Thread: (Beta) Jack-o Lantern Puppet

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Hey All, I just started working on my digital puppet(beta) for my singing pumpkin.
I would like comments and effect suggestions on it if anyone is willing to test it out.
Once Im happy with it, I put the final version on here for everyone to use!

This is to be used with a projector, for a realistic talking jack-o-lantern pumpkin.

Click on the pumpkin to trigger it,
then press the <enter> key for mouth movement.

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1247080160

Looks good! What's it for?

Its a basic version of a digital puppet that when projected, can make a realistic talking or singing pumpkin.

WOW..That is freaking awesome.
Will it eventually be responsive to sound?
It looks great. When will it be done and you start taking orders?

Originally Posted by PlainfieldDan

WOW..That is freaking awesome.
Will it eventually be responsive to sound?
It looks great. When will it be done and you start taking orders?

yeah, the final version will hopefully have mic input as well as a record and play button. fingers crossed! I was originally thinking free, but I might sell it for a couple of dollars, just to get out of my over-budgeting issues, and time spent creating it. Glad you like it!

I plan on projecting it onto a "lead-singer" pumpkin with flaming hair; while the other band members (pumpkins) bang their head to the music. It's just an idea right now. But I think it would look really cool. Another Idea I had was to have the talking pumpkin float as it sings.

Nice Flash word. I like the the glow filter - really adds to the effect.

I'd love to know how you make the flash piece responsive to sound. Would you imbed a WAV file onto the main timeline? Is there some sort of actionscript linkage or runtime sharing?

Extremely curious.

thanks! I'll probably increase the glow effect a little more! It does add alot! I might even make it flicker to add to the realism.

I plan to make the mouth move be mic input as well; using action script code. I haven't yet figured out how to make it respond to .wav and mp3 files yet.

Im actually running behind on this, so if you have any flash experience, I wouldn't mind a 2 person callabaration. It would greatly speed up the design of the software.

For songs like GGG and others; hopefully I will have a "record" button that will record the song and mouth movements and then play the "scene" at the push of a key stroke.

This would be so neat to project from a tree or a second story window onto one of those giant lawn bag pumpkins and then have it sing to "This Is Halloween" or "The Headless Horseman" or something similar. Truly awesome! Let us know when it's available! I would use it with the recorded performance option and play it back in a continuous loop.

Hey, that's pretty cool! I haven't done anything in Flash for a lonnng time. But I did screw around with Processing more recently, and I'm pretty sure you could do the audio sync (.wav, .mp3) in that. Either Processing or Pure Data (PD). Still not entirely sure how those two play together.

Maybe this is a little too early in the process, but the only thing I might add is that the lip syncing might be a little better if the filter were faster on the attack of the syllable, and slower on the decay. (i.e.: quicker action when pressing [Enter])

Just a thought... Looks cool!
- Hook

I just had another idea for using this prop! I could see it with a static life-size headless horseman prop (perhaps a redressed Gemmy). Have him holding a real pumpkin in his hand and project a performance of the Jack-o-Lantern singing the old "Headless Horseman" song from the Disney classic. That would be so neat!