Most people know that movie clips take up a large amount of hard drive space and that streaming media only works well over a high-speed internet connection. Even so, we all want to produce attractive websites. If text and still images are not enough for you, here is a potential solution.
The principle behind Crazy Talk is quite simple. First, you import or capture a photo - the program has TWAIN drivers, so it supports most digital cameras and scanners; alternatively, you can use a previously stored bitmap or JPEG image. You then use Crazy Talk Fitting Editor to crop the photo and position it onto a wireframe model, so that the software knows where the various parts of the face in the photo are.
As a test, you can hit the various expression buttons to see the face smile, look angry or blink. If you have fitted the wireframe carefully, the correct parts of the image move, but the motion is not that realistic: as one part of the animated face moves, all the other parts also move very slightly - it looks rather odd.
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