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Reallusion Introduces CrazyTalk 4.0 Media Studio(TM); Software Provides Enhanced Features and Greater Creativity for Amateurs or Professionals to Create Fully Animated, Talking Actors with Four Clicks of the Mouse.


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, Calif. -- Reallusion, a leading developer of animation and graphic software, has released the latest version of their CrazyTalk software line, titled CrazyTalk 4.0 Media Studio. Allowing users to create animations from a single photo with an easy-to-use interface, this new version of the award winning CrazyTalk is a completely new software solution. Capable of creating convincingly life-like facial facial /fa·cial/ (fa´shul) pertaining to or directed toward the face.

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 animations, CrazyTalk is perfect for professional or entry-level digital video projects, home video production and the creation of fully-interactive 'virtual' internet hosts.

Creating your own animation is a simple four step process using CrazyTalk Media Studio's powerful auto-fitting features and animation menus. The user imports a single digital photo, and CrazyTalk's auto fitting wizard Instructional help in an application or system development environment that guides the user through a series of multiple choice questions to accomplish a task. For the most part, wizards are more effective than the help menus found in most applications, which often border on the atrocious.  automatically finds the eyes and mouth to animate the image, although manual adjustments are allowed for fine tuning Fine Tuning is the name of XM Satellite Radio's eclectic music channel. The program director for Fine Tuning is Ben Smith.

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 your animations. Next the user can record a personal message or import any pre-recorded wave file. CrazyTalk then magically morphs your photo into a fully animated video. The final step is to export the animation as full-screen digital video, web-ready interactive online content, or share your creation as a unique talking email. The output is also mobile phone friendly and can be exported as a unique mobile experience.

CrazyTalk 4.0 also allows users to create their own animated avatars for Reallusion's new free CrazyTalk for Skype Lite(TM). CrazyTalk for Skype Lite is available from Reallusion's website and offers the next evolution in online chatting - adding animated characters, music and emotion to your Skype chat session. With CrazyTalk for Skype Lite, your animated avatars change mood as you type and communicate, displaying 25 different emotions, including sadness, sarcasm, confusion and affection, accompanied by music and sound effects sound effects
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Editing your CrazyTalk projects is also a new experience with this latest version. CrazyTalk Media Studio's "Timeline" function is an advanced editing interface designed to provide professional-level facial animation control. Users can now control the animation track sequence, producing perfect lip-synchronization, precisely placed emotional expressions and distinctive natural human motion with key-frame head, eye and shoulder movement. Simplified previewing and zoom To change from a distant view to a more close-up view (zoom in) and vice versa (zoom out). An application may provide fixed or variable levels of zoom. A display adapter may also have built-in zoom capability.  editing make this feature a powerful timesaver Timesaver is a well-known model railroad train shunting puzzle created by John Allen. It consists of a specific track layout, a set of initial conditions, a defined goal, and rules which must be obeyed while performing the shunting operations. .

CrazyTalk Media Studio lets anyone create virtual animated actors from digital photos for their movies, emails, website and mobile phones. Available now on Reallusion's website store, the retail price of CrazyTalk Media Studio is $149.50 (USD USD

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). For more information or to learn about other CrazyTalk products, CrazyTalk Live ($99.50) and CrazyTalk Messenger ($49.50), please visit www.reallusion.com.

About Reallusion

Reallusion is a U.S. based software company developing multimedia design tools, embedded Inserted into. See embedded system.  kernels, and service platforms for PC and mobile devices. Reallusion's patented solutions feature imaging, video, and 3D computer graphics innovations. For general product information or business development, please contact Reallusion at 408-350-1693 or visit www.reallusion.com
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