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Title: does anyone know how to animate facial expressions
Post by: mookiestarhh on April 15, 2009, 11:07:37 pm

How do you do facial expressions? Can you make the character change expressions to angry and happy, sad etc, using anim8or, and how!??

Title: Re: does anyone know how to animate facial expressions
Post by: mak on April 16, 2009, 02:10:27 am

morphs

Title: Re: does anyone know how to animate facial expressions
Post by: Kubajzz on April 16, 2009, 02:39:33 am

Here's a longer version of what mak wrote:

You have to create a basic "neutral" shape of your character's face, then create several morph targets and finally animate the morph targets in the scene editor.
See http://www.anim8or.com/manual/3_object_editor.html#morph_targets (http://www.anim8or.com/manual/3_object_editor.html#morph_targets)

Title: Re: does anyone know how to animate facial expressions
Post by: johnar on April 17, 2009, 12:37:56 am

 This tut will also explain, (i hope),  a basic theory about using morph targets.
 The only difference is that, instead of morphing a cube you would be applying the principles to a face, and its expressions.

 

Title: Re: does anyone know how to animate facial expressions
Post by: mookiestarhh on April 27, 2009, 04:03:07 am

Thanks for that!! ;D, can you use this for speech?

Title: Re: does anyone know how to animate facial expressions
Post by: mak on April 27, 2009, 08:50:09 pm

yes, but to give you a tip; make about 5 or 6 morphs ahh, ooo, eee, oh, vvv, umm, most of these you probable wont want to give a morph value grater than 1. but then youll want a few that you will only move along  one axis at a time(X, Y, Z)
 example; select all the points that make the top lip
then; build>morph targets>new>name it (somthin like Tlip=Y)
move those up along Y axis only.
and move on to X and Z moving each along theyer named axis. then repeet for the botom lip, eyebrows and dont forget the nose. i hope this makes sence and helps.

Title: Re: does anyone know how to animate facial expressions
Post by: hihosilver on April 28, 2009, 12:51:31 am

Use what are called phonemes, which are basically the most basic sounds in speech.  This diagram gives a good representation of how you can use them.  So you would create a different morph for each one, and match it up to the sound clip.
(http://z.about.com/d/animation/1/0/7/2/mouthpositions.jpg)

Title: Re: does anyone know how to animate facial expressions
Post by: mak on May 03, 2009, 04:18:10 pm

how are you doing with this?

Title: Re: does anyone know how to animate facial expressions
Post by: neirao on May 06, 2009, 09:22:14 pm

hi mookiestarhh,

i make a Little tool Software called of "PAPAGA8OR"
for be used with .an8 files.

is for to maker AUTOMATE SENTENCE/SEQUENCE OF MORPHS
AND PHONEMES, use to SPEED ANIMATIONS WITH MORPHS

see in: http://www.anim8or.com/smf/index.php?topic=1692.0

OK!  ;)

Title: Re: does anyone know how to animate facial expressions
Post by: mookiestarhh on May 15, 2009, 10:22:50 am

im just using the anim8or prgram to create bones, and then im making an object, and adding the object to the bones.
Is there an easier way? Or is this a good way to animate anything?

and thank you for that neirao