Facial Blend Shaping (Winter 2008)
The Concept:
I have created my character, RaptorBlood, in 3D. I modeled, textured, and rigged him. Now I want to add emotion to his face. I will use blend shaping to add character to my model! I read Jason Osipa's Stop Staring book for inspiration, sound clips to play with, and
Stage 1: Practice with facial animation(1/29/08)
To get a better understanding of how the tools work, I went in and played around with a sound clip from Jason's book. The model is also Jason's. It's a simple face with a cool interface, and it was really easy to animate this way.
Model and sound clip by Jason Osipa.
Stage 2: Sync Stage(3/01/08)
So now that I've played around with the toy example, I tried to model out some shapes of my own using my character. I decided to take it one step at a time, and here is the Sync stage. It has the wide/narrow and open/closed shapes on one control.
Stage 3: Brow Stage()
Coming soon...
