Facial Animation of LEGO® Minifigs

A good idea by Max Goldberg

All credits to him..check it out.

 (http://www.kyleprohaska.com/brickfilms/facial_ani/index.htm)

excerpt..

Digital faces look great. If you do them right. The problem with digital faces is that they are so easy to

mess up. Almost always, the faces look out of place because they look too sharp, or just don't look

like they are actually on the face at all.

With the method I am about to show you, the faces will always look like they are really

there because they actually are.

The only software you need is Papagayo and Microsoft Word (Or something that lets you make labels).

Papagayo is a program that lets you import a WAV or MP3, view the waveform frame by frame

(You can change the framerate to match your movie. I recommend 15 fps) and choose a mouth

for each frame. To make this even easier, Papagayo lets you type in what is being said, and

it will put the correct mouths on the waveform. You just need to drag and drop the frames where they should go.