Animate Talking

I haven't found a way to do this in Storyline. There is however, a program I found here in the Forums where you can assign a Text to a character and lip sync' the audio to make it seem that the character is the one talking. You can sign up for a free 14 day trial there and it has a wide variety of cartoon characters. It's www.goanimate.com

There was also an example here in the forums, where the user somehow downloaded the video in mp4 format and inserted it in a Storyline file. 

I got hooked in Goanimate for a while, it's so much fun.... but of course not as GREAT as Storyline.....  right moderators...?

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Elisa,

Thank you for your quick response,  I'll check out goanimate.com.

Rob

Ha! Thanks Elisa for the shout out. :-)

We're happy to hear about other elements that help you out in making your courses awesome! 

Hello Rob. 

I had to create a project in which I wanted the characters to "talk". So I created a file that emulates the talking by just changing the state of the illustrated character. Take a look.... I attached the Storyline file

Hi Elisa,

That's exacty what we need :)

Thank you!

Rob

Awesome! Thanks for popping in again Elisa :) Glad this will assist you Rob.

This is a little advanced but I use After Effects to animate my characters in my courses. 

Here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20geJ02ub3o

Wow, that's great. Thank you for sharing Jerson. I'll give it a try

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If you are going to try it, I suggest getting the DUIK tools to animate the characters. This has been the best tool in after effects to animate characters.  This makes it very easy to create a character rig.

There are plenty of tutorials to learn how to use it.  

Also here is tutorial on how to lip sync the characters.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1627kdaen1Q

Use the Moho Script for this.  Makes it super easy. 

Thank you Jerson

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Great info, Jerson -- thanks for sharing your suggestions. :)

Hello Elisa,

I've tried emulating the illustrated characters to talk, seems like they ain't working.

I'm attaching an example file, can you please check and help me.

Regards,

Alfred

Hi Alfred! Not sure if Elisa is still subscribed to the thread, but you are welcome to reach out to the user directly via the Contact Me option on the user profile if needed.

In your attached file, the states of normal and talking are the same image.

Did you take a peek at the file that Elisa shared above with the various states to simulate 'talking'?

Hi Alfred, Let me take a look at it and I'll let you know... :)

Alfred, I have the first version of Storyline, so it doesn't let me open your file which I imagine was created in Storyline 2. If you open the file I created, you will find that the character has several states opening and closing his mouth and smiling. To make the character change from one state to another, I just added triggers along with rectangles that I inserted outside the slide. Each trigger is attached to each rectangle inserted. The trigger should be like this:

Change state of CHARACTER1 to STATE2 

when Timeline starts for RECTANGLE1

Then you can replicate this trigger for all the rectangles you insert and you can alternate the states so you can simulate mouth movement. 

I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions

Hello Elisa,

Thanks for your reply. I apparently got it working now. Thank you so much. :-)

Leslie, Thanks for your response too. :-)

Regards,

Alfred