you ever been in a meeting with a baby penguin perhaps you have if you have then the people
you've been in a meeting with have been using a tool called animes by face rig
animes by face rig is the natural successor to face rig and as a result of which you can
change your face into a variety of avatars all whilst using the benefits of microsoft teams
going to www www.animes.us you can see the official animes by face rig site now this
site will give you all the information on where to get it how to get it and what it's compatible with
you can see at the top it's also got an iphone app an editor and there's documentation there
if you want to become an animes artist also you can get this on steam for pc
now what can it do as you can see we've got a demonstration running on the web page in front
of us and it's quite good to have a look at that and have a listen and see what's going on but
typically you get the idea you replace your face with an avatar let's check it out on steam here we
are on steam and here's the steam page now at the moment there's a release date of it coming soon
currently got a beta mode of this and the software works fine and the developer of holotech studios
that created face rig and animes has worked on this now a few changes to this model um
typically these changes are is that it's as a free service and there's a subscription service
okay so there's no getting away with that um and you can also buy coins for different avatars
i am in the anime software quite a different and streamlined interface
to what we've had before in facerig where it was very busy
what you can see straight away is at the top we've got a menu screen for animes where you
can select avatars props backgrounds animations and check your settings you can also see a picture
with my face and my real self in my very busy workshop background and you can see the dots
that are tracking my face around here nothing's on my face it's doing this all by itself with
the power of the webcam as open my mouth the shark opens its mouth because it's tracking my face with
the eyebrows as well and you can see your avatar also moves so again i think this is working better
than what face rig was seems to be more dark is tracking more points and my webcam is a good
i'd say two feet away from my face so you can see it is tracking quite well for what we're doing
okay so that's one thing we've discussed the dots and what i actually look like on the screen which
is great um you can move this around should you want to again you can select your feed as well
if you've got other feeds again i've got a stream obs virtual webcam um as well and we'll see about
in future videos getting this working with stream obs right so import you can import an
avatar you can subscribe for a limited import now don't know where you come down on subscriptions
this is the way face rig and animes are going with subscriptions that's up to them purpose of
this video is looking at animes and getting it to work with the video conferencing tool of choice
okay so here we go uh scrolling down you can see all our avatars down here right we've uh
see i've got a shark who's holding a little squid what is different um in regards to
face rig is you can put animations and key them
right if you see this but this bar down here we've got animations click on that that brings
up the animations bar pressing q my shark waves pressing w i don't actually know what he did then
snorted um what else he do press e he points it himself see if we can move these around we should
be able to yes we can it's a good interface it's very clean very simple probably made with mobile
in mind pressing e points to itself uh pressing r waves there you go so you've got full animations
there let's look at another avatar so there you go we'll have him able gene whoever misses
there it is nice use of that for a hat and a bit of hair let's press q out comes a hand pressing w
does this sort of motion which is good um we've got the weaving of the finger and we've got uh
right okay so we've got our avatar let's push back to the the shark i quite like the shark
now all these avatars do tend to use a credit system and a subscription system
so um if you've got a popular advertise you can see there's a donald trump one there
and to unlock that you need 399 tokens well i've used all the 1500 tokens up that i had
on the avatars that i've got some came for free it's a shame they don't import
the face rig avatars yet but they might do as this is still in beta let's talk about um
backgrounds so we've typically got a gray background we can choose from backgrounds
in this panel you can import a background and let's import something in i think from
a bit of battlestar galactica let's do a screenshot
just for demonstration purposes there you go load in a background
look and it works really well with the background that i've put in you can also
use green screen confirm that for even better editing in your software application of choice
and i tend to use this um typically when i'm using things like microsoft teams or something like that
as well but we're talking about google meet here so what i'm going to do i'm going to pick
something that looks pretty much um fishy that's about as fishy as we i think we can possibly get
we'll go for the pool and that's our background changed i think it works really well now you can
also record within animes as well by hitting the record button and that will then record your video
which you can then play back as you can see the frame rate seems to be jerking quite a bit i'm not
entirely sure what all that's about but we'll test it out later so we'll press stop after that eight
to nine seconds of video um and then you can also put props on as well let's save this recording
say save as um we'll put it in battlestar galactic and we'll just say um animes test
or should i say animes test
okay i'll just put it in here
select folder um say new folder test in there we're done and it's saved in that one particular
location as an mpeg and we'll go back and look at that in a minute so we talked about animations
right we've talked about avatars we've talked about backgrounds
talk about recording take a screenshot
and that's also going to be very good as well imagine taking a screenshot
like that again save it in your location of choice um look at your background
confirm a green screen background for example and then do a big cheesy grin
that'll be really good and easy for editing to cut out and put in any picture you've got
save that again
right so that's done saves the png brilliant um what's next we talk
about animations we talk about backgrounds talk about avatars let's talk about props okay props
took a bit of messing about to handle in face rig
i can honestly say within animes they're better so if you want a hat on your shark there it is
if i put my head down you can see the hat has gone right on there uh you can make the hat bigger if
you want to you can change the colors you know on certain items uh put some headphones on
however they work now they're quite small so let's expand them and there's a shark
wearing a set of headphones now that's got to be worth a screenshot isn't it really
right all the fun you can have with this right okay so we've done all that we've talked about
backgrounds animations there's a shop as well put the shop look you can buy more tokens
import your creations look at your subscriptions how much you want a month for free you can do this
for a 45 minute session which kind of marries up with what you get with currently the free version
of zoom again you've got google meet there's no limit at the moment on what you can do in regards
to the length of meetings and you can import it into the packages as well and you can see you've
got different options if you subscribe subscribe to 99 pound 99 a year uh unlimited virtual webcam
not just 45 minute sessions you've got import your avatars which you can across the board
uh import avatars for the free version it'll cost you 99 cents to import them but unlimited for you
at the paid remove watermarks use your iphone as your face tracker export videos and mp4 we've
seen that works uh stream 60 frames per second and pro streamer commercial rights if you want to make
a lot of money out of it and there's some rights there as well which is not really going to go into
okay so that was what it was all about how much are the coin packs well let's have a look at that
shop coin packs 4.99 2 000 gets is for 9.99 and 6 000 for 19.99 as you can see i've burnt through
mine already now i can zoom in for my creation with the mouse wheel all right i'm zooming in
i'm zooming out okay so that's quite a good feature so here we are in a typical microsoft
teams interface whether it's teams in the workplace or microsoft teams for education
what you can do is you can click on the top icon down to settings
check your devices and make sure your devices are all set up if your webcam is displaying
quickly you'll see yourself in the little window make sure all your headphones and
your speakers are set correctly once that's done what you can do is is you can start a meeting
okay and you can change your meeting we're going to call this
an anime animes demo okay now we're not going to join now just yet right but what we will do
is um we'll start up enemies and we'll do that from steam
so animate is going to load up as i mentioned it is the
official successor to face rig and here you do you can see me on screen so typically this is
what we've got you can see and we'll make this screen a bit large we don't need to see the
team's interface just yet you can see my face is being contoured with little dots my mouth
my eyebrows and whatnot okay so we know
that side of things is working right okay we're gonna hit the broadcast button
we're broadcasting to a virtual camera then what we do we minimize this we go into our
teams interface whether that's teams for education or normal teams into custom setup we change our
camera either to animes or you might see it as listed as composite device click composite device
turn your camera on and there you are that is animes communicating directly to microsoft teams
or microsoft teams for education and displaying your avatar and you can join your meeting
straight away it's connecting
and then you'll be able to see your cat in all of its glory
and there you have it
as easy as that uh typically moving back
from uh anime's feed into a normal feed where you see your face so you've had your fun
uh perhaps you've been told off in class or you know you've got some non-tolerant um colleagues
that don't like the hilarity of animes by face rig then typically what i tend to do
is turn off the camera so that cancels the feed go into animes stop broadcasting close down animes
now you can either leave the meeting all right or you can apply to go to device settings
select your camera
and then if you're lucky start the feed and then you come back now i say that if you're lucky
some applications like zoom google meet and webex they haven't got that switch over of the video
feed quite right so i do say it is temperamental it's not really the fault of animes it's more
fault of the collaboration software like meat like zoom like webex that are doing this i have found
it to consistently work with microsoft teams and there's been no problems there at all whatsoever
so that was how to get animes to work with microsoft teams or microsoft teams for education
for a little bit of hilarity hope you found the video useful let me know what avatars that you
join your meetings with and what sort of response you got like and subscribe if you haven't done so
let me know how it goes have fun take care be safe
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