Sarah Palin is a lightning rod of media attention. Her endurance in mass media has been amazing. When I came across this cool new movie making animation software program by Xtranormal called Text to Movie and her pre-animated avatar, I couldn’t resist using her image to help push my book on Larry King.
Although this program is limited a bit by its computerized voice and actions, the possibilities of what can be done with it, even in its current state, are compelling.
I wrote this script, directed it and uploaded it in a matter of minutes. Getting the timing as right as possible and getting the voices to say what I wanted, took a couple hours, but viola. Moments after posting, it had garnered over a hundred views and hopefully will keep spreading.
This technology holds huge promise for writers and directors: sharing story ideas, jokes, writing short scenes and even creating an entire web series. As the technology and text to speech capacity improves, I can imagine a lot from this program. Tell me what you think.
TRL
February 19th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Thanks for sharing this. This is very useful. I enjoy reading your blog, T.R. Great insights.
–Mary
February 19th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Glad to hear it. Thanks for reading the blog. Let me know what kind of ideas you have for the program.
TRL