Welcome to Crazy Minnow Studio! We are a small indie software development team primarily focused on game development using the Unity engine. Our pipeline includes: games, game development tools and assets, and video tutorial production. Check out our Unity lip sync asset, SALSA Lip-Sync, available on the Unity Asset Store. Follow our blog for updates on our Unity asset and game development, as well as other happenings in indie game development.
Welcome to theMinnow's Blog. Here you'll find a collection of posts on all manner of minnowy subjects, primarily focused on our Unity assets and indie game development. We'll also be shamelessly plugging our best-selling Unity asset, SALSA with RandomEyes, available on the Unity Asset Store. We have a rapidly growing collection of tutorials and video tutorials you can quickly get to using the Categories shortcuts. To check out our projects, like SALSA with RandomEyes, use the Unity Projects menu item to the left. You can also search for posts using the search bar at the top right. Follow us on Twitter to get our latest updates. Whatever your preference, ENJOY!
We offer 1-click synchronization scripts for many of the mainstream character generation systems, but what do you do if you want to use SALSA with your custom made characters that don't have SALSA spec BlendShapes, or a character system we don't have a 1-click setup script for? This is why we created SalsaSync, a flexible universal free add-on for mapping SALSA and RandomEyes processed values onto your characters BlendShapes and… View More
We're very excited to announce SALSA support for Freedom's Gate characters using our free SalsaSync add-on. This free add-on allows you to create a custom map to link SALSA and RandomEyes output to your Freedom's Gate character. If you're not familiar with Freedom's Gate characters, check the developers website for… View More
We're very excited to announce the public beta release of our new SALSA ActionClips for Cinematic sequencer - SLATE. This free add-on provides essential SALSA and RandomEyes function access to the fantastic cinematic sequencer by Paradox Notion. If you're not familiar with SLATE, check the developers website for more… View More
Use SALSA and Photon Voice for networked, multi-player character lip-synchronization! Tested with Unity 5.5, SALSA 1.4.0, and Photon Voice 1.8 (2017-01-31): ~ Real-Time Lip-Sync with networked voice transmission ~ What's cooler than real-time character lip-sync animations? Networked voice transmissions with real-time lip-sync! This blog post will… View More
New workflow brings 1-click SALSA setup to iClone characters with default shape groups that produce great looking results. We leveraged SALSA features to create our new CM_iCloneSync script, along with a custom inspector, that provides a unique shape group capability that creates a great default setup, while also extending full shape group… View More
This all new workflow brings 1-click SALSA setup to DAZ3D characters, out-of-the-box support for Genesis, Genesis 2, Genesis 3, Genesis 8, Dragon, and Emotiguy character… View More
If you've already purchased SALSA with RandomEyes, we'd like to thank you with this free Playmaker add-on that includes over 40 custom Playmaker Actions. If you haven't already purchased SALSA with RandomEyes, we'd like to sweeten the deal with this free Playmaker add-on that includes… View More