Product Features

• Revolutionary tool for creating sophisticated, zaney or dramatic talking characters for unique digital content
• Simply import an image and CrazyTalk guides you through the process to bring it to life
• Automatic Audio Lip-sync from Text and Voice
• Edit and Customise Expressions & Emotions for Your Actors
• Revolutionary Storytelling Engine with Actor Animation Control
• The Fastest Way to Generate Virtual Actors for any Media Project
• Timeline Editor for commanding performance (2 Tracks)

Manufacturer''s Description 

CrazyTalk is a revolutionary tool for creating sophisticated, zaney or dramatic talking characters for unique digital content. Simply import an image and CrazyTalk guides you through the process to bring it to life with wizard-like menus for beginners and in-depth power editors for pros.

Multi-character Setup from any Image
New! Multi-character setup is easy with the fitting wizard that can identify up to 4 actors in any image. Simply use Select/De-select to add or delete a character.
New! 2 major frames for face & full body fitting: Face frame for facial animation; Body frame for full character transformation.
The character frame can be in any quadrilateral shape, increase the layout flexibility and make the most of pixel resolution.

Auto Face Fitting Technology
The full featured image editor allows you to rotate, crop images, do color correction, and leads you to the face fitting procedure - all in the same environment.
CrazyTalk automatically fits the facial wireframe to your image. You can also use 4 simple clicks to identify the corners of the eyes and the mouth. Once finished, you can have the complete control to fine-tune the fitting points.
New! Direct image import from your web cam for faster face fitting.

9 Face Profiles for a Variety of Characters
Enhanced facial mesh for a wide range of face types to better fit different facial contour, especially for non-human characters.
CrazyTalk Face Profile Styles allow you to animate different characters, including human, animal, and cartoon-like faces with realistic performance behaviour.

NEW! Face Orientation & Enhanced Hair Mesh
Increased facial angle prevents photo distortion during facial rotation.
New! Face Orientation function allows you to edit front and side (45°) images.
New! With the advanced hair mesh layer that can handle characters with long hair, horns and ears, you can have accurate and natural animation.

Custom Facial Features
Advanced Facial Settings allow you to fine-tune the color, position, scale of the eyes, teeth, mouth and lips.
Customise eyes and teeth to perfectly match your character''s personality by importing any custom image for the eye and teeth texture.

NEW! VividEye Technology
New! 4 layers of eye settings greatly improve the realism of virtual eyes - Eyeballs, Eye Optics, Eyelashes, Eye Shadow.
New! Match the right style of the virtual eyes to your character with VividEye templates - Anime, Animal, CG Cartoon, Comic, Human.
New! Create intelligent and reflective eyes with EyeOptics feature.
New! Use Eye Shadow and Lashes toremove the texture bleeding when the eyes close or blink.
New! Facial Cosmetic function adds fashion color and cosmetics to your character.

Masking for Custom Image Background with Realistic 3D Head Movement
CrazyTalk''s masking tools can instantly remove the original background by using key color picking and tolerance setting. Replace the background with any new color or image.
Your virtual host can be transformed from a dull scene to an exciting beach vacation or appear in a sea of flowers.

Auto Lip-sync from Audio or Text
Easily import a Wav file or record your own voice using the built-in audio capture function or your PC microphone.
Get the best phoneme data to your talking photo by automatic lip-synching.
Advancement in Text-to-Speech inside CrazyTalk offers better quality for all end users and additional serious solutions for text driven synthetic voice performance.

Emotives Library - Attitude Based Animation
Edit your entire Timeline with one click. Emotives are a complete emotional animation track master preset that assigns a global mood to your animated avatar.
Emotives feature thematic animation presets adding automatic expressions, movement for head, shoulders, eyes, and accurate special effects to the Timeline emphasizing the selected Emotive theme such as happiness, excitement, fear, or desire.

Motion Clips - Instant Facial Performance Clips
Motion Clips add instant expressions including full face, eye, head, and SFX track performance. Simply "drag and drop" the available Motion Clips in the library to the Timeline to apply instant expressions.

Real-time Puppeteering - Solo Feature Control
Use a mouse or handheld device to puppet character animation. Select characters or facial features and puppet their behavior in as you playback to recorded audio in real-time.

Real-time Puppeteering - Full Facial Control
5 default puppet profiles define instant personality performance for puppeteering, including Wicked, Goofy, Youthful, Attractive and Grumpy, as well as six emotion styles included with advanced select and de-select layer editing capability to provide full control of the puppet facial features.
Detailed property parameter settings for single muscle movement. Assign different weight for controlling specific muscle movement during the real-time puppeteering.
Real-time Puppeteering - Head & Body Movement Control.
Free head movement via the head movement control panel to freely move or rotate head location.
New! Free body movement via the character movement control panel to freely move or scale your digital actor for a dynamic comic show.

NEW? Masked Image Support for Dialogue & Comic Animation
New! Import a TGA or PNG file with alpha channel for free actor movement control.
New! Use masking tools to create custom stage background and ensure realistic 3D head movement.

NEW? Stage Editor - Multi-character Track Arrangement
New! Stage editor for casting actors and multi-character rundown control.
New! Total linear animation control with character, camera and audio tracks.
New! Track Zoom function for focused area editing.

Stage Editor - Background Music & Camera System
New! Enhanced camera system allows moving, rotating and zooming for different views of your story.
Independent audio track for background music editing.

Stage & Timeline Editing
New! Two major editors: Stage Editor for casting actors; Timeline Editor for detailed script editing of the individual character.
Click any CTS on the character track in Stage Editor and launch individual track editing windows for script editing.

Popular Image & Video Format Output
Video export with various supported types, including AVI, MPEG-4, RM, WMV, NTSC, PAL.
Turn your timeline output into frame-by-frame image sequences in alpha-channel ready Targa or Bitmap format, or extract the audio layer from any CrazyTalk project.

NEW? Export for Web - iWidget & Web Avatar
New! Export iWidget (background-transparent web avatar) and directly publish it to any blog or website.
New! Create Web Avatar (live interactive avatar) for Web 2.0 applications.
Generate virtual hosts for web pages.
Add fun or informative actors to any social networks.

NEW? YouTube Direct Publishing
New! Instantly share your creation on YouTube via CrazyTalk optimized output function.
New! Auto log in to your account and upload videos with custom tag definition.

Superimpose Your Virtual Actor on Other Video Editors
The industry standard video formats, Windows Media or Real Media allow you to export your video ready for playing in any PC, over the web, and offer the highest compatibility for video producers to import digital videos to their productions.