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.
Lip-sync & Eye-movement Video Tutorial for Autodesk Character Generator: A new video tutorial has been published, demonstrating wiring up lip-sync and eye-movement for Autodesk Character Generator models, using SALSA with RandomEyes. With the release of SALSA with RandomEyes v1.3, the workflow for implementing lip-sync and eye-movement for ACG has been radically… View More
Lip-sync and Eye-movement Asset Updated (Release Notes): Version 1.3 of our automatic lip-synchronization and eye-movement asset, SALSA with RandomEyes, is now available on the Unity… View More
This all new workflow brings 1-click SALSA setup to Mixamo Fuse Characters. We leveraged features in 1.3.3 to create our CM_FuseSync 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 customization. PLEASE NOTE: These… View More
This all new workflow brings 1-click SALSA setup to Autodesk Character Generator Characters, and introduces new default shape groups that produce great looking results. We leveraged new features in 1.3.3 to create our new CM_AutodeskSync script, along with a custom inspector, that provides a unique shape… View More
New Version 1.3.0 Submitted to the Unity Asset Store: Last night, version 1.3.0-final of our 5-star-rated, automatic lip-sync and eye-movement asset (SALSA with RandomEyes) was submitted to the Unity Asset Store. This version brings a better lip-sync and eye-movement experience with Unity… View More
New RandomEyes video tutorial available on our YouTube channel: We've published a new video tutorial covering our automatic eye-movement asset, RandomEyes (included in our automatic lip-sync package, SALSA). The basics of creating eye-movement are… View More
Greatly simplified lip-sync workflow for FUSE Character Creator models using SALSA with RandomEyes Coming soon in the version 1.3.0 update of our Unity asset, the workflow for Mixamo FUSE models is hugely simplified. Automatic lip-sync can now be added to these highly-detailed models… View More
Hey lip-sync automation fans! In celebration of making it into the top-10-paid category for Editor Animation extentions, we wanted to do something spontaneous. This past Friday, we wrapped up our first… View More
SALSA with RandomEyes Manuals Available Online We've converted our lip-sync and eye-movement product manuals to an online format. Our hopes are that this change will better facilitate potential… View More
We've been hard at work on some new 1.3 features, and we thought we'd take a minute to show off a couple. In RandomEyes3D custom shapes, we've replaced the [Custom Shape Count] field with an add button that adds one new custom shape per click, and added a new delete button [X] to every custom shape, so you'll have granular control when managing your custom shapes. We've also added a new auto-link button that will automatically link all available BlendShapes. Just above the button, you'll find a check box that, when… View More