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Idle Motions

An idle motion is a motion that simulates different actor motions and moods while the actor is, or is not talking or listening. With the idle motion, the actor can automatically move so that it looks more vivid rather than having a still cardboard with a human image on it. It creates life-like base movements even before you start animating or lip syncing your custom actor.

ClosedDefault Idle Motion
  1. Create a new actor or apply an actor from the library.
  2. Playback the project. The actor will start to move without any voice.
    3. Playback to observe the default idle motion.
ClosedUsing Idle Motion from Library

Because the default idle motion is mild and neutral; you are able to change to another idle motion from the library to show the true mood of the actor.

  1. Create a new actor or apply an actor from the library.

  2. In the Content Manager, switch to the Animation tab >> Idle Motion library. There are many templates of idle motion ready for use.

  3. Double click on the desired template to change the idle motion of the actor.

  4. Playback the project.
    5. Playback to observe the result of the applied idle motion.
ClosedLips-Sync with Idle Motion

In CrazyTalk, each time you apply a voice for the actor, the voice causes the actor to move (also known as Auto Motion mechanism). However, if you only need the the idle motion instead of the auto motion, then you can apply voice in Lips-Sync only mode.

  1. Create a new actor or apply an actor from the library.
  2. Add voice to the actor in Lips-Sync only mode.

    The actor utters with only mouth shapes and default idle motion.
    3. Actor talks with default idle motion.