This week we keeping learnd the facial expression animation, expecialy the mouth shape animate. First, I learn the how to animate :
- Step 1 :Jaw Opening
- Step 2 : Phonemes
- Step 3 : Polish
Jaw opening is find the accent of this sentence you want to animate, and not to leave transition linear which is usually open mouth. and the mouth animate is before 2 frams of audio.
Animate the sounds, not the words: is like when people speak the mouth show the shape and always connected so the shape will connect. when character say “O ” sound, the shape should not be a really circle but a ” round shape with liner line angle.
Workshop: firdays workshop is quite challenging and it aims to show the overlap animate, following action animate and like cloth, hair, creature tails, even wings. But, in my opinion is quite interesting to learn the new skills
I record reference by my self，including lots of idea like gesture or disney face something, but is hard to perform well because I need to show the real emotion and decide which I could animate.
When I aniamte Yulong’s body, I felt like: why his hands is really short!!! ohMG. And also, the audio can not be export into Maya i don’t know why.