FBT:- Animation Tips & Tricks Facial animation is about motion, not just poses: We’re often asked whether there are certain poses that should always be built into face rigs to ensure the character can effectively express a natural range of emotion. The answer is that real emotion is expressed with the movement of the face: a lip quivering when a character is about to cry, the eyes darting around when a person is at a loss for words, or a character pressing their face tightly to avoid laughing at something. Treat these moments like gestures of the face and observe their movement as closely as the poses they contain. Since some poses aren’t possible with certain character designs, you’ll have to cheat sometimes. Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Inc has no nose, but he smells his armpit in the locker room scene at the beginning of the film. He does this by moving his lips up and down while making the sniffing noise. This choice clearly demonstrates that we don’t need specific poses or even anatomy to read facial animation. Without nostrils to flare, we read Mike’s sniffing action with only the mouth movement; you too can be as clear and communicative with your facial animation if you study the movement of the face and not just poses. racfx
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 05:09:42 +0000
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