Turning head with blend morphs

[wlan]

Can anyone send me to a link that has the best explanation of how to use this?

P.S. Do you have to move all of the points like for Darth Furby's head turn or can individual pictures of the head be drawn?

[mortician]

Here's a little explanation of how they work.
There are 9 one frame actions, each one representing a pose, as shown in this picture

This actions could be just five, but for a better transformation I decided to add the intermediate (left up, left down, right up, right down).

It could seem difficult, but it's not if you have planned your head first. Draw each pose in a paper, be sure your character still being the same in all poses. Think you gonna do this just one time and with this 5 or more poses you will obtain an infinite range of head poses.
You can make more complex characters using mask, groups, bone movements or whatever. Each thing that can be animated, can be interpreted in an action and, of course, with blend morph.

A tip: actions only transform the movements which have keyframes marked, so be sure you mark the keyframes you want to establish.
Maybe could be an action in which you don't need to move a point, for example, but if you don't mark a keyframe for that point, you will get strange blends, because that point actually won't be moved on the action.
Sorry, it's hard to explain that to me, maybe someone with a better English can do it for me.

tnx very very much dear selgin

[AmigaMan]

Thanks for this Selgin. I just downloaded and viewed your file. Ingenious! I'm going to have to experiment with this.

[Robo]

Thanks for another useful and creative technique.

Could you offer a Mediafire download for the second head turn...I've never had an issue with downloading your files from Mediafire (particles effect, walk cycle with reversed keyframed foot bone lock, boned snake movement) but when I closed a pop-up ad on Sharebee it may have been the cause of a malware infection of my computer.

Please consider continuing to use Mediafire as an option for your downloads because your files are extremely instructive.

[Víctor Paredes]

Thanks for another useful and creative technique.

Could you offer a Mediafire download for the second head turn...I've never had an issue with downloading your files from Mediafire (particles effect, walk cycle with reversed keyframed foot bone lock, boned snake movement) but when I closed a pop-up ad on Sharebee it may have been the cause of a malware infection of my computer.

Please consider continuing to use Mediafire as an option for your downloads because your files are extremely instructive.

Hi Robo, thanks for your kind words and I´m glad you like my techniques (welcome to the forum, too)
I don't remember why I didn't used mediafire for that file, but I remember there was a good reason. I have never had problems with mediafire either. Anyway, I downloaded the file from sharebee and re-uploaded to mediafire, here you have the link
http://www.mediafire.com/?yyu0j2hzd4n

PD: I recommend you to look at my new improved head turn technique, it could be easily complemented by this one and let you a lot more freedom. Checkout on my signature link

[Robo]

Thanks, Selgin, for putting this head turn file on Mediafire.

[Conner_36]

Hey I'm just getting interested in animation and am using debut 8, is there anyway to create the blend morph targets without shelling out for anime pro?

[Víctor Paredes]

Hey I'm just getting interested in animation and am using debut 8, is there anyway to create the blend morph targets without shelling out for anime pro?

Sorry, you can't create targets with debut.

[Conner_36]

Hey I'm just getting interested in animation and am using debut 8, is there anyway to create the blend morph targets without shelling out for anime pro?

Sorry, you can't create targets with debut.

But is there a work-around/solution that doesn't require me to get the pro version?

[jonbo]

There is Conner, but it would be complicated and tedious. You should work with what you got for now until you're familiar with the software.

[Conner_36]

Thats probably sound advice, I have a problem accepting that there are learning curves...

[nextdreamanimation]

How to head turn with smart bone. I added switch layer in the head and it failed. Please advise:)