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Blendshapes & skinning order
I want to use blendshapes to create some facial animation, but also use bones to open close the mouth. Can I skin the head then create blendshapes or do I have to create all the blendshapes first then bind the mesh?
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Joints for jaw: One nice thing about opening the mouth with a joint is that it is based on rotations. Blendshapes goes from point a to b in a straight line, unless you ad inbetween targets I guess. Also you can parent stuff like teeth to the joint. If you add an extra joint inbetween the head and jaw joint, and place it say around the forehead, you can use those rotations to bring the jaw in and out. With those bones you get: open/close, in/out, twist and "grind". If you want more flexibility simply add shapes also or maybe even tweak the skin deformations by driving shapes with joint rotations. If you look up the project "Cane Toad" they have a page describing how they rigged all the facial deformations of a character with bones instead of blends.. But that not for mortals to set-up!!
Whew.. many words.
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