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Summary: Learn how to play back Poser software characters that talk with expert 3D animation and rendering tips in this free software tutorial video.
John Carstarphen is an experienced independent filmmaker, screenwriter, animator and teacher. His work as a writer/director has been seen in international film festivals including...read more
"JOHN CARSTARPHEN: Hi. This is John Carstarphen for Expert Village. And that's it, that's really how to use Mimic. Mimic is very, very user-friendly. You can change the phonemes if you don't--if, for instance, by double-clicking on one of the phonemes, if you think that the choice of body parts they've used to create the phoneme is not good, then you can add more definition. You can create your own phonemes, basically, so it's a very flexible program and it's very good for Poser. So once we're finished, we go to "File" and then "Export Pose." And now we're back in Poser and it's just a simple matter of surfing to your Pose file, where you keep your Mimic files, double-clicking on the icon and sending that directly to the figure, and that's what we've done. So let's play back the file. COMPUTER VOICEOVER: Thanks Mimic. Now I can really express myself. Thanks Mimic. Now I can really express myself. Thanks Mimic. Now I can really express myself."
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