Pinokio 3D - Digital Puppeteer

Game Engine Finished Games
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This is not a game, but a digital puppeteer. It is made completly in Blender and Gimp and uses the Blender Game Engine in scene.

I’m sorry it is in spanish (and subtitled in spanish too), but you will understand.
I hope you enjoy it!

Pinokio 3D is the first “Virtual Clown” (of the world?). It is a digital puppeteer, that acts in scene and interacts with the audience, through a projection on a screenwall. Its movements are driven and its voice is being dubbed by an artist (Mario Mey www.mariomey.com.ar) behind the courtain.

Its premiere was in the 14ª Circus, Clowns and Street Shows Argentine Conference (www.convencionargentina.com) and, in the next week, it was at the 2ª Argentine Blender Conference (free software used for the production of the puppeteer), called Che!Blender (www.cheblender.org).

It was completly made with Blender 2.5 and GIMP, under Ubuntu. When it acts, It uses Blender Game Engine (BGE), keyboard, joystick and a Korg KP3 as voice filter.

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wow thats great but how do you make its movement be driven by voice that sounds interesting for movie projects.

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Thanks! The mouth movements aren’t driven by voice. It’s an action launched by a joystick button that I press any time I talk. It has four different mouth talking actions: normal, sad, angry and “asking”. The same four for the idle face actions.