"Patches" the Digital Pumpkin

video "Patches" the Digital Pumpkin

I created Patches the digital pumpkin for Halloween night. The digital character's mouth automatically animates in sync with spoken or other audio. Rear-projected on a giant home-made screen, Patches was a hit with Trick-or-treaters last year!

New characters and abilities being added this year.

Patches is the prototype Pix Puppet.

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Oct 29, 2008. 5:32 PMlimpach says:

Good Job! What you make it in?

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Aug 12, 2010. 12:21 PMreeperdood says:

he sed at the beginning it was in flash

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Aug 12, 2010. 5:46 PMlimpach says:

A dollar short dude and a couple years to late.

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Oct 31, 2009. 10:42 AMmortaldoom780 says:

So cool! Great job!

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Aug 12, 2009. 8:40 PMshkoyach says:

Well. This IS Instructables. How about a Tutorial? Then again. If I knew how to do something as cool as this. I wouldn't give it away for free either.

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Oct 29, 2008. 5:59 PMtmallos (author) says:

The application was created using Flash CS3. Graphics are a set of 2d images I created from a 3d model. You don't really see it in the video, but there are several eye expressions and some other "personality" tools too (eyes can look up, down, left, right, etc.) Mouth reacts to the audio input, other eye styles and various media controlled via keyboard keys. Thanks for the comments! Tim

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