CGTalk - xpresso typewriter?

Linds

01-22-2008, 01:57 AM

Here's a question for all the hardcore scripters and coders out there.
I'm planing a short promo film for an old friend who's just got his first novel published. (A rash promise I made a long time ago that has come back to haunt me.)

THe sequence involves a dialogue between the two principle charecters, and I was thinking of animationg it as a conversation between two typewiters.

So here's my question. Given a detailed and acurate model of a typewriter, and a text file of a section of dialogue, would it be possible to build an xpresso script that would read the text, and type out the words, with all that that involves - the keys depressing, the type-arms swinging up to strike the paper, the letters printing onto the paper, and the carriage and rollors moving appropriately etc.

Do you think this would be possible, or would I be better off keyframing traditionally?

Thanks for any advice

Cheers

Linds

Srek

01-22-2008, 07:16 AM

Possible? Yes. Advisable? I don't think so.
Only if you have several pages of text you need to handle this way and a VERY good understanding of COFFEE, Xpresso and TP i would try to create an automatism for this.
Personaly i (maybe) would do it for the fun of it, but if it were for a real project i would ask my father for his old typewriter and get my DV camera out of the attic ;)

Cheers
Björn

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