Facial Animation Tests

spoooze! · Post by **spoooze!** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 9:45 pm

Hey guys,

I'm putting together a new facial rig and am trying to develop a better bone-based facial animation system. All of this was done via bone. No switch layers were used. Here's the first test:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geLeu83nw-Q

So far, I think it's turning out great! I can get some good facial expressions and emotion into the character. I also like the fact that I can make this guy blink without using switch layers.

Any thoughts?

PARKER · Post by **PARKER** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 3:32 am

Facial movements are good.
I can make my characters blink only by using vector layers, i have always work of that way when i want to make a blink.

spoooze! · Post by **spoooze!** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 5:05 am

Thanks Parker!

Second test, this time with body movements:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8_zClnPKho

dsaenz825 · Post by **dsaenz825** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 5:25 am

I like the movements of both face and body

I would like to see this new bone rig: seems to work

Jeffrey · Post by **Jeffrey** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 1:52 pm

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funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 2:00 pm

you need a completely closed mouth imo - particularly on "*B*ATman"
other than that body movements pretty good, if not a little... camp?

spoooze! · Post by **spoooze!** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 5:16 pm

^Thanks for the feedback guys.

Here's a couple more tests:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Wg_weMZKo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1vSyM4s0hA

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 9:41 am

'april fools' getting much better

kphgraphics · Post by **kphgraphics** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 4:45 am

Looks good, keep up the good work.