Sunday, October 23, 2022

It's pumpkin carving time again

 Here are "jack of the lanterns" I and my daughter carved up this year.


 This is my daughter holding up her creation.  That pumpkin looks very scared, doesn't it?  It's as if it's worried about something.  Well.......


...that's because my pumpkin is eating hers.   I've never known pumpkins to be cannibals, but of course science and nature are always full of surprise. 

Anyway, that's the seasonal festivities that we conjured up for this year. Happy Halloween, everyone!

Sunday, October 02, 2022

I experimented with lip sync

 

 Above is some lip sync animation I just did as an experiment.  I took an old dialogue file that I used for this "series of videos" (which was really just one very long video) some time ago.  The main reasons I did this is be because I both wanted to see if I still "have what it takes" but also see what my current technology could help me accomplish.

Doing this lip sync was harder than it should have been.  I did finally manage to import the sound file into the Adobe Flash program ut for some reason I couldn't set it to what's called "stream" for the purpose of going over the dialogue frame by frame so as to insure accuracy.  So, what I had to do was put that dialogue file into iMovie and "stream" the dialogue there.  One shouldn't have to go back and forth between programs to complete a simple task like lip sync, but it's what I had to do.

So, anyway, here's my lip sync such as it is.  What are your thoughts?