I was watching my 8 year old work on the computer this morning. She's been through my Youth Technology Camp program and loved the animation streams I taught. She uses a tool called MOHO from Lost Marble and has created some great 2D cartoon animations on her PC. What caught my attention this morning was a new software application from Lost Marble that she was using in conjunction with MOHO.
Papagayo is a lip-syncing program designed to help you line up phonemes (mouth shapes) with the actual recorded sound of actors speaking. Papagayo makes it easy to lip sync animated characters by making the process very simple - just type in the words being spoken (or copy/paste them from the animation's script), then drag the words on top of the
sound's waveform until they line up with the proper sounds.
It's amazing to see what kids can do with their computers - they seem to just think differently about how to use them. If you want something for your kids to do on your home PC instead of just surfing the web, chatting on Messenger or playing games then click here to check out Papagayo. Remember, you need to download MOHO first.
What a super tool.
My son is 15 and is really enjoying it.
thanks,
Rick
Posted by: Rick Moraeux | January 02, 2006 at 11:13 PM
Moho is great fun, but when you couple it with papagayo to get your toons talking- it is a super-blast!
Posted by: Roger L. Waggener | May 11, 2006 at 04:29 PM
please help me i want to ranimation refrens book
Posted by: shereer | June 28, 2006 at 10:53 AM
Animation that has been provided is very enjoable
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