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shunliang
06-01-2008, 07:39 PM
Hello everyone,

Want to ask your sugguestions about blendshapes.

I completely rig a character (in low res), will animate it, then transfer the animation to a hi res (skinned) version of the character.

now the question is, should I create blendshape for the low res, or the high res model? (or two version?)

and what's the proper workflow? I am a little bit frustrated that I bought so many books or training DVD (even from those Maya Master class from Siggraph), none of them mentioned the proper workflow of proper blendshape transfering (if there's a need to transfer..)

any suggestions? I appreciate it.

Sam
Boucha
06-02-2008, 06:17 AM
It is a hard task to construct blendshapes especially if u r going to do two rig version...
There is a deformer called the wrap deformer in maya which is really helpfull for driving hi rez geometry with low rez geometry containing all the blendShapes...In my case I just create all the blendshapes and facial rigging stuffs on the hi rez mesh..(Head is seperated at the beginning stage-splitMerge)...Later, I can just add the hirez head to the low rez animation rig ...Finally the animation is tranferred to the hi rez mesh where the wrap deformer comes into play...
shunliang
06-02-2008, 03:05 PM
Thanks Boucha for the reply, I'll try your method...
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