Wizaerd wrote:


although I agree with the single track I am going to answer this anyhow because the system is not that hard to adapt to and yes I use iclone and "them other softwares" If your only changing a word in the track its easy to edit in and swap out the dialogue without much fuss. Again though unless the word is the exact same length etc your messing up your animation.

if you introduce a pause you will need to shuffle the animations a bit no matter using the clip method if you move the clips in iclone your going to have to adjust the rest of the timeline unless you like your people gesturing where they should not be etc so really this is a moot point.

I dont like having to rebuild an audio clip its true to insert another word however again unless your character is motionless and staring at a camera your going to need to adjust all his gestures to take stock of the added pause and change in where the words are. Its not an insurmountable obstacle this one I would like seperate clips as well however truth be told if your not fussy about the animations then all your really doing is editing a clip in audacity adding and subtracting a word here and there and re-importing the clip and replacing it in the exact same spot. If you dont care about the related animations in the timeline and them being in synch with the dialogue you just change the work involved is not huge. If you do care about the related animations in the timeline and them being in synch your going to have to move them and edit your eyemovements, head movements, handmovements regardless of adding or subtracting a pause or dialogue.

The only improvement the ability to import little clips would add to this system is it would remove the need to use shush and talk at all which would speed this portion of the animation process up. Otherwise though there is no other real difference because no matter what method you use if your changing your timeline your going to need to shuffle everything around to match as all the motions will be out of synch. Again though that is if you care about such things..

Its cumbersome, but not THAT cumbersome but then I live in the camp is "if it gets the job done then its really not that bad" we are talking 5 or 10 minutes time difference to edit the audio clip.. maybe
edited by urbanlamb on 26/04/2014

whatever solution is introduced your going to have this issue even with other softwares because you will need to extend things and change animations.

In order to mitigate this you should have copies of your sets laid out and save them as you do the dialogue so that if you need to go back and rerender for any multitude of reasons you still have the set with the dialogue attached. Unfortunately I can't think of any situation where if i change the dialogue I would not have to rerender and adjust things. Even in live action situation you would need to redo the scene.

So for these issues as you do your scenes and dialogue save out the set with a number beside it and then move onto the next bit and save out another copy of the set with the next number .

Hello! To answer your question, here's how I get two characters to converse. There may be other solutions, but this is what works for me:


1. Download the free audio recording/editing software Audacity.
2. Record your dialogue using whatever program you normally use, making sure to save each individual line as a separate audio file.
3. Drag and drop all dialogue into Audacity. This will initially place all the audio files on top of one another.
4. In the Edit menu, go down to the Select sub-menu and tell it to select all.
5. In the Tracks menu, go down to the Align Tracks sub-menu and tell it to align end to end. This should generate one long audio file of the whole conversation.
6. In the File menu, select Export and save the audio track wherever you like.
7. Once you have everything set up in Muvizu, import this audio file.
8. Synch both characters to the audio track. Which ever one speaks first, set them initially to talk and set the other one initially to shush.
9. Go to record dialogue with the first character and have them talk on their lines and shush during the other character's lines. This is done in real time as the audio track plays, so you may need to move the talk and shush markers after recording to fine tune it.
10. Repeat this process with the other character.


And voila! You now have two characters talking to one another. Hope that helps!

Wizaerd wrote:


I dont think this was made in a real time engine.
edited by urbanlamb on 26/03/2014

Nice lighting and modelling and the idea could work for a series but, TBH you need to find newer jokes and cut down on the fluff. The joke only takes up around 15 of the 84 secs. Tighten her up and give her some new fuel and she could be a runner

Hi All. Just noticed that one or two new assets are to be used as 'head attachments'! I know that you can import various items and attach them to the head ie a new hat say....! how is a (head) imported????? There doesn't seem to be a way in Muvizu to change a characters head? Am I missing something?

I would hardly consider the ability for two characters to have a conversation, or for a single character to have several lines for that matter, to be hardcore anything. That's rudimentary storytelling.

I am currently working on a small scene to try out the software and haven't yet done the audio. But this limitation would be a huge PITA, and hardly useful to any storytelling software.

octo-crab wrote:


In what way is it "neat"? How does it contribute to me creating a movie? There are enough difficulties involved in working with Muvizu without having pointless "eye candy" exarcebating the situation.

Wizaerd wrote:


dunno i never have any problems controlling the camera. the arrow keys backwards/forwards, rotate left and right. Q up, E down, A left, D right. pitch left/right. page up/page down/tilt up and down. one hand on the left side of the keyboard one on the other. fair enough for really complex camera moves it can get tricky but i dont find it that hard. with a bit of practice you can pull off some fancy moves. i grew up playing dodgy zx spectrum games so i suppose the wafty keyboard control skills never left me lol.

primaveranz wrote:


how are you controlling your cameras? using the mouse is a waste of time. using the keyboard is the way to go. for some really fancy moves you will need four hands though