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25-09-2003
, 01:09 PM
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facial phenmones and expressions
I was thinking about using clusters for the eyebrow movement and facial expressions. But they seem limited. I've tried that before, and when i had a vertices belonging to more then one cluster, i had a double transformation effect. i mean... as soon as i moved the cluster, the vertice would jump off the screen.
Does anyone have particular method of doing lip syncs and facial expressions???? Or am i doing something wrong???
Thanks in advance and sorry for bugging you guys so much.
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25-09-2003
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Is the distrotion really bad? Because if you think about a face while talking a lot of points move all over.
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25-09-2003
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Thanks for replying so quickly. The distortion in result of the facial are not extreme, but it does make a lot of difference when it comes to the lip sync. Here are two pictures. The top image is an example of a lip sync, but lets say i also wanted to animate his eyebrow to give him a mean look of some sort. Well when i animate his eyebrow, it distorts his lip sync from an "a" to a "o". Did i do something wrong while making the facial blends???
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25-09-2003
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Its hard to explain a bit.. when I do blendshapes i make all the shapes in there lowest form then i only smooth the main head after all the shapes are done... I found if i dont do it that why i do get some moving around in places i dont wont kinda like your mouth.
You can also try combineing the sliders a bit more to get the shap backand key it once you have back to normal
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19-10-2003
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I'm familiar with this situation. The quick workaround involves copying the blendshapes that you need to adjust to use them as the base model for the adjustments that you will make on the active blendshapes. What you do it take the problem blendshapes to their extreme positions. Then, you template the copied "correct" version and adjust the distorted version to meet up with the correct copy and reposition the verticies. Of course, I work in the orthographic views and wireframe. Doing it that way keeps you from having to delete the blendshapes. Good luck my friend! see ya soon.
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