More hair options, more clothing options, need animals. Make the dog act like a dog too.

I would love a neutral emotional state for characters, with accompanying poses.

I would love a neutral emotional state for characters, with accompanying poses. When people listen to someone else talk in casual conversation, they rarely show emotion. This would also help in emotional transitions so characters aren't just cycling through angry, sad, happy and scared, which rarely happens in real life. Also, it's just weird to start a scene when characters all have very specific emotional states.

That said, I'm a newbie and I think it's a great product.

Hopefully, there will be new features that will allow me to do what I needed to do (or at least, fake it).

So, when it finally arrives, what will the next release contain? The short answer is everything and at the same time, not much. Everything under the hood has changed - for the better, we think, and so that should improve stability, but very little of this is visible.

Also, how about multiple soundtrack channels for smoother dialogue direction. No more characters mouthing to other characters dialogue.

Dreeko - you're the inventive one, what can you do with this?
I know you can get some pretty 'interesting' effects when you rotate the tail attachment...

Not really an action but it's my 2p's worth...

I'd like to see a blue tooth headset / ear piece accessory to allow you to do phone calls. This way you avoid any problems with handsets being lifted to the ear or kept in place as the head moves. It'd also let you do any existing animation to suit the conversation your character is having.

I'd really like to see some sort of phone animation - one good reason for having this is that there TONS of funny prank call audio files that are just crying out to be animated!

This looks like a very interesting/exciting roadmap for the future - it's great to see that the team have such adventurous plans for the future.

By the way Jim, best of luck in your new venture you have been a tremendous help to me and many others with your informative, friendly and concise input in the forum. I'm sure you will be a great success in your new job.

Hi inlimbo/Pinguino,

The devs intend to allow importing of pretty much any custom content, and the current plan is to implement it in this order:

Objects (Done) > Character Attachments > Animations > Characters

Following up on when I can recreate Raising Arizona in Muvizu. After the Unreal Engine gets updated, when might I expect to be able to do something similar to this?

1. Ability to hold and carry a box (Huggies).

2. Ability to crawl.

Thanks for listening!

freakmoomin wrote:

Is anyone else scared by what sort of video would need this sequence of animations?

handshake
cuddle
cuddle and kiss
some explosion flying through the air death type animations
poison choke death

freakmoomin wrote:


Does this mean we're going to get an "explosion" effect? I definitely need one.

...some explosion flying through the air death type animations ...

Ive recently made some new animations following some suggestions, hopefully they will be available in the program soon....

handshake
cuddle
cuddle and kiss
some explosion flying through the air death type animations
poison choke death

some lying down poses (these are just static poses but with the lipsync, head and eye movement this should give people some options)

At some stage we MAY do a whole lying down mood but hopefully this will help for now....
edited by freakmoomin on 04/12/2010

I could do with kissing (oo-er).

...and possibly hugging.

While I work up a spec for a new computer and continue experimenting with some very basic Muvizu tests, I've been watching a lot of examples in the gallery and elsewhere. I've gradually come to the conclusion that refining and considerably extending the range, type and subtlety of movements will be the key to Muvizu's long-term success --- probably more so than the addition of new characters or character-types.

What has struck me over the last couple of weeks is the frequency with which I keep seeing the same moves in diverse animations. After awhile the novelty starts to pall and I start wishing for something a bit different. From my perspective (and this is just a personal feeling), I think that additional subtlety and variety need to be developed within the existing bands of happy/sad/strong etc..

Even though the Muvizu characters are cartoonish in nature, this doesn't always mean that very dramatic or extreme moves are the order of the day. It may well be that existing libraries of movements could be modified to provide an even wider range of choices from the very subtle to the quite extreme within particular categories of movement.

One consequent problem, of course, would necessarily be an enlargement of the menus from which moves can be selected and maybe the associated need to increase the number of movements which can be linked together so as to create less repetitive sequences.

Because Muvizu, by its very nature precludes users from actually drawing their characters or defining and creating their own individual movements, it stands to reason that as wide and graduated a range of options will need to be available if the program is to have a really long shelf-life in the rapidly evolving world of DIY animation.

That's my two penn-orth anyway.