The Synfig team posts a look at the new integration between Synfig Studio and Papagayo for creating lip sync animations.
There are some other options out there other than the downward-spiraling After Effects for animation. Some of those options are even free and open source.
SynFig Studio
Synfig studio is one of those options. Synfig Studio represents free and open source 2D vector and bitmapped animation.
Synfig studio was designed to be “industrial strength”, pushing forward the vision of synfig being a viable solution for film and broadcast quality animation.
The freely available animation package is actually quite robust, offering a familiar keyframe timeline, with bones and a suite of rigging tools for rigging 2d characters. Add to that the fact that Synfig is available for more platforms than After Effects, and Synfig Studio might be worth the look. You can get Synfig for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
Papagayo, The Lip Sync Animation Tool
Papagayo is freely available lip-sync software that was built to help animators line up phonemes and mouth shapes with a recorded audio track.
You can even use Papagayo to help out with After Effects work. A while back a tutorial showed how you can use Papagayo to automatically create Lip-sync animation for an After Effects project.
In Papagayo, all you have to do is type in the words that are being spoken, then drag the words on top of the sound’s waveform until they line up with the proper sounds.
Download Papagayo:
- Windows and Linux: http://morevnaproject.org/software/#p…
- OSX: http://lostmarble.com/papagayo-home/
Download Synfig:
