ANIFY

Anify is a program to 2d animate a teacher into an animated character in an online meet. This could also be used in any online meet to bring fun into their environment

Demo

Features

• Currently developed program to animate the person into Shinchan
• Sensitive to blinking eye, opening mouth, moving hands, legs, body and head.
• Mimic function is used to change the pitch of the voice, to bring in cartoonic voices, which in turn engages student

Note : This is a basic animation software. It isn't fully functional and has many distortion.

Recommended to not to move while using program to smooth animation.

Steps to run the program

• Clone the repository
• Install the required libraries
• Turn on the webcam
• Run the main.py
• Open the final.svg in a live server(Eg. browser). Reload the page continously to see seamless animation
• Uncomment the below line in main.py to add the voice effect. # Thread(target = mimic).start() It is recommended to use the mimic function in noise less environment for better experience.

Inspired by

• https://github.com/yemount/pose-animator

Acknowledgement

• Pitch shift

Python Libraries

Anify uses a different open source and in built libraries :

• opencv (To get video input from webcam)
• mediapipe (To get the facial and body landmark coordinates)
• numpy
• xml.dom.minidom (To manipulate the SVG image)
• pyaudio (To change teh pitch of the voice)

Installation

Clone the project and install necessary packages with the below code (Windows)

  pip install -r requirements.txt

Run main.py file

  python main.py 

Contributed By

• Kasinath J
• Sorna Sarathi N
• Rohith N M

License

MIT