By william vaughan (Proton) (207.235.86.2) on Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 05:47 pm:

http://www.lightwave3d.com/contests/jan-03/index.html

By Lernie D Ang (Faulknermano) (202.57.94.37) on Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 09:54 pm:

okay.. let me be the first one to state: one of the best ideas i've seen thus far. ;)

but two months to do lipsynch?

By william vaughan (Proton) (207.235.86.2) on Thursday, January 09, 2003 - 09:58 am:

but two months to do lipsynch?

Do you feel that's not enuff time...or too much...

remember that you only have to use a portion of the sound file....but you are more the welcome to animate the whole thing....

By Jack Daniel (Jdaniel) (67.9.28.136) on Thursday, January 09, 2003 - 01:11 pm:

That's plenty of time.
What if you use Magpie, export to LW and tweak?

By william vaughan (Proton) (207.235.86.2) on Thursday, January 09, 2003 - 01:31 pm:

As long as you send in the source files it doesn't matter...

By Scott Lange (Castius) (208.58.117.41) on Thursday, January 09, 2003 - 05:23 pm:

That sounds a bit borderline to me. This is a bit extream but here is an example: Animate a character in max and loaded the motion capture to the model for a lw charater animation contest. The differnce is magpie is a lw plugin. Just wanted to throughing that out there.

By Lernie D Ang (Faulknermano) (202.57.90.135) on Friday, January 10, 2003 - 12:29 am:

"Do you feel that's not enuff time...or too much... "

too much time, i think. but i guess people have other stuff to do, so i suppose they need time.

By william vaughan (Proton) (207.235.86.2) on Friday, January 10, 2003 - 10:37 am:

I've had a lot of requests to make the contests last longer....so I thought this would be a good test to see if 2 months gives everyone enuff time...

By Jeff (Pixelmonk1) (156.80.138.177) on Friday, January 10, 2003 - 11:46 am:

Yeah but who would use max anyways?

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By Scott Lange (Castius) (208.58.117.41) on Thursday, January 09, 2003 - 05:23 pm:


That sounds a bit borderline to me. This is a bit extream but here is an example: Animate a character in max and loaded the motion capture to the model for a lw charater animation contest. The differnce is magpie is a lw plugin. Just wanted to throughing that out there.

By stephen gilbert (Cresshead) (62.254.0.4) on Friday, January 10, 2003 - 02:17 pm:

i feel lightwave is as good if not a whole bunch better than max for lipsync...as long as you don't use facestation or ventriliquist for max as a speed up for the lipsync.

steve g

By kevin phillips (Kevman) (210.48.24.113) on Friday, January 10, 2003 - 05:31 pm:

I think 2 months is a good timeframe for this, even more so if people plan on creating some models as well

Besides, after listening to the audio, you're going to actually have to do some *animation* of the character as well to pull off something great - I can't see too much challenge in just making some lips move on a character with audio track! That could be quite, eh, boring to watch!

Anyone wanting some cool reference ideas how to approach this contest should look at the 10second club and see what people have been doing with audio tracks and animation...

http://www.10secondclub.org

Odd prize though - Most home/hobbyist/students may not have a need for it, however its good news for small studios who can benefit from it!

By Michael Green (Dodgy) (62.137.153.15) on Saturday, January 11, 2003 - 05:13 am:

Can we use non-shipped plugins??

By william vaughan (Proton) (207.235.86.2) on Saturday, January 11, 2003 - 09:30 am:

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=36545

By Jim Williams (Hiraghm) (65.70.121.97) on Wednesday, January 15, 2003 - 12:10 pm:

Seems to me the judges need the 2 months more than the entrants.... 8c)

Speaking of which, when can we see the october contest animations? I want to see the winning animation... I'm dying to know how the logo we're not supposed to change either comes from or goes to the still image posted for it. Along with a dozen other questions.