Fantastic for Halloween animations.

I have been using the Windows version of Crazy Talk 6 for the past two years, mostly to create projections for a local haunted house attraction. Running the PC version via Parallels on the Mac was clunky due to the bizarre (even for Windows standards) user interface the program uses, but it did the job. Now, with a native version available for the Mac, I will never have to boot in to Windows again for this. This new version seems to handle everything the old PC version did, as well as giving access to cutomizing the lip sync animations (something that required the much more expensive pro version of CrazyTalk 6). I have been quite happy with this new version, though some of the user interface items are still a bit quirky. (A dialog box appears, for instance, with no visible way on how to escape it if you do not want ot continue. You have to press the ESCAPE key… An odd choice, for a mouse driven program.) Beyond quirky things like that, its a great fun program. (Though, look at free iOS programs like PhotoSpeak -- it acheives excellent facial animation AUTOMATICALLY, without all the manual wrangling that CrazyTalk uses. For simple animations of a picture to a recorded voice, it does in seconds what it takes a CrazyTalk user quite a bit of time to manually create.)

Allen Huffman about CrazyTalk7