Robot face driver

Feed it subtitles. It performs the line, then exports for Blender.

Look

RGB sub-dot grain on black — early pixel-TV. Features light on a dark panel.

Dialogue (SRT)

Load .srt file

No cues loaded — face idles with blinks.

Screen

Aspect

Resolution32

Bubble size0.80

Glow1.4

Unlit LEDs

Unlit-LED toggle applies to the Grain look.

Face color

Eyes

Eyebrows

Mouth

Grain & Smear keep the screen black so it self-mattes on an emission material. Filled lights the whole panel.

Performance

Talk energy1.0

Blink often1.0

Brows lift on “?” and “!”. Mouth shapes are derived from the line's text across its timecode.

Export → Blender

FPS

How to wire it in Blender

1. Add an Image Texture node, open the .webm as a Movie, enable Auto Refresh and set frames to match.
2. Plug Color into an Emission shader (or Principled → Emission), strength 4–20 to taste.
3. For Grain/Smear, black cells emit nothing so the face reads as lit pixels on a dark screen — no alpha needed. Filled lights the whole panel.
4. Match the plane's aspect to the export so bubbles stay round.