In the Neck of Time

<p>Numerous studies over the past decade have investigated to making human animation as realistic as possible, especially facial animation. Let’s consider facial animation for human speech. Animating a face, to match up to a speech, requires a lot of effort. Most of the process has now been automated to make it easier for the artist to create facial animation along with lip sync based on a speech provided by the user. While these systems concentrate on the mouth and tongue, where articulation of speech takes place, very little effort has gone to understand and to recreate the exact motion of the neck during speech. The neck plays an important role in voice production and hence it is essential to study the motion created by it. The purpose of this research is to study the motion of the neck during speech. This research makes two contributions. First, predicting the motion of the neck around the strap muscles for a given speech. This is achieved by training a program with position data of marker placed on the neck along with its speech analysis data. Second, understanding the basic neck motion during speech. This will help an artist understand how the neck should be animated during speech.</p>

In the Neck of Time

<p>Numerous studies over the past decade have investigated to making human animation as realistic as possible, especially facial animation. Let’s consider facial animation for human speech. Animating a face, to match up to a speech, requires a lot of effort. Most of the process has now been automated to make it easier for the artist to create facial animation along with lip sync based on a speech provided by the user. While these systems concentrate on the mouth and tongue, where articulation of speech takes place, very little effort has gone to understand and to recreate the exact motion of the neck during speech. The neck plays an important role in voice production and hence it is essential to study the motion created by it. The purpose of this research is to study the motion of the neck during speech. This research makes two contributions. First, predicting the motion of the neck around the strap muscles for a given speech. This is achieved by training a program with position data of marker placed on the neck along with its speech analysis data. Second, understanding the basic neck motion during speech. This will help an artist understand how the neck should be animated during speech.</p>

Police and Image Maintenance

Video evidence of use-of-force incidents has changed the conversation about policing in the United States and undermined faith in law enforcement. This chapter presents a critical discourse analysis of police efforts to maintain a positive public image. First, the chapter identifies three rhetorical strategies used by law enforcement in pursuit of image repair. When they cannot control the original creation and framing of an image through embodied gatekeeping, officials negotiate its recontextualization by controlling the narrative, explaining procedures, or appealing to the public’s respect for authority. Many departments are also crafting their own visual messaging, with social media accounts that highlight good deeds caught on badge cams or with lighthearted in-house video productions such as the 2018 Lip Sync Challenge. A close reading of the Lip Sync Challenge finds that its productions tended to reify, rather than dispute, the white, militaristic, hypermasculine culture that police accountability activists condemn.

Identity Politics and Vocal “Whitewashing” in Celebrity Lip-Syncs

The popularity of celebrity lip-syncing in contemporary media culture often lies in the presentation of racial and/or gender-based disjunctions between the connotations of the voice that is heard and the body that is seen. This chapter argues that such racial ventriloquism can be conceived as vocal “whitewashing,” which involves changing a preexisting vocal performance by a person of color into one by a white person. With a focus on two performances by white actors (Paul Rudd and Emma Stone) on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and a contrasting performance by a Black actor (Taraji P. Henson) on Lip Sync Battle, the chapter contextualizes and historicizes the trend in which white celebrities “try on” the voices of singers of color. It demonstrates how the racial ventriloquism involved in such lip-syncs intersects problematically with histories of cultural appropriation in the US film and music industries.

Linguosemiotic peculiarities of the text in TikTok: “the word of others” in the new multimedia reality

The subject of this research is the tendency towards formation of a new semiotic code of entertainment content, observed in the Russian segment of Tiktok social network. The goal of this research is to determine the new trends in recreational segment of the modern social network, the popularity of which depends on the number users&rsquo; likes and reposts. The research material contains the continuous sampling of videos for the period from February to March 2021. The analysis of videos of the Russian-speaking users allows revealing the tendency towards the emergence of a new type of recreational content at the intersection of plagiarism and parody. This implies voice-covering of the fragments of stand-up show in a different context: for example, a fragment from comedy show is lip-synced by a woman while preparing meal. In other words, the authors of such content do not claim to be original, they virtually lip-sync with synchronization of another person's speech (moreover, the TikTok format allows seeing the link to the original soundtrack). At the same time, such content is far from parodic, as there is no mimicking or gesturing of the original. This rather implies the renovation of the open text tradition, which historically accompanies the emergence of a new form of broadcasting information. Such content also indicates common features with the folklore: the author's story&nbsp; is voice-covered by various users repeatedly, like an anecdote or the history of urban folklore. The conclusion is made on the emerging semiotic tendency of the polycode multimedia text, which on the one hand has deep historical roots, while on the other hand is substantiated by the modern technological capabilities and ways of broadcasting information.

Penerapan Teknik Rotoscoping pada Karakter Animasi 2D Pembelajaran Makhraj Huruf Hijaiyah

Indonesia sebagai salah satu negara dengan penduduk muslim terbesar di dunia sangat akrab dengan Bahasa Arab. Penggunaan Bahasa Arab telah menjadi kebutuhan baik untuk beribadah atau penggunaan dalam percakapan sehari-hari. Salah satunya adalah membaca Al-Quran. Tidak seperti bacaan yang lain, membaca Al-Qur’an memiliki ketentuan khusus yang harus diperhatikan. Ilmu tersebut dinamakan sebagai ilmu tajwid. Salah satu cabang dalam ilmu tajwid adalah Makhraj Huruf, yaitu ilmu yang mempelajari tentang tempat-tempat keluarnya huruf pada waktu huruf-huruf itu dibunyikan. Mempelajari makhraj huruf dapat dilakukan dengan berbagai cara baik melalui guru secara langsung atau melalui media-media yang tersedia salah satunya dengan animasi. Untuk menghasilkan animasi yang akurat dilakukan teknik rotoscoping dan membandingkannya dengan teknik Auto Lip-Sync sehingga menghasilkan perbandingan baik secara teknis maupun kualitasnya. Parameter pengukuran secara teknis dinilai menggunakan tiga aspek, yaitu frame yang dihasilkan, waktu rendering yang dibutuhkan, dan ukuran file yang dihasilkan. Dari perbandingan tersebut menghasilkan kesimpulan bahwa penggunaan teknik rotoscoping menghasilkan animasi yang nautral dan akurat. Sesuai dengan respon pengguna, animasi ini dapat digunakan sebagai media pembelajaran pendamping karena tidak bisa mengganti cara konvensional dalam belajar makhraj huruf. Kata Kunci— Animasi 2D, Rotoscoping, Auto Lip-sync, Makhraj Huruf, Huruf Hijaiyah, Indonesia as one of the countries with the largest Muslim population in the world is very familiar with Arabic. The use of Arabic has become a necessity for worship or use in daily conversation. One of them is reading the Quran. Unlike other book, reading the Qur'an has special provisions that must be considered. The knowledge is called tajweed. One branch of tajweed is makhraj huruf, which is the study of the places where letters are released when the letters are sounded. Learning the letters makhraj can be done in various ways either through the teacher directly or through the media available, one of them with animation. To produce an accurate animation rotoscoping technique and compare it with the Auto Lip-Sync technique to produce a comparison both technically and quality. Measurement parameters are technically assessed using three aspects, namely the resulting frame, the required rendering time, and the resulting file size. From these comparisons, it can be concluded that the use of rotoscoping techniques in making animated letters recognition introduces accurate and accurate animations. In accordance with user responses, this animation can be used as a companion of learning because it cannot replace conventional ways of learning letter makhraj.Keywords—2D Animation, Rotoscoping, Auto Lip-Sync, Makhraj Huruf, Hijaiyah Letters