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Animated Faces For For Robot Characters
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I've been thinking about designs for a robot, the kind with animated faces on flat panels. I'd like to be able to call up animations I create like seamless avis or mov.s (without a frame) to display animations I create. Or maybe they are GIFs? But these animations should be able to be called by scripts, maybe even reactive to voice synthesis etc. or eyes that follow you using the camera?!
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Sorry will, I don’t really understand what’s being asked. I kind of thought you wanted an animated button in the interface builder? But then there’s a lot of stuff mentioned, like voice synthesis and eyes that follow the camera?
Any detail that specifies what you’re looking for would be useful to better understand.
I think it's about having a face of your robot on the screen (interface builder) and be able to calll animations that react to sound or camera or can be called by script
LIke this? https://synthiam.com/Support/Skills/User-Interface/Full-Screen-Video-Player?id=20421
Hey great idea DJ, wonder if I can get cool video effect happening on my Tablet with mobile builder and mount it on my Cylon back pack while he vacuums? Gonna try it LOL!
Sorry guys just got back from my mom's 80th BD so I didn't see responses. I'm going to explore the video player skill to see if that might fill the need.
Proteusy had the correct guess at what I was asking for. This would be for a robot with an onboard computer and touch screen. My thoughts would be the interface builder or a plug-in that displays these animations on top of the ARC controls (like interface builder does). It could be controlled by scripts for different animations like eyes animation tracking to the movement (see link below hackster)...simply load animations that anyone could make in any adobe program like illustrator or photoshop. If the robot is sad it plays sad face animation, if the robot is happy the screen plays smiles animation, etc.. Easy to create animations and save them out as a GIF, or .mov and have it called up with command control? Just throwing out ideas of how to accomplish this. Every robot in asia has these animated faces..so must be a way to do it.
Like this robot face:
And this example for animation tracking :
https://www.hackster.io/SeeedStudio/display-robot-face-using-the-wio-terminal-68f87a
Whoa Wil,that looks fantastic!
@robo rad...this is another crowd-funded robot (failed?) called Buddy. Not my design.
That is really a cute bot, I wonder why it failed? Seems it could have an affordable price and win over many people like in hospitals or elderly care.