Putting Lips on Gnarls' Barkley's Heart
"We could not find any other technology that was able to achieve the level of exacting perfection I was asking for on this video. The lips had to move like real human lips. In the end, not only did Image Metrics deliver lip animation that was a completely believable replica of Cee-Lo’s, but they did so within a very short turn around."
Image Metrics has projected life onto a photo-real CG heart that sings about its loss of love in Gnarls Barkley’s latest video, “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul,” from the recently released album, The Odd Couple. Radical Media, producers of the video, turned to Image Metrics because its unique facial animation solution was the only one able to exactly capture lead singer Cee-Lo’s lips for translation onto the digital heart. Using their proprietary facial animation technology, Image Metrics produced 15 shots of facial animation on Cee-Lo's singing lips.
The music video has been nominated for two coveted awards: a Visual Effect Scoeity award and a Grammy for Chris Milk.
