Get Your Face Animated With CrazyTalk

CrazyTalk is an interesting application which can take an imported image then animate it using technical wizardry, lip-syncing to an audio track as necessary, and the output used in all manner of digital content from video casting to website helpers.

You are guided through the application via a series of wizard-like menu systems – taking as much of the complexity out as you need. A number of demo images are included in the application to get you started, these include a range of styles from human like, cartoon, Manga, and creatures (a frog for example).

Currently up to version 6.31, a free trial of CrazyTalk is available (82MB download) allowing you to test the application for up to 14 days after registration. Upon purchase of the full version all of the limitations of the free trial version are removed which includes removal of the watermark, activation of output to MP4, up to 28 embedded models, and 163 embedded SFX (89 embedded SFX are available in the trial version).

Software requirements of CrazyTalk are Windows XP (SP2+), Vista and Internet Explorer 6+, or Firefox 2+.  DirectX 9 and  Windows Media Encoder 9 are also required for WMV exporting. A video introducing CrazyTalk (version 6), in particular its facial puppeteering effects, is included below so you can get an idea of how it works.

We are looking at this application at the moment so we’ll report more once we have given it a good evaluation. If you know of any applications that utilise CrazyTalk let us know.

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