Using Rhubarb with OpenToonz

What is Rhubarb?

Rhubarb Lip Sync is a command-line tool that automatically creates 2D mouth animation from voice recordings. It can be used to provide automatic lip-sync capabilities inside OpenToonz, for that to be possible OpenToonz requires Rhubarb to be installed on your machine and appropriately configured in Preferences.
For more information, please visit this page: About Rhubarb

Installing Rhubarb for Windows

Downloading

To download Rhubarb, visit this page: Download Rhubarb
Download the latest Rhubarb-Lip-Sync-x.y.z-Windows.zip file (where ‘x.y.z’ represent the software version number).

Installing

Once you have downloaded the Rhubarb zip archive, extract it in the desired location of your system (C:\ is recomended).

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  • Next, start OpenToonz and open the Preferences window with File → Preferences…

  • Navigate to the Auto Lip-Sync category; at the top you will see a box with the text Rhubarb Path.

  • Insert the path to your extracted Rhubarb folder (if you have used the recommended path, this will be C:\Rhubarb-Lip-Sync-x.y.z-Windows\):

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  • Restart OpenToonz.

Installing Rhubarb for Mac

Downloading

To download Rhubarb, visit this page: Download Rhubarb
Download the latest ** Rhubarb-Lip-Sync-x.y.z-macOS.zip ** file (where ‘x.y.z’ represent the software version number).

Installing

Once you have downloaded the Rhubarb zip archive, extract it in the desired location of your system.

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  • Next, start OpenToonz and open the Preferences window with File → Preferences…

  • Navigate to the Auto Lip-Sync category; at the top you will see a box with the text Rhubarb Path.

  • Insert the path to your extracted Rhubarb folder:

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  • Restart OpenToonz.

Installing Rhubarb for Linux

To install Rhubarb, enter the following command in the shell depending on your distribution.

Arch Linux: # pacman -S extra/rhubarb

Debian GNU/Linux: # apt install rhubarb

Gentoo Linux: # emerge media-audio/rhubarb

Solus: # eopkg install rhubarb

If you are using any other Linux distribution please refer to its documentation or visit the Rhubarb download page and download the latest Rhubarb-Lip-Sync-x.y.z-Linux.zip file (where ‘x.y.z’ represent the software version number).

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  • Start OpenToonz and open the Preferences window with File → Preferences…

  • Navigate to the Auto Lip-Sync category; at the top you will see a box with the text Rhubarb Path.

  • Insert the path /usr/bin, or a path pointing to where you’ve extracted the downloaded zip file.

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  • Restart OpenToonz.