hello and welcome back animes is now in general release as of the 17th of november
and available on steam i thought it'd be good to take a good look around animes
and a look at the avatars and see how this can make your meetings and classroom engagements fun
jumping into the steam client and doing a quick search on animes you can see it's free to play
clicking on that takes you to the general page now like i say it's available on the 17th of november
as this video comes out it will be available and thank you very much to holotech studios
for this early press release copy as you can see you can change your avatars to different favorites
with different backgrounds as well and they really have done some good work on the facial tracking
over the beta now i've installed anime's desktop on my pc and i've got it linked to my microsoft
life camera so we're going to take a look around the interface and get ourselves working
so effectively we're going to go to the animes menu item the top left hand corner of the screen
and we're going to pop down the first thing we'll look at is avatars right so this time
with avatars you've got a number of points you can see the points that i've been allocated
by holotech and facerig in the top right hand side so i've got 2 000 credits here you can
use these credits to unlock different avatars some avatars are going to come free as standard
for example i'm using the penguin i've also got bruce chumpster as well that you saw earlier on
in the video so you can select across a number of the pre-loaded ones as i also mentioned there's
an editor where you can also make your own now where the slightly difference from face rig is
the fact that you can move your avatars around the screen a bit so we hold the shift key down
and you can move the camera angle
hold the control key down and you can move your avatar around the screen
now i've got a background here it's a nice sort of polynesian sort of resort with the pool
and i think that matches bruce chumpster's persona quite well we'll come on to backgrounds
in a minute but we'll go through the process of selecting a different avatar so if we go through
the avatars we've got on the screen so we've got a little lion kerb we've got um freddie the fish
we've got a toilet roll a virus quite topical really i suppose they take a little while to to
load up but there they are if for any reason you get a problem where for example one eye blinks the
other eye doesn't holding the control in c down brings up the calibration now you can see me with
the dots around my chin and my face and around my eyes and the distance of the camera towards
me clicking calibrate and holding a neutral expression will allow you to calibrate animes
good calibration and then as you can see i haven't got one eye closing
and the other eye closing and the facial expressions on the avatar are a lot better
okay so we've got some of the old favorites that are coming from face rig particularly the burger
we've got uh the fox as well fluff of the fox we've got the cat the bear i do like the bear
the berries i think one of the best ones on it and you've got other ones as well with funny favorites
you've got um a leaf you've got a bomb you've got uh what's that an aubergine i think a peach trump
because it was topical um and you got things like toilets and burgers and what have you and you got
a load of anime characters as well which you can unlock for credits so and also a pig so
i'm going to go around and i'm going to unlock once we'll unlock trump just for the sake of
it so we'll unlock that for 399 um credits by there and lock that so i'm purchasing the trump
it's loading up and here it is so quite a good model as well you know like i said we can um
hold the control button down and move it around a bit so no legs obviously but you can uh set
the distance and of course holding the shift key down for the camera angle you can zoom around your
particular background so that's it on avatars so far so moving on you can see that i have chosen
the velociraptor for the model again i can press ctrl and c to hold the calibration
there's that neutral expression and again the model resets so that's all good stuff now the
background i've got here doesn't particularly it's not conducive to the avatar that i've got
so clicking on backgrounds brings up a number of backgrounds now you can see i've got the pool
there there's a number of pre-loaded ones for example the sunny vondelpark we've got
a flower road all these ones have been pre-loaded um by holotech and facerig okay some are more apt
to others or you can put your own one in now i've got a screenshot from a game i generally
play um up there as well but just for you know demonstration purposes clicking on confirm
and there it is there's my velociraptor again which i can move around the screen
next to my screenshot of choice again backgrounds click the plus button and then you can pick
a number of other backgrounds i haven't got anything particularly particularly interesting in
there um that you can have your avatar up against for example i don't know perhaps say a viper
what that's going to do with dinosaurs i really don't know anyway but there you go so we can
select a different background so we'll go for that one there confirm flower road which is
probably more apt to our velociraptor so that was backgrounds how to select a background and
how to load a background into animes step we're going to talk about props now you may notice on
the bottom bar next to avatars in between voice and voice will come on to props clicking on props
you've guessed it is going to be another number of props you can add comedy hats change the color
use the sliders to color your hat select that color change them
football helmets witches hats headphones
some are more apt again to some avatars than others
you know what that one's got what is that that is a plunger on his head you know whatever floats
your boat really um and no doubt there'll be more avatar prop items coming in the future which you
can buy with your points so we're gonna go for a cowboy hat right there it is it's a little
bit too small and it's the fault um sort of like configuration right so what we're going to do is
is we're going to enlarge it you've got this slider by here to enlarge the hat or you know
make it smaller tiny little hat why you want to do that i don't know but you can put a massive hat on
on this this fox's head or a normal sized hat as well and again you can change the colors
make it a bit red nice red hat in advanced settings as well you can
mess around with the x and y position and you can see it's poking above his ears really so let's
go for um this access here you can raise the hat up and down so it fits perhaps a bit more neatly
on your avatar's head and his ears aren't really poking through they are poking through a little
bit but not so much so that's the advanced section and that's how to use props on your animes avatar
next up in animes is gonna be animations now this is something that we were crying out for
really within face wig which was animations yes you can move your head from side to side
and your mouth moves and you can close your eyes you can open your eyes make them wide and
your eyebrows and all the rest of it right that's fantastic and we can see how all that is tracking
uh in regards to a little picture in picture so here you go you can see me my very sort of busy um
busy workspace behind me uh and my face and where the dots are tracking me however there are
also other animations you can use clicking the animations button shows you the animations you
can use right for this particular avatar so okay uh press the q key and he waves press the w key
and he shrugs press the e it's the sort of no no no okay uh and what's next press the r button
and you get a thumbs up now these animations are different for some other avatars as well
so but it is quite a good extra dimension you can add especially if you're using this within
meetings like zoom google meet blue jeans cisco that sort of thing microsoft teams so
yes indeed i think it's good animations so next up something i want to talk about is screenshots
um and record and the broadcast this button here as well now typically as with facerig
you had to broadcast uh what you were seeing on your screen to get it into a program such as
google meet this is exactly the same hitting that broadcast button means that you're broadcasting
uh if you wanted limited time it's a subscribe button but for this particular version
i've got 89 minutes where i can use this avatar with a meeting tool like google meet
zoom microsoft teams blue jeans cisco webex that sort of stuff also just as a matter of point
with google classroom that operates through google meet so you could use that on there if your school
or district has not locked that down by something called a group policy and that would be down to
the school admins um not being the fun police anyway so as you can see we've got a number of
minutes here uh that are ticking down as i'm broadcasting this will then mean i can then
put this into a tool like meat or teams and i'll do a video on that uh in the near future
so as i mentioned i've put a green screen behind my bare now i can record this to my pc
don't forget you've also got all your animations there but you can you can press and you can record
and then what i can do i can go into my tool of choice whether that's video studio or any other
video editing like camtasia i can remove the green from the background and then impose this bear onto
i don't know a background of choice really good for education really good for um so bringing a
little bit of fun into schools as well i mean if you're gonna be um talking about i don't know
sharks for example for want of a better wood then it'd be so easy to then to record what something
or record a video for your class and then impose you know bruce the shark on and then put it on a
backdrop to explain say something about sharks you know using your imagination dinosaurs for example
that would be really good so anyway we've done a bit of recording here we're going to stop that
and then given the choice to save it locally so we'll click save as
i've got my videos here in my animes folder we'll select that folder and it's saved as an mpeg
file now you can change the mpeg file between mpeg and mp4 and i'll cover that in a minute
now here you go i've got my bare my live feed
and i've also got a file explorer up where i've saved my recording so double clicking on that
and there's my recording okay now another function that's really important within animes
is how to set your input there's an awful lot about having to use your iphone um as a webcam
for that and we'll cover that in another video but what i want to cover is the actual selection
of your own webcam if it doesn't do it by default this is done by this menu bar down here as you can
see i've got my lifecam is selected any others like video input tools like chromacam will also
show up here as well or you can connect your iphone so there you go make sure that your
webcam is selected you can see yourself in that picture and picture and then animes
will pick that up and with a bit of calibration transfer your facial expressions to your avatar
so there you have it everybody i've changed avatar yet again that was a quick run through of the
functions of the new animes application that's available on november the 17th
2020 on steam take a look enjoy it make sure you have some fun and inject some fun
into some meetings see you soon and look out for more videos in the series
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