if you've been having meetings or people in your class with distance learning have they been
showing up as penguins or bears or donald trump or foxes well if so then they've probably been using
a tool called animes by facerig animes is the next generation of facerig software that can replace
your video image with that of a comedy avatar no more boring meetings no more boring classes
with animes by face rig i'm going to show you how you can use this software with microsoft teams
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 anime's users
off subscription services so inject a little bit of fun into your meetings or
your distance learning if you're in school or in 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 uh 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 control 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 then we have the back
of the avatar's head you scroll it up make it larger but not too large
a bit of a scary thought let's move it to 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 uh a jester's hat
uh 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 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 so we've swapped back over to animes now we're making sure our feed
is all working you can see the microsoft live cam which is the webcam that i've got from my computer
is tracking my face and that the avatar and we've got bruce chompster there he is good old
bruce is tracking me quite nicely so we're just gonna move him up the screen let's give a smile
it's a terrible smile in it uh right so there we are what we're going to do is is that where from
this screen we're going to start broadcasting right there it is there's the broadcast button
we're going to hit broadcast a lot of people forget to do this
now we've got to remember is is that your webcam in which case my microsoft live camera you can see
on the screen is taking that signal putting it into animates and animators doing this with it
and from here we can record and take screenshots and all the rest of it from this middle bar here
however we want to send this into our meeting tool of choice in which case this is microsoft teams
so what we have to do is hit the broadcast button there you go and my broadcast timer starts
counting down from 90 minutes that's what i have with my current subscription status with animes
so we are broadcasting from here to a tool of choice which is microsoft teams
so the first thing we're going to do is not start a meeting you're going to click on our
user profile at the top they might have a picture there or something i've got the standard default
uh item from microsoft we're going to click on that down to the settings option and we're going
to configure microsoft teams to recognize the feed from animes for that we need to go to devices
and you can see my camera feed is set to my microsoft life camera well that's not what i
want because you'll be seeing me wouldn't you right so we don't want that at all so we're
going to hit that down there and select anime's virtual camera that's what we want there you go
and because we're already broadcasting from animes you can see the preview has happened
straight away and there's the preview you can see good old bruce that's all set we're now
going to start a meeting there you go there's the meeting and turn that webcam on and there you go
uh we can click on join before you click on join you can also do things around the backgrounds
uh hit a different background um or you can use the ones from animes as well now what i've found
with is if you're in animes like that you hit backgrounds and you hit the green screen confirm
if you want to use any of the backgrounds from microsoft teams
they'll be slightly better i mean slightly better i would just go with the backgrounds
you can load into animes they work a hell of a lot better with different light
if you're going to use this using um microsoft teams backgrounds without animes work perfectly
well with this there's too much going on you can have a bit of lag you're not gonna like it
go back to the our our seascape for bruce let's move a minute right let's add some props
on bruce as well let's have a nice headset there he is is his headset we'll save that
pop back into microsoft teams and there is bruce we're going to join now we've joined our meeting
um our webcam is on we're connecting into the meeting room and there is bruce on the screen
all ready to impress either your classmates or other people in work or just your friends
and that is how we use animes and microsoft teams now there's something to mention about here right
um first off don't forget your animations right you've got animations you've got all
the animation keys you can pick up on let's move that there so you can see it q you know you can
wave and then he's got the shrug we've got another animation there look where you say hey what me
um and another wave you can use these all right but you've got to use them with the animes screen
at the forefront if you do it with teams here and press q nothing do it with um
anime screen open and press q then you'll be able to manipulate the avatar
okay so that's something to it something very important always remember if you're having
problems not seeing anything here right make sure you've got broadcast selected right there so what
do you do if you want to go back to your normal webcam okay might be a time where your teachers
told you off or it's just not appropriate to be using an avatar like this well this is how i do
it right and it's been foolproof up to now first thing you do into animes right stop broadcasting
so we click the stop broadcasting button which is here right let's expand that so you can see
it right next there okay there you are we've stopped broadcasting then i close down animes
then i turn off my camera then i go to more actions device settings and with nothing else
using my webcam i change the camera from anime's virtual camera to the webcam of my computer which
is the microsoft life cam i then start my meeting i'll start my camera back my meeting
and there i am so what we discussed in this video we've discussed how to change your avatars how to
add a prop to our avatar we've also talked about broadcasting and how animes works by getting the
information from the webcam into animes where you can record take screenshots what have you
and then we're going to broadcast it into our tool of choice which in this case is microsoft teams in
microsoft teams you went in there and we changed um the video device to as you can see there again
the anime's virtual camera okay and then we turned our camera on and we were whatever avatar we chose
whether it was donald trump whether that was uh bruce chumpster was the fox whatever avatar you
want let's just get rid of that um so we discussed that if you have a black screen
in any one of those sections and it's i think being transmitted and you've had it working before
then make sure you've hit that broadcast button we also discussed on how to get things back to normal
as you can see now with my busy workspace here i am in my office uh we then you know
turned the camera off in teams we stopped broadcasting we closed animes down we changed
the feed back to the webcam for my computer and we started the camera up again and it all worked and
that's how you use animes with microsoft teams to inject a little bit of fun into your meetings hope
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