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CookieMon

01-03-2008, 08:29 AM

Hi all. I'm very new to facial animation but I'd like to try that with some of my characters for a school project. I modelled the characters in 3D max 8 and will animate them there as well.

As the title mentions, one of my characters has a moustache and I'm not sure how to go about animating his face because of the moustache. The moustache right now is a separate mesh.

I also have a dog character. Both characters are going to lip synch to a audio recording.

Are there any tutorials on facial animation? I tried to find on google and CGTalk but nothing useful.

Thanks

softocean

01-10-2008, 12:18 AM

There is a great book on facial animation called "stop staring" which demonstrates a few facial animation techniques. Includes blend shapes and spline wire mesh deformation.

CookieMon

01-10-2008, 06:13 AM

Hi softocean. Thanks for the reply and recommendation. Was wondering why no one replied.

Do you know of such tutorials online?

softocean

01-10-2008, 06:10 PM

Heres what I could dig up doing a search on facial animation blend shapes:

http://web.alfredstate.edu/ciat/tutorials/FacialExpressions.htm

http://www.jawa9000.com/technical/SDK-Blendshapes/SDK-Blendshapes.htm

and you'll need shapes to represent the basic phonemes:

http://animation.about.com/od/flashanimationtutorials/a/animationphonem.htm

CookieMon

01-15-2008, 02:34 PM

Thanks dude! I almost forgot about all these. They'll come in handy.

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