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Hi Gigi, Perhaps you should open a line of dialog with Mike White. I think he might have some insight into this type of technology. Lee

>>>I'm looking for a IPAS routine to do character animation as easy as possible. Actually, I saw a booth at Siggraph last week a character animation program using direct audio input (the guy was speaking into a microphone and the character moves its facial features according to what and how the guy was speaking). I would like to know if there is an IPAS for 3DS that would be able to do something similar.<<< Gigi, PMJI, but have you looked at Humanoid: Human Animation Designer for 3DS? There is more detailed info and sample images in the ANVENA – New Anim Vendor section library. Just search it with the keyword CRESTLINE and all the relevant files will come up. Humanoid comes with a series of morph targets for animating facial expressions, including phonetics of speech. It doesn't support direct audio input, like the demo you may have seen. But I've seen some users sync sound to them quite successfully. The kit comes with four articulated figures a man, woman, child and strongman, walking and running motions for each, and morphable hand gestures. It's designed to make human animation just about as easy as possible in 3DS, and it's quite affordable. If you have any questions. I'll be happy to elaborate,… but do take a look at the images in ANVENA, they should give you an excellent idea what the models can do. -Tim Wilson, Crestline Software