Blend Shapes and Skinning

[seven6ty]

Smooth skin. Then, identify where your problem areas are and use blendshapes to clean them up.

[Orion71]

I'm not sure I'm following you.

If I have face blend shapes for speaking and a skeleton with the body binded, do I just bind the base object head and then no matter where it moves it will deform?

[Pshu]

I think what seven6ty ment is that u can use blendshapes to fix some problem areas, for ex. the shoulder area, when deforming with smooth skin... Now for your problem - there is no matter when will u assing the blenshapes - before or after smooth skinning (i think the common worflow is "skinning->blendshapes"), as long as the blendshape is BEFORE the skincluster in the deformation stack... Think of it this way - u get the facial deformation first, then u deform with the skincluster. If the blendshape i AFTER the skincluster it will override the joits deformation. Hope thats helps. :)

Cheers

[Orion71]

That does help, sincerest thanks!!!

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