The Teachers' Animation Toolkit

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WORKSHEET: USING CRAZY TALK
Teachers’ note:
Crazy Talk is a useful add-on tool for machinima fi lmmakers. Crazy 
Talk lets you bring still images of human or animal faces to life by 
automatically synchronizing lip movements to spoken dialogue or 
sung vocals. It will even animate facial expressions.
Students can create a music video of their own in under 10 minutes. 
Using the audio from a favourite song and Crazy Talk, anyone can 
become a music video director instantly. It can also be used to give 
machinima-based avatars the power of lip-synched speech.
The following is a product summary provided by the company:
Main features:
1. Turn images into talking videos:
Create 3D talking characters from any photo or image.
Easy tools to adjust eyes, lips, mouth and teeth.
Add automatic facial expressions and face morph 
effects
.
2. Makes images talk with voices and text:
Automatic 
lip-sync
animation performance from any 
audio
or 
typed text
.
Apply any instant animated 
emotions
and 
gestures
.
Add animated 
SFX
for fun character disguises.
3.
Turn human and non-human images into talking avatars:
Import images for custom teeth and eyes from teeth and 
eyes library.
Nine customizable character styles to match a variety of 
characters, from human to non-human such as cartoon, 
animal, machine and more.
4. Edit the facial expression:
Use a mouse or a handheld device to puppet character 
animation in real-time.

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The Teachers’ Animation Toolkit
Use puppet profi les for instant facial expression presets.
Select attitudes matching various puppet personalities.