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Quizboy

11-13-2003, 12:02 PM

Hi, I could use some suggestions for the most efficient solution to animate the mouth on my new character, Milo:

http://www.xinxang.com/images/milo0001.jpg
http://www.xinxang.com/images/milo0002.jpg

I've tossed around a few ideas, like creating some kind of projection, but then I want to know if there's a creative way to animate the displacement map so that the mouth stays slightly indented if seen from the side. Or should I just use blend shapes and color the faces within the mouth region all black?

Quizboy

11-13-2003, 12:03 PM

hmm, why aren't my images showing within the post?

Quizboy

11-14-2003, 10:42 AM

I'm really looking for a way to animate 2D on a 3D surface and then make blend targets for all the poses. For example the expressions on this LEGO puppet:

http://www.xinxang.com/images/legoface.jpg

Obviously I could make blend expressions from the geometry, but I would rather have black paint projected onto the smooth head surface, and then animate the black paint using blend targets.

I also want to do this for Milo, but one step further I want to somehow apply the form of the painted on shape as a guidline for a displacement map, so that the mouth is somewhat indented if you look at it from the side - while it animates.

i'm sure something like this is possible in Maya but I need help with the how...help?

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