LipServiceTM     Demo Page
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The LipService facial animation program is a unique software package that enables animators to quickly and easily create and animate a huge variety of  facial expressions, mouth movements and phonemes, all with remarkably realistic results.  In addition to animation, LipService includes some pretty incredible sculpting tools unlike any you've ever seen. If you've ever mushed clay around, you'll feel right at home. You can even propagate a modeling change to all 50 poses with one click!!  
 
    LipService animations can be puppeteered in real time with a mouse, or manually keyframed with a simple one-click operation. Also, LipService .scene files make an excellent dope sheet  to aid in overall posing and 3D body animation. They're very small, well labled ASCII files.
 
   LipService also interpolates this animation in a unique way. Target to target animation is interpolated with a splined motion path for each vertex. This means perfect velocity continuity across keys - no morphy looking animation. On top of that, you can layer delta morph animation for eyeblinks, smiles, frowns, eyemovement, breathing... these layers get added to your keyframed layer and can be performed in real-time with the mouse.

      When animating or previewing, you can scrub your WAV file a frame at a time, or play it back real-time. Changes you make to models immediately update your animation display for instant feedback. You may also quickly render a solid flipbook if you are an a slow machine.

    Integration with Lightwave and StudioMAX is included in the form of plugins which read your .scene file into the respective packages. The plugins evaluate the scene on a subframe basis, which means you're renders motion blur. It also means you can change the frame rate without re-animating. Animated something for film, now you want to go to video without 3/2 pulldown? Just change the framerate (in Lightwave or StudioMAX) and re-render!

  LipService Also includes 50 targets (Zeke's face) for tutorial/quickstart learning. You don't need to be technical to learn. This package's animation tools should be very familiar to animators and puppeteers alike. The sculpting tools should be familiar to anyone who's ever used clay. Most people are animating in 10 minutes. Try our demo version you won't be dissapointed!!
 

       
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