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Wahooney

01-21-2005, 07:09 AM

I'm in the process of making a character who's eyes are very similar to those in Pixar's Cars. But instead of a rectangular "uni-eye", mine is round.

Does anybody have any ideas on how the eyelids could have been rigged? I've tried Morph Targets (Blend Shapes, whatever's your poison) but all I could do was open and close the eyelids and I see that Cars' characters eyelids can change width as well, something I'd like to do.

Do you think they would have done this with Helpers/Locators, Morph Targets/Blend Shapes or some sort of proprietary... thing?

Thanks.

marktsang

01-21-2005, 11:26 AM

hi,
what are they like in cars? can you give some sort of example of what they are like.

mark

Wahooney

01-21-2005, 01:15 PM

The windshield of the car is like one big eye with two floating irises/pupils. There are two eyelids across the whole windshield but they can change width, depending on where the pupils are.

It'' be best if you get the trailer at http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/cars/large.html and see what I mean.

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