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"Mac App Store Best of 2012;" Favourite of Creative Team at "Jimmy Kimmel Live" That Allows Users to Bring Characters to Life with Voice-Driven Tools Makes Public Debut, Jan. 31 - Feb. 2
Northampton, UK, January 29th 2013 - Reallusion, the award-winning leader of 3D and 2D Cinematic tools, today announced that CrazyTalk7, its best-selling facial animation software named "Mac App Store Best of 2012," will be making its public debut at Macworld/iWorld 2013's Appalooza Showcase, January 31 - Feb. 2.
CrazyTalk7 uses powerful Auto-animation technology that's allows any user, no matter if you are an iMovie-maker or a creative user, from any level, to create talking character videos from any digital photograph. Bring any face to life with CrazyTalk7's simple face-fitting guide, and then use your own voice to puppet your actor's performance in real-time.
"We are excited to meet the Mac community," said John Martin, VP Product Marketing, Reallusion. "Although CrazyTalk7 launched late last year, it was such a big hit that it won top honors from both users and Apple insiders. With its public debut at Appalooza, we know that we're going to get some great feedback as well as wow a lot of people with CrazyTalk7's Auto Motion feature, which allows users to animate with the same ease as making a phone call."
Auto-motion technology in CrazyTalk7 is an innovative, time-saving and voice-driven animation tools that help users create high quality animations in just a few minutes. Users can use their own voice energy to control and generate natural character animations. How you speak directly affects your avatar's mood and tempo such as; whispering to replicate a quiet mood with little movement, shouting to get exaggerated results with a close-up camera, facial flaring, or singing to a rhythmic beat. Moreover, you may choose from various performance styles to set a unique personality to your character's base movement. Then choose a Talk mode to make your character speak your audio with lip-syncs, and add emotions with the Auto Motion templates that are driven by the same audio track. Or choose a Listen mode that turns your character into an attentive listener, or a headphone-jamming music lover that responds to the beat, complete with head, eyes and facial expressions.
CrazyTalk7 Features:
- Turning Any Image into a Talking Head: Import your own images or photographs, and follow the simple face fitting process.
- Auto-lip-syncing with a Human Voice: CrazyTalk7's audio lip-syncing engine animates any character's mouth thanks to a built-in phoneme library.
- Auto Motion Technology: This clever new feature analyzes the tones in your voice to automatically generate head and facial movement.
- Custom Facial Puppeteering: Be your own puppet master and control facial expressions, head movements, eyes and mouth tempo with direct mouse puppeteering.
- Rich-Content Library: First time CrazyTalk users can quickly get started with hundreds of helpful assets that inspire, teach and assist.
- Timeline Editing and Refinement: Overlay specific facial expressions from the library and save your edits in the Custom Motion Clip library for future use.
- Output: Export videos or images in different sizes and ratios.
- Free Online Video Tutorials, Manuals and Forum Help: Easily learn CrazyTalk7 with full media support training.
Kudos for CrazyTalk:
"Thank goodness CrazyTalk for Mac has been released. CrazyTalk has been the best tool for facial animation on Jimmy Kimmel Live for years for the simple reason: the script can always change at the last minute. CrazyTalk keeps up!" - Jesse Griffith, Graphics Artist/Animator, Jimmy Kimmel Live!
"Version 7 ups the ante animation-wise and introduces much clever, more realistic facial movements that go far beyond just lip-synching." - Macworld Magazine UK
"CrazyTalk is easy enough for first-time animators to use, and full-featured enough for pros who need to quickly create characters and storylines." - About.com
GET STARTED:
Download CrazyTalk7 from the Apple Apps Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crazytalk7/id551903255?mt=12
CrazyTalk7 is also available for PC. Visit Reallusion's website for more info, free training and demo videos: http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/crazytalk.aspx.
About Reallusion, Inc.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Reallusion is a leading-edge software developer providing cinematic animation tools for PC, Mac and mobile platforms. Reallusion's pioneering storytelling technology excelling at character animation, facial morphing and voice lip-sync allows fast creation of interactive avatars for 3D real-time filmmaking and previsualization for professional post-production. Their powerful yet easy-to-use tools make character animation accessible to both Mac and PC users of all skill levels. Reallusion's development of core technologies and growing base of intellectual property firmly establish the company as power among emerging technology innovators, furthering their graphic and imaging embedded kernels to top-brand device manufacturers worldwide.
Web: http://www.reallusion.com/
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