welcome back have you been having meetings lately with toilet rolls toilets donald trump foxes bears
a matter of other strange avatars well then whether you're in school or in work
they're probably using a tool called animes by facerig this tool will replace your face
with an avatar of your choice either that that you can create yourself or those that are available
directly from the animes or rig store i'm going to show you how to do this with cisco webex
maze is available on steam and is the successor to the very successful face
rig program which also replaced your face with that of a comedy or animated avatar
face rig is free to use and as a result of which you can get in there straight away if
you are a face rig owner then there is currently a discount that will be available to animes users
off subscription services so inject a little bit of fun into your meetings or your distance
learning if you're in school or having distance learning classes so animes by face
rig can do this with a multitude of uh meeting programs such as microsoft teams google meet
cisco webex cisco webex teams the list goes on blue jeans um but how do you do it so
with animes you get a number of avatars some avatars you have to pay for some avatars come free
so how do you configure your avatar with size on the screen props and things like that where
you can inject a little bit of fun into your meetings so at the beginning what we said
was we would set our avatar for donald trump donald trump is a paid avatar for 399 coins
and you can buy coins by clicking on that item there's obviously a subscription as well you
can buy coin packs and there's a subscription and dollar amount there as well to supercharge
your experience but enough of that i've already bought the donald trump avatar there it is we're
going to select that you click on confirm and then animate loads that character in
here it comes and there he is um a caricature or avatar of donald trump and certainly no disrespect
is made uh or intended so here we go uh we've confirmed that let's close that down we can see
that my face is being tracked with the dots around my jawline around my mouth my nose and my eyes
as well so that's exactly what the computer is seeing if for any reason you're having
problems and the avatar is not operating as normal click on calibrate or press ctrl
and c clicking on calibrate brings up this screen again it's picking up the
dots around my facial features look directly at your webcam or ios device click calibrate
neutral expression good calibration and your avatar should resolve any issues that it has now
with your mouse if using this on a pc you can use the mouse wheel to enlarge
or shrink your avatar okay now you can also hold the shift key
down and move around a background if it's an animated background
holding the control key down you can rotate your avatar as well there we have the back
of the avatar's head let me scroll it up make it larger but not too large
a bit of a scary thought let's move it that's a decent size i think and there's our avatar to the
side and you can rotate it a little bit more you can also move him uh by right clicking the mouse
and holding the control key down to different sides of the screen okay great so let's put a prop
on our avatar's head there we go we've got our prop click on props and there's a range of props
that the face rig and animes team have included so you know you could have um for example a jester's
hat you could have a crown a cowboy hat uh even a beer hat as well now if these don't fit your
avatar just right then select one perhaps that that might well do there's a winged helmet uh that
doesn't really fit our avatar well but hey the headphones actually do so selecting the headphones
there we go uh what we want to do is now size them perfectly for our avatar
so there's our avatar right clicking on advanced you can move them around different positioning
if they're not quite right you know on the model again you can do the sizing as well
move them backwards or forwards along the x-axis that might fit a little bit better
and not detract really from what you want which is basically your avatar's mouth
okay so that basically was how to change your avatar put a prop on its head and make yourself
look like donald trump in a meeting but how do you get this into a meeting program of choice
well i'll show you it's all about this button at the bottom here called broadcast last button
will allow you to send this image to a meeting package of choice like google meet for example
zoom you know the list goes on cisco webex blue jeans microsoft teams the broadcast function
think of it this way you have your webcam you have your meeting application
anime sits in the middle so the fix so we have to have the input as we can see here
as you can see my real life input on the left hand side of the screen will then go into animes then
get translated to the avatar of choice in this case we've got um a caricature of of a gentleman
and then that will then get sent to the meeting program as a result then you have
to press the broadcast button once you start broadcasting you get a countdown of 90 minutes
there you go and then that will then go into your meeting application of choice a lot of
people forget this step and it's imperative to be broadcasting else you'll get a black screen
in your meeting application hi so welcome to cisco webex we're actually in the tool now you can see
my very busy backdrop behind me and you can see my ugly face on the screen anyway we're gonna
talk about getting animes into cisco webex now so as you can see i've got my uh video feed on what
i'm gonna do um is i'm gonna stop the video feed just temporarily i'm then going to launch animes
that's going to launch and once it has launched
go on animes we can see my webcam feed
has not been used by anybody else it's being used by animes and we've got our avatar in
front so we're currently got bruce chompster with a lovely background so what we're gonna
do we're gonna change avatars um let's go to all avatars to see what avatars we've got
um it's all the you know the the quintessential ones i fancy something a bit different
i think what we'll do is we will go with the hot dog why not let's confirm the hot dog
so here's our hot dog underwater you may want to do a calibration click on calibrate
neutral expression at the webcam click calibrate
good calibration and then your avatar will well start animating itself as per your facial
expressions don't forget animations down here as well uh again you can wave uh hit w as well
look you know all these different animations you have that you can use to embellish your meeting
experience right so all that is set up okay let's change the background put us in an office confirm
right how cool is this and again using the control key we can move our hotdog down make
him a bit bigger turn him to the side slightly and also put a prop on him so let's put some i
don't know glasses on him okay they turn up quite small let's enlarge them there you go you may be
cool but are you hot dog with a pair of glasses cool gotta wonder haven't you okay let's save that
so what we're gonna do now is we're gonna get that video feed and our avatar into cisco cisco webex
right so there we go let's just move him around there it is brilliant with that we're going to
hit the broadcast button right by there so we're now broadcasting now if you think about how this
happens right how this happens is that the feed comes in like i've mentioned from the webcam
into animate and from there you can do things like do recordings and you can do screenshots
but we want to send it to cisco cisco webex so we're broadcasting that right
that will then send it to a virtual camera which we're going to select in cisco webex
so there you go great stuff um we're broadcasting we're ready to go into the cisco webex meeting
we're not going to start the video straight away because that sets the wrong input we're going
to click the down arrow we're going to select anime's virtual camera select and then start video
and there you have it we're gonna start our meeting we're starting our meeting
and there you are i am meeting everybody as a hot dog in an office on cisco webex
how cool is that um if you want to use your animations obviously you can't use
your animations because if you type say q w or e like that while you've got the cisco webex
application in the forefront it's not going to do anything doesn't know what you're doing okay
you have to have your animes application perhaps in a scaled window but at the forefront
and then hit your animation so i'm hitting q w and e and as i do that it's manipulating
the avatar in the meeting how cool is that uh changing avatars as well takes a little while
we're gonna click on avatars um let's move that around let's go to donald trump confirm that
enemies will lose that avatar and there's donald trump there which you can manipulate
uh again with uh your animations right cool stuff right so that's how to change avatars how
to get the feed into cisco webex um you can do a calibrations as well and to use the animations and
to change the background that's what we've covered but say you have a problem for any time if you
have a black screen in cisco webex i suggest you make sure you are broadcasting i also suggest that
you check your video feed at the bottom of the screen for for video options and make sure you've
got anime's virtual camera selected now here we go we can also change the virtual backgrounds as well
to some that have been brought in by cisco of course all the major tools do that now
google microsoft cisco they all do virtual backgrounds there you go we can apply a beach
it might work don't forget we are transmitting a background as well um from anime and you can see
it's a bit of frame loss uh as we're doing it to try and sort of like um improve that
i would go to backgrounds and perhaps just put a green screen background on in animes
that might help things out a little bit see we get a few more frames a little bit of a green glow
around donald's head but there you go uh that's how to use some virtual backgrounds with it as
well if you prefer to use the virtual backgrounds that are in cisco webex and not use the ones in
animes but how do you stop what you're doing you may have people um who are not as forward
thinking and as fun as you um say in class or at work or perhaps it's just not appropriate
to have um a particular avatar on the screen so what you do is this first off stop your
video okay you can still carry on talking you can still uh contribute to the class or your meeting
pop into animes stop broadcasting now stop broadcasting you hit the little cross by here
right so that's it you're not broadcasting anymore you can see the webcam is still working
what i then do and it's a proven method is i close animes down that stops any confusion
um of say cisco saying oh well the webcam feeds being used by another tool i can't start it
close that down that's animes closed back into cisco webex select your webcam now my webcam on
this computer is the microsoft live cam it'll be different on yours it might be your your laptop's
webcam or what have you select that and then start your video and there you are you're back and you
can see i've still got my virtual background on and again you can then change all those settings
different backgrounds you might have company backgrounds or school backgrounds or just prefer
to blur your background so that was it that's what we've covered how to put anime's feed
in to cisco webex and how to take it off and a little bit of troubleshooting as well remember
if you see a black screen then you might check your feeds and make sure you are broadcasting
well i hope you've enjoyed this video on how to get animes working with cisco webex
i've enjoyed making it please stay safe um like and subscribe if you haven't
already done so there's plenty of animes and facebook videos on the channel and how to use
this software with other tools of choice like microsoft teams google meet um zoom and others
and also how to look around the interface of animes thanks for watching see you soon
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