CrazyTalk for Skype
Would you like to animate your Skype profile? Reallusion has launched CrazyTalk for Skype which enables messaging with facial expressions and character animation. Thus they say making your Skype conversation more amusing and creative. Your friends will have to get CrazyTalk for Skype too to play. It's a free download to get started.
CrazyTalk for Skype is a dynamic animated messaging tool featuring customizable emotive facial animation allowing you to create Skype characters from any photo! It is much more fun than conventional video chatting. Animate Skype with loads of content you can download from the web or create yourself with CrazyTalk Avatar Editor. Share them with your friends whenever you like, using whatever photo you like, animated however you like – to become the face of whoever or whatever you want to be! Reallusion
Overall, this is another smart piece of piggyback marketing on Skype. It creates new value for Skypers interested in having some fun while introducing the "Skype" community to the oppportunities and benefits in animation. To create your own photo animations you will have to trial or purchase CrazyTalk Messenger. More than a few Skypers should know how to use it and get others laughing. Reallusion is offering a "free" CrazyTalk Messenger so you can animate your own photo's in a promotion they are running. Share with your friends and win.
I know some of my readers will ask why would you do this? I really don't have the time. However I can see an animated character taking a voice mail, or providing some other form of info as just a beginning. For the most part the solutions will just be more fun than that. When Skype adds video (real soon) then even more opportunities for sending animated movies may appear.
Reallusion has effectively created an avatar-like program for Skype that goes beyond what's offered on MSN and Yahoo. I'm sure their technology could be worked into anyone of these messenger programs and perhaps that is what they hope to achieve. For the moment Skype's API wins again in leading the way.


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its good to talk on skype crazytalk
Posted by: femiolajide | November 30, 2005 03:56 AM