy head... 
http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=966&picno=21285 
<http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=966&picno=21285>

Mouth and eyes both move!



On 12/21/2009 8:40 AM, storemike wrote:
> If you're going the animatronix route, a good base could be the Boris talking skull.  I use that and the jaw moves in sync with the speech and eyes light up when it talks.  I think a few others on this list are also using Boris.
>
> --- In mis...@ya..., Thomas Harding<thomasharding@...>  wrote:
>    
>> Thanks. I will take a look. But in the last few days I decided to build an animatronic head. I changed my "Rosie" to "Hal" (changed the voice to male and plan to make a male head). The benefit to an animatronic head is it will offload the processing power from the PC. I hope to have a working model in a couple weeks or so.
>>
>>
>> On Dec 18, 2009, at 9:13 PM, David Norwood wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Although it hasn't been updated in almost two years, this project looks
>>> promising:
>>>
>>> http://xface.itc.it/news/index.htm
>>>
>>> I downloaded it for windows and it ran fine, including client server mode.
>>> I haven't figured out how to make her speak English yet.
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Thomas Harding"<thomasharding@...>
>>> To:<misterhouse-users@...>
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:54 PM
>>> Subject: [mh] Animated face
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Just getting back into MH after an absence. I have been using MH for many
>>>> years now (10+), and have always wanted an animated face. Now that
>>>> animation has gotten better and more mainstream, I thought I would see if
>>>> I could find an animated face to go with my MH installation (ours is
>>>> called "Rosie", after the famous robot on The Jetsons. I even have ATT
>>>> natural female voice, but no face).
>>>>
>>>> So far I found this:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.imagineerieing.com/mirror_mirror.html
>>>>
>>>> It does not use sound card input to animate the mouth, but it does use the
>>>> microphone input. So simply placing a mic in front of the speakers makes
>>>> the mouth move when Rosie (MH) speaks. Of course, I would like a face more
>>>> appropriate, but for now, it will work. In the end, I would like to build
>>>> a robot body, and put a 7" monitor in place for the face with software
>>>> running that animates the face when speech is produced.
>>>>
>>>> As far as the PC I am using, I recently got a low power system off ebay
>>>> and it runs MH perfectly, and uses much lower power then my old dual core
>>>> system. XP Pro is the OS, so I need something that will run on windows.
>>>>
>>>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250540444407&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT#ht_1118wt_1166
>>>>
>>>> If anyone knows of a better animated face program (something more
>>>> customizable maybe), please pass the info along.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>