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Blip.

Blip gives a robot's screen a talking LED face from a subtitle file. Paste an .srt and the face performs the line — a phoneme-approximate mouth, brows that lift on ? and !, and natural idle blinks between lines. Pick one of five looks, tune it, and export a clean 16:9 MP4 to drop onto your character's screen in Blender or DaVinci Resolve. It runs entirely in your browser — offline, no AI, no account.

01Feed it a subtitle file

Paste or load an .srt

Drop your .srt into the Dialogue box, or Load .srt file. The face lip-syncs each line across its timecode — vowels open, m/b/p close, o/u round — and brows lift on questions and exclamations. Try Sample line to see it in motion.

No subtitles? It still lives

resting face

With nothing loaded, the face idles with a subtle smirk, a smile beat, and blinks — a seamless 6-second loop. Great for a calm, alive robot between lines.

Play & scrub

Use to play and the scrubber to move through the performance. The read-out under the screen shows the current line.

02Pick a look

Grain

pixel-TV

RGB sub-dot grain on black — an early color LED panel. Features light up as pixels on a dark screen; the black self-mattes on a Blender emission material.

Filled

white glass

A soft, backlit white glass panel with the face carved in as darker pixels — a clean modern screen.

Smear

datamosh

The panel filled red with the face smeared into horizontal bands and bright white scan streaks — a glitchy, cinematic look.

Sweep

CRT

A green scan-beam rides up and down, lighting the face as it crosses, with a slow phosphor decay so it never fully fades — an oscilloscope / CRT mood.

Vector

cute robot

Smooth glowing rounded-rect eyes and a simple mouth, no dots — the friendly Anki-Vector / Wall-E-Eve look. Set the eyes cyan for the classic.

03Tune the face

Screen

Pick an aspect, then resolution (how many pixels), bubble size (the dot size), and glow. The unlit-LEDs toggle gives the Grain look faint dark dots so the panel reads as a screen even when off.

Colour

Set the eyes, eyebrows, and mouth colours independently — early-LED green and amber by default. Grain and Smear keep the screen black so the face self-mattes.

Performance

Talk energy sets how much the mouth moves; blink often sets the idle blink rate.

04Export for Blender or your edit

Render an MP4

Click Render & export MP4. Blip renders a clean, flat 16:9 H.264 MP4 with your face fit-centered on black — the margins read as unlit screen / bezel. It imports directly into Blender and DaVinci Resolve.

Into Blender

emission

Add an Image Texture node, open the MP4 as a Movie (enable Auto Refresh), and plug Color into an Emission shader — strength 4–20 to taste. For Grain and Smear, the black cells emit nothing, so the face reads as lit pixels on a dark screen, no alpha needed.

Why 16:9? DaVinci Resolve's decoder can red-error non-16:9 H.264, so every export is normalised to a DaVinci-safe 16:9 frame with the face centered. A pixel-exact, native-aspect texture package is on the way.

·Open Blip

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Paste a subtitle file and go — sign in only if you want to save your work (it also adds you to the weekly Ship Log). No watermark.

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Blip · a talking LED robot face from a subtitle file, exported for Blender.