From Fallout 3 onward, virtually every character is voiced and has a 3D model animated in real time. In Fallout Tactics, interactions are limited to pre-determined responses accompanied by static portraits. This talking head system was abandoned after Fallout 2. Some of the voices for the talking heads were produced by well-known actors, such as Richard Dean Anderson from MacGyver and Stargate SG-1, and Michael Dorn who is known as Worf from Star Trek: The Next Generation. lip files, which match animation frames to phonemes. The animation is lip-synced to the spoken dialogue on the fly, using.

The final talking head is composited from these frames and static pre-rendered backgrounds, then overlaid on the screen.

These heads were typically first created as clay models, digitized using a Faro Space Arm and VertiSketch, touched up in theLightWave (early 3D modelling software), textured with Photoshop, animated, and finally stored as two-dimensional animation frames in. Talking head is a term referring to characters in Fallout and Fallout 2 with digitized speech and animated heads, rather than just text showing beneath a centered image of the character's sprite. Original clay models used for generating talking head models.

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