Forum - Your Videos - Animated karaoke music video! - Messages http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5713-animated-karaoke-music-video.aspx Forum - Your Videos - Animated karaoke music video! - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Fri, 27 May 2016 20:53:55 GMT Fri, 27 May 2016 20:53:55 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5713-animated-karaoke-music-video.aspx Message from theotherguy
Using the provided character templates I generate my clothing and faces with a combination of CorelDraw and Photoshop. A drawing program like CorelDraw or Illustrator makes quick work of clothes, once you make shapes that correspond with the shapes in the template you can use the draw, fill, and shape tools to make any number of new clothes, shoes, etc. Once you're happy with them, export the clothes as PNG files (I do these individually, not as a whole template) Then, import them into Photoshop where you have a template open, sync them up and when you're ready export the whole thing as a PNG file for use in MUvizu.


Getting Muvizu characters to look like people involves getting a good photo, importing into Photoshop, cutting out just the face and making it semi transparent to line up the eyes and mouth with the template, the mouth is critical if you want character to speak. You might have to stretch or squish the photo to make it work, it HAS to follow the template. I then use layers of colour masks to make things look nice and smooth. Then, export the file as a PNG and try it in Muvizu, you might have to tweak it a few times, different Muvizu characters have their own rules.]]> Fri, 27 May 2016 20:53:55 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5713-animated-karaoke-music-video.aspx Message from Rocque PatMarrNC wrote:
Rocque wrote:
I saw some techniques that I am hoping to learn in the future such as original characters and clothes.


this tutorial tells how to create custom outfits.... custom faces are basically the same procedure, except you copy a face photo over the face portion of the UV map

https://www.muvizu.com/Video/17223/Tutorial-11-Characters-Painting-custom-skins


Once again Mr. Pat to the rescue. Thanks so much for sharing.]]> Fri, 27 May 2016 05:17:30 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5713-animated-karaoke-music-video.aspx Message from PatMarrNC Rocque wrote:
I saw some techniques that I am hoping to learn in the future such as original characters and clothes.


this tutorial tells how to create custom outfits.... custom faces are basically the same procedure, except you copy a face photo over the face portion of the UV map

https://www.muvizu.com/Video/17223/Tutorial-11-Characters-Painting-custom-skins]]> Fri, 27 May 2016 02:47:19 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5713-animated-karaoke-music-video.aspx Message from Rocque
The subtitles were great. How and what did you use to add those? Let us know if you update it.]]> Fri, 27 May 2016 02:06:28 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5713-animated-karaoke-music-video.aspx Message from theotherguy
I've been struggling with other technical difficulties (couldn't open AVI files for awhile) I'm waiting to hear from the band to see if they want to go ahead with this version, before I get all-ambitious and throw in a couple of extra angles! ]]> Thu, 26 May 2016 23:03:26 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5713-animated-karaoke-music-video.aspx Message from ziggy72 ]]> Thu, 26 May 2016 22:12:53 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5713-animated-karaoke-music-video.aspx Message from PatMarrNC
First of all , I like the song, and I like your use of photo and video backgrounds. How did you create the moving weeds in the foreground?

I take it that the skins for your characters were made from photos of the actual band members? They look very good!

Anyway, great job! Highly original from start to finish!]]> Thu, 26 May 2016 19:32:01 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5713-animated-karaoke-music-video.aspx Message from theotherguy
The song is about Toronto's notorious transit system (TTC) performed by Freakuency Z.
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