Animation

General

Color

Skin color pallete

Skin colors

European

Example 1 from Anime CGing Tutorial.

  • base: #ecc4b8
  • shadow: #c78d7d
  • highlight: #f8e9e6

2D animation

Adobe After Effects is mainly described in this page.

  • How to show that a camera moves on one image
    • Scale in/out the image
    • Change the position of the image
  • How to organize assets

Other resources

MotionIsland: After Effects Text Animation Presets Preview Gallery

We can see a lot of previews of the presets of text animation in this one page simultaneously. It's really helpful to check how each text preset animates.

3D animation

Character modeling

  • VRoid Studio is the tool to create a 3D data of the avator very easily.
    • There are some free models in VRoid Hub, but they cannot be imported into VRoid Studio.

Reference

Motion Capture

Deepmotion

  • Deepmotion can change a video file into a motion capture data (bvh).

Sound effects

There are some web sites to download sound effects freely. Some of them may be under licenses like Creative Commons.

Text to Speech

Web services

Free

  1. https://voicemaker.in/: 200 characters at most. There are some features like emphathize something or pitch.
    • Are voices from Amazon Polly?
  2. TTSMP3: 3,000 characters limit
    • Are voices from Amazon Polly?
  3. NaturalReader: For public use, it's not free
  4. fromtexttospeech
  5. textfromtospeech
    • It looks like it uses Windows text-to-speech for voices

Paid

  1. LOVO
  2. Play.ht
    • There are types of Voices like Chat or Cheer
  3. Amazon Polly
    • $4 per 1 million characterrs. Are voices from Amazon Polly's Standard?

Others

Windows has Text to Speech feature. See this support page of Microsoft for more details.

Voice changer

Voice changers might be helpful to change voices and record voices for animations.

The software that can change both of pitch and formant is better to change a human's voice than others.

  • Koigoe
    • Pitch and formant can be changed manually
    • Japanese language has to be installed in Windows
  • Rovee
    • This is a VST plugin and this may need to use a VST Host application. I couldn't use some applications for this plugin probably because this plugin is old.
  • Gachikoe! Core
  • バ美声

There are some articles to introduce the above voice changers. For example,

There are tons of other voice changers, too. But it was hard to change a voice because most of them supports only changing a pitch and not formant, and a voice becomes just like a robot.

There are some articles or videos to introduce some voice changers, for example,

For VST plugins, there are other plugins so that we can use to get some effects, like a noise reduction.