Phantom of the DAZ Studio
This was a test that snowballed into way too much obsessive work to finish a 20 second scene. ( I only did POTO because I did a still scene a couple of years back and I thought I could see what it would look like to animate his mouth.)
I read a post about using the free PAPAGAYO LIP SYNC tool
https://my.smithmicro.com/papagayo.html
and then transfer the data into daz using the free Script For Importer Lip Sync in DAZ Studio UPDATE.
https://www.sharecg.com/…/Script-For-Importer-Files-Lip-Syn…
It worked, but not 100% accurate as papagayo doesn't have all of the visemes that G8 has. What does work nicely is that it gives you a clear synced timeline to the music you're trying to animate. I popped the audio clip into DAZ and saw the synced keyframes that corresponded. From there I tweaked the visemes ( substituting "W" for "T" and "SH" for "S" etc..)
It was turning out better than expected! So then, I applied it to the still scene and that's when the obsession exploded. I had to animate him...I had to animate the girl. ... and well I think you get the idea.
So here's the workflow with a lot of redo:
PAPGAYO TO DAZ ( Lip Sync importer ) FACE TRANSFER ( Michael Crawford ) Setup Scene in DAZ then split the elements into sub scenes. Rendered in Iray (Girl, Guy, Candelabras, Background,) Rendered in Octane ( Shadows ) Rendered the fog volume in C4D Composited in After Effects Finished in Premier Pro
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